FALLUJAH HEALTH CRISIS STIFLED BY WEST
"... stomach-turning collection of pictures of babies born with scaly skin, missing and deformed limbs, and horrifying tumors. ... in addition to shocking increases in pediatric cancers, there had also been an 18% reduction in male births. Such a finding is a well-known indication of genetic damage... One weapon system that may use uranium, in some form or another, is the SMAW-NE (Shoulder-fired Multipurpose Assault Weapon – Novel Explosive)... there is a potential connection between this weapons system and the health crisis in Fallujah – and this connection needs to be investigated... More studies need to be done to figure out what is harming those poor children... But first, we must find a way to overcome the stifling silence of governments."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/oct/25/fallujah-iraq-health-crisis-silence
Sunday, October 14, 2012
TOXIC RESIDUES CAUSING BIRTH DEFECTS IN FALLUJAH
"New study links heavy bombing of Falluja... to staggering rise... in miscarriages and birth defects including Anencephaly and Spina Bifida in the years following heavy bombardment of 2003 and 2004... the study found elevated levels of mercury and lead -- an integral part of war ammunition and are extensively used in the making of bullets and bombs... in the children... there is a "footprint of metal in the population" and... "compelling evidence linking the staggering increases in Iraqi birth defects to neuro-toxic metal contamination following the repeated bombardments"... there's a fivefold increase in Fallujah..."
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/10/14-0
"New study links heavy bombing of Falluja... to staggering rise... in miscarriages and birth defects including Anencephaly and Spina Bifida in the years following heavy bombardment of 2003 and 2004... the study found elevated levels of mercury and lead -- an integral part of war ammunition and are extensively used in the making of bullets and bombs... in the children... there is a "footprint of metal in the population" and... "compelling evidence linking the staggering increases in Iraqi birth defects to neuro-toxic metal contamination following the repeated bombardments"... there's a fivefold increase in Fallujah..."
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/10/14-0
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
AL QAEDA TRAINING IN IRAQ, DOUBLED IN SIZE
"... the extremist group has set up training camps for insurgents in the nation's western deserts, seizing on regional instability and government security failures... Iraq has seen a jump in al Qaeda attacks over the last 10 weeks... the insurgent group has more than doubled in numbers from a year ago to about 2,500 fighters..."
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57529084/al-qaeda-in-iraq-is-rebuilding-officials-say/
"... the extremist group has set up training camps for insurgents in the nation's western deserts, seizing on regional instability and government security failures... Iraq has seen a jump in al Qaeda attacks over the last 10 weeks... the insurgent group has more than doubled in numbers from a year ago to about 2,500 fighters..."
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57529084/al-qaeda-in-iraq-is-rebuilding-officials-say/
Tuesday, October 09, 2012
RUSSIA IRAQ'S SECOND LARGEST ARMS SUPPLIER
"Iraq has signed contracts to buy Russian arms worth $4.2bn this year... thus becomes the country's second-biggest arms supplier after the US... Thirty Mi-28 attack helicopters and 42 Pantsir-S1 surface-to-air missile systems are said to be among items being sold.Further discussions are said to be under way for Iraq eventually to buy MiG-29 jets, heavy armoured vehicles and other weaponry..."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19881858>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19881858
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19881858>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19881858