18.05.2005, 23:40
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Zitat:Soaring birth deformities and child cancer rates in IraqIch wünsche den Amerikanern nichts böses, sondern nur dasselbe, was sie anderen weltweit antun.
By James Cogan
Iraqi doctors are making renewed efforts to bring to the world’s attention the growth in birth deformities and cancer rates among the country’s children. The medical crisis is being directly blamed on the widespread use of depleted uranium (DU) munitions by the US and British forces in southern Iraq during the 1991 Gulf War, and the even greater use of DU during the 2003 invasion.
The rate of birth defects, after increasing ten-fold from 11 per 100,000 births in 1989 to 116 per 100,000 in 2001, is soaring further.
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