Fallujah fallout worse than Hiroshima? Iraq report sounds alarm

The use of depleted uranium munition by U.S.-led forces during the war in Iraq is possibly causing cancer and genetic diseases among the local population. Such are the findings of a recent study by a group of researchers. To find out more, RT speaks to the authors of the report, Professor Christopher Busby - scientific secretary of the European Committee on Radiation Risks, and Malak Hamdan - a British-Iraqi scientist.

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• iraq health damage report
• depleted uranium
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• Battle of Fallujah
• US army
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• cancer
• leukemia
• humanitarian disaster
• radiation
• health hazard
• Christopher Busby
• Malak Hamdan

[moonfruit100]

IRAQ IS A TOXIC WASTE LAND ...... DEPLETED URANIUM WILL BE IN IRAQ FOR 4. MILLION YEARS ..... IT IS NOW SPREADING THE WORLD OVER ... IT WILL EFFECT THE D.N.A FOR THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE ON EARTH IN THE FUTURE

[walterofansonia]

I cannot find a copy of "fallujah iraq health damage report" . Does anyone know where a copy may be available.

[enriquepena13]

@HZA2010 you're totally right we the people do control the country but we've gone away from voicing our opinion. we let the government walk all over us. if more people were to ban together we could get more shit done and become a better nation but no one cares and the idiots in power do what they want. i was only 13 when the second war in iraq began but then and now i never favored going to war there was no need for it bush did what he wanted and fucked the world

[anonymouscommentss]

@HZA2010 i agree... but our democracy is so large, and out media so HORRIBLE, americans are like sheep. further, 9/11 was an INSIDE JOB. so our gov terrorizes US. watch this:

vimeo(dot)com/15414341

we are living in a scripted movie, full of LIES. the war on terror has nothing to do with terror (well it dishes out TERROR in occupied countries)... it is imperial. and the USG lies to us, and kills us, just to do its nutty nutty SHIT.

[anonymouscommentss]

@HZA2010 al qaeda is a tool, originally constituted by the US/CIA with help from saudi allies. i agree with the grievances of muslims, but al qaeda, even in its pure form when acting independently, just makes an "excuse" for massive bloddy horrid US interventionism. the arab and muslim world has been effed with by the US (my country), but the best path to resistance is MASSIVE nonviolent public awareness... otherwise, attacks will be used to excuse the decimation of arab/muslim regimes. ~PEACE

[HZA2010]

@enriquepena13 Yes but this kind of things makes me really really angry...how can you people let your goverment do this kind of things? usa is a democratic countrey, yet it behaves like a big terrorist organisation,,,shame on you who allow your goverment to do this kind of things.....you are fighting terrorist you say...yet you are worse than them...shame on you!!!

[enriquepena13]

@HZA2010 why can't we get along? you know we're just like everyone else in the world just trying to live day by day. we may not experience the same shit, but we sure as hell all come from the same human family. i guarantee we have more similarities than differences with the peple in al quida. guarantee

[BartofGod]

@Cytrome I think it said all it needed to. I bet you blame Bush 3 times a week. Obama caused the economy when he got in the argument with Joe the plumber. He made what business was left in America flee in terror. Just like Clinton did to the Rx companies when he threatened Rx reform. Aside from the fact that Obama has made more war than bush. Without congressional approval. While our economy burns he is giving billions to China, and Egypt, and Greece, and Pakistan, and the banks.

[Cytrome]

@BartofGod What a meaningful comment. -_-

[BartofGod]

@Cytrome You are an idiot