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Fallujah Doctors Say Chemicals From U.S. Weapons To Blame For High Levels Of Birth Defects
"While the U.S. military has formally withdrawn from Iraq, doctors and residents of Fallujah are blaming weapons like depleted uranium and white phosphorous used during two devastating U.S. attacks on Fallujah in 2004 for what are being described as 'catastrophic' levels of birth defects and abnormalities," Al Jazeera reports. Samira Alani, a pediatric specialist at Fallujah General Hospital, "told Al Jazeera she had personally logged 677 cases of birth defects since October 2009," the news service notes, adding, "Just eight days later when Al Jazeera visited the city on December 29, that number had already risen to 699."
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