'Depleted uranium baby' in Iraq

Iraq to sue U.S. And Britain over depleted uranium bombs

Posted by Jon King on Feb 01, 2010

Tagged with: babies born with defects, depleted uranium, invasion of iraq, iraq, iraq war, ministry for human rights, new world politics, wijdan mikhail salim

Britain and the US to be sued for their use of depleted uranium bombs in Iraq…

Iraq to sue US, Britain over depleted uranium bombs

Press TV

Iraq’s Ministry for Human Rights will file a lawsuit against Britain and the US over their use of depleted uranium bombs in Iraq, an Iraqi minister says.

Iraq’s Minister of Human Rights, Wijdan Mikhail Salim, told Assabah newspaper that the lawsuit will be launched based on reports from the Iraqi ministries of science and the environment.

According to the reports, during the first year of the US and British invasion of Iraq, both countries had repeatedly used bombs containing depleted uranium.

According to Iraqi military experts, the US and Britain bombed the country with nearly 2,000 tons of depleted uranium bombs during the early years of the Iraq war.

Atomic radiation has increased the number of babies born with defects in the southern provinces of Iraq.

Iraqi doctors say they’ have been struggling to cope with the rise in the number of cancer cases —especially in cities subjected to heavy U-S and British bombardment.

The high rate of birth defects and cancer cases will move in the coming years to the central and northern provinces of Iraq since the radiation may penetrate the soil and water by air.

The ministry will seek compensation for the victims of these bombs.

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source/image: Press TV

Comments

Dave Truman said...

Hmmm. I wonder why you we are never told anything about the environmental impact of DU by the BBC? Is it because the BBC is obsessed with man-made global warming and, therefore does not have the time or space to report this issue? Who in the BBC decides which issues are newsworthy and which are not?

Then again, the mainstream media conveniently forgets to mention that, putting DU to one side for a moment, warfare has its own “carbon footprint”. I wonder about the size of the size of the carbon footprint (actually caused by American special forces) setting fire to the oil wells in Iraq at the end of the first Gulf War. Why is that never mentioned? Could it be to do with the fact that the whole notion of the carbon fittprint had been contrived to make us (the “little people”) feel guilty about our actions? Meanwhile, the real environmental devastation caused by DU goes on unreported – with the exception od brave and independent souls like John.

Well done sir!

Posted at 03:54 on Thursday, February 04, 2010