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http://www.antiwar.com/ips/fadhily.php?articleid=12984
'Special Weapons' Have a Fallout on Babies in Fallujah
by Ali al-Fadhily and Dahr Jamail
FALLUJAH - Babies born in Fallujah are showing illnesses and
deformities on a scale never seen before, doctors and residents say.
The new cases, and the number of deaths among children, have risen
after "special weaponry" was used in the two massive bombing campaigns
in Fallujah in 2004.
After denying it at first, the Pentagon admitted in November 2005 that
white phosphorous, a restricted incendiary weapon, was used a year
earlier in Fallujah.
In addition, depleted uranium (DU) munitions, which contain low-level
radioactive waste, were used heavily in Fallujah. The Pentagon admits
to having used 1,200 tons of DU in Iraq thus far.
Many doctors believe DU to be the cause of a severe increase in the
incidence of cancer in Iraq, as well as among US veterans who served
in the 1991 Gulf War and through the current occupation.
"We saw all the colors of the rainbow coming out of the exploding
American shells and missiles," Ali Sarhan, a 50-year-old teacher who
lived through the two US sieges of 2004 told IPS. "I saw bodies that
turned into bones and coal right after they were exposed to bombs that
we learned later to be phosphorus.
"The most worrying is that many of our women have suffered loss of
their babies, and some had babies born with deformations."
"I had two children who had brain damage from birth," 28-year-old
Hayfa' Shukur told IPS. "My husband has been detained by the Americans
since November 2004 and so I had to take the children around by myself
to hospitals and private clinics. They died. I spent all our savings
and borrowed a considerable amount of money."
Shukur said doctors told her that it was use of the restricted weapons
that caused her children's brain damage and subsequent deaths, "but
none of them had the courage to give me a written report."
"Many babies were born with major congenital malformations," a
pediatric doctor, speaking on condition of anonymity, told IPS. "These
infants include many with heart defects, cleft lip or palate, Down's
syndrome, and limb defects."
The doctor added, "I can say all kinds of problems related to toxic
pollution took place in Fallujah after the November 2004 massacre."
Many doctors speak of similar cases and a similar pattern. The
indications remain anecdotal, in the absence of either a study, or any
available official records.
The Fallujah General Hospital administration was unwilling to give any
statistics on deformed babies, but one doctor volunteered to speak on
condition of anonymity -- for fear of reprisals if seen to be critical
of the administration.
"Maternal exposure to toxins and radioactive material can lead to
miscarriage and frequent abortions, still birth, and congenital
malformation," the doctor told IPS. There have been many such cases,
and the government "did not move to contain the damage, or present any
assistance to the hospital whatsoever.
"These cases need intensive international efforts that provide the
highest and most recent technologies that we will not have here in a
hundred years," he added.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) expressed concern
Mar. 31 about the lack of medical supplies in hospitals in Baghdad and
Basra.
"Hospitals have used up stocks of vital medical items, and require
further supplies to cope with the influx of wounded patients. Access
to water remains a matter of concern in certain areas," the ICRC said
in a statement.
A senior Iraqi health ministry official was quoted as saying Feb. 26
that the health sector is under "great pressure", with scores of
doctors killed, an exodus of medical personnel, poor medical
infrastructure, and shortage of medicines.
"We are experiencing a big shortage of everything," said the official,
"We don't have enough specialist doctors and medicines, and most of
the medical equipment is outdated.
"We used to get many spinal and head injures, but were unable to do
anything as we didn't have enough specialists and medicines," he
added. "Intravenous fluid, which is a simple thing, is not available
all the time." He said no new hospitals had been built since 1986.
Iraqi Health Minister Salih al-Hassnawi highlighted the shortage of
medicines at a press conference in Arbil in the Kurdistan region in
the north Feb. 22. "The Iraqi Health Ministry is suffering from an
acute shortage of medicines...We have decided to import medicines
immediately to meet the needs."
He said the 2008 health budget meant that total expenditure on
medicines, medical equipment and ambulances would amount to an average
of 22 dollars per citizen.
But this is too late for the unknown number of babies and their
families who bore the consequences of the earlier devastation. And it
is too little to cover the special needs of babies who survived with
deformations.
(Inter Press Service)

 malformation," the doctor told IPS.
Questo lo si poteva leggere in un qualsiasi libro di medicina.
-Stefano

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