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Robert Fisk: The Children of Fallujah - the hospital of horrors

In reply to one posted 2010 - "Beyond Treason (2005)"

Special Report day two: Stillbirths, disabilities, deformities too distressing
to describe - what lies behind the torments in Fallujah General Hospital?

Robert Fisk
@indyvoices
Wednesday 25 April 2012 23:00 BST

[Slideshow of 2] - Robert Fisk: The Children of Fallujah - the hospital of horrors

Dr Aiman Qeis cares for babies at Fallujah General Hospital, which has a high rate of children born with congenital defects

The pictures flash up on a screen on an upper floor of the Fallujah General Hospital. And all at once, Nadhem Shokr al-Hadidi's administration office becomes a little chamber of horrors. A baby with a hugely deformed mouth. A child with a defect of the spinal cord, material from the spine outside the body. A baby with a terrible, vast Cyclopean eye. Another baby with only half a head, stillborn like the rest, date of birth 17 June, 2009. Yet another picture flicks onto the screen: date of birth 6 July 2009, it shows a tiny child with half a right arm, no left leg, no genitalia.

"We see this all the time now," Al-Hadidi says,...

[...]

Now you have an Arab country which has a higher number of deformities or cancers than Europe and you need a proper epidemiological study. I'm sure the Americans used weapons that caused these deformities. But now you have a goodness-knows-what government in Iraq and no study. It's very easy to avoid to doing anything – except for some sympathetic crazy professor like me in London to try and achieve something."

In al-Hadidi's office, there are now photographs which defy words. How can you even begin to describe a dead baby with just one leg and a head four times the size of its body?

Tomorrow: Sayef Ala'a, the five-year-old Fallujah child with no hearing in his left ear

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-the-children-of-fallujah-the-hospital-of-horrors-7679168.html

See also:

Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal. Bush Convicted in Absentia:
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=87384926

Why would you continue to listen to the same kind of SOB's that brought
us leaded gasoline, roundup, depleted uranium bullets and cigarettes.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=118283117

Yes, it was after the 1995 massacre in Srebrenica. ... One of them has continuing serious health problems, related
to exposure to something toxic, probably depleted uranium shell residue, during Operation Desert Storm.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=119893463

The Afghan Commandos Trying To Beat Back The Taliban (HBO)
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=138304406

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The Pentagon said it wouldn’t use depleted uranium rounds against ISIS. Months later, it did — thousands of times.

By Thomas Gibbons-Neff February 16, 2017


An A-10 Thunderbolt II. (Justin Connaher/ U.S. Air Force)

Months after the Pentagon said it wouldn’t use a controversial type of armor-piercing ammunition that has been blamed for long-term health complications,
U.S. aircraft fired thousands of the rounds during two high-profile air raids in Syria in November 2015, the Pentagon acknowledged Wednesday.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2017/02/16/the-pentagon-said-it-wouldnt-use-depleted-uranium-rounds-against-isis-months-later-it-did-5265-times/?utm_term=.e46ee3bf9e79