U.S. CANNOT ACCOUNT FOR HOW IT SPENT $2.6 BILLION OF IRAQI FUNDS
"... the Department of Defense cannot account for how it spent $2.6 billion that belonged to the Iraqi government... An audit of a $9.1 billion fund of Iraqi oil proceeds showed that most American military agencies entrusted with spending the money on reconstruction projects failed to adhere to U.S. rules on how such money must be tracked and spent... (Previously) The inspector general in 2005 criticized the CPA's management of an $8.8 billion fund that belonged to the Iraqi government. A criminal probe conducted by the inspector general then led to the conviction of eight U.S. officials on bribery, fraud and money-laundering charges..."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/26/AR2010072605535.html?hpid=topnews
Saturday, July 24, 2010
TOXIC LEGACY IN FALLUJAH WORSE THAN HIROSHIMA
U.S. assaulted city in 2004 using depleted uranium and white phosphorous
"Dramatic increases in infant mortality, cancer and leukaemia in the Iraqi city of Fallujah, which was bombarded by US Marines in 2004, exceed those reported by survivors of the atomic bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945... a four-fold increase in all cancers and a 12-fold increase in childhood cancer in under-14s... a 38-fold increase in leukaemia, a ten-fold increase in female breast cancer and significant increases in lymphoma and brain tumours in adults. Infant mortality in the city is more than four times higher than in neighbouring Jordan and eight times higher than in Kuwait... overwhelmed by the number of babies with serious birth defects, ranging from a girl born with two heads to paralysis of the lower limbs..."
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/toxic-legacy-of-us-assault-on-fallujah-worse-than-hiroshima-2034065.html
U.S. assaulted city in 2004 using depleted uranium and white phosphorous
"Dramatic increases in infant mortality, cancer and leukaemia in the Iraqi city of Fallujah, which was bombarded by US Marines in 2004, exceed those reported by survivors of the atomic bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945... a four-fold increase in all cancers and a 12-fold increase in childhood cancer in under-14s... a 38-fold increase in leukaemia, a ten-fold increase in female breast cancer and significant increases in lymphoma and brain tumours in adults. Infant mortality in the city is more than four times higher than in neighbouring Jordan and eight times higher than in Kuwait... overwhelmed by the number of babies with serious birth defects, ranging from a girl born with two heads to paralysis of the lower limbs..."
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/toxic-legacy-of-us-assault-on-fallujah-worse-than-hiroshima-2034065.html
