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cancer |
"I hope our government will support a scientific
study by the World Health Organization of the effects of depleted
uranium (DU) and other potential pollutants on Iraqi civilians
-- who are suffering very high rates of leukemia. Not only could
work like this engage representatives of the international community
and Iraqis in constructive work together; it also could yield
health benefits for American veterans of the Gulf War as well
as Iraqi civilians." U.S.
Rep. Tony Hall, D-Ohio April 24, 2000 |
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UN sanctions |
"I fear that no matter how quickly sanctions
are lifted, the future of
most of the people I met in Iraq will be bleak. That is because
its
children are in bad shape, with a quarter of them underweight
and one
in 10 wasting away because of hunger and disease. The leading
cause of
childhood death, diarrhea, is 11 times more prevalent in Iraq
than
elsewhere - and while polio has been wiped out throughout the
Mideast,
it has returned to plague Iraq's people. Schools and water systems
--
the infrastructure any nation's future depends upon -- are decrepit
and hospitals lack basic medicine and equipment. Ordinary civilians
have exhausted their resources and their health trying to survive
on
$2-6 per month. U.S.
Rep. Tony Hall, D-Ohio April 24, 2000 |
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cancer |
"In 1991, the UK Atomic Energy Authority
warned that, if particles from merely 8 per cent of the DU used
in the Gulf were inhaled, there could be "300,000 potential
deaths... "The dust carries death," Dr Jawad Al-Ali,
a cancer specialist and member of Britain's Royal College of
Physicians, told me. "Our own studies indicate that more
than 40 per cent of the population in this area will get cancer
in five years' time to begin with, then long afterwards. Most
of my own family now have cancer, and we have no history of
the disease. It has spread to the medical staff of this hospital.
We are living through another Hiroshima."". John
Pilger March 2001 |
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UN sanctions |
"The Sanctions
Committee in New York has blocked or delayed a range of cancer
diagnostic equipment and drugs, even painkillers. Professor
Karol Sikora, as chief of the cancer programme of the World
Health Organisation, wrote in the British Medical Journal: "Requested
radiotherapy equipment, chemotherapy drugs and analgesics are
consistently blocked by United States and British advisers [to
the Sanctions Committee]. There
seems to be a rather ludicrous notion that such agents could
be converted into chemical or other weapons."" John
Pilger March 2001 |
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cancer |
" the Americans are deploying what Professor
Doug Rokke, a former US Army physicist, calls "a form of
nuclear weapon that contaminates everything and everyone"...Today,
each round fired by US tanks contains 4,500 grams of solid uranium,
whose particles, breathed or ingested, can cause cancer."
John Pilger
March 26, 2003 |
iraqi
health