Worse than Hiroshima
Press release: Genetic damage and health in Fallujah Iraq worse than Hiroshima
Results of a population-based epidemiological study organized by Malak Hamdan and Chris Busby are published tomorrow in the International Journal of Environmental Studies and Public Health (IJERPH) based in Basle, Switzerland. They show increases in cancer, leukemia and infant mortality and perturbations of the normal human population birth sex ratio significantly greater than those reported for the survivors of the A-Bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.
Results of a survey in Jan/Feb 2010 of 711 houses and more than 4000 individuals in Fallujah show that in the five years following the 2004 attacks by USA-led forces there has been a 4-fold increase in all cancer. Interestingly, the spectrum of cancer is similar to that in the Hiroshima survivors who were exposed to ionizing radiation from the bomb and uranium in the fallout. By comparing the sample population rates to the cancer rates in Egypt and Jordan, researchers found there has been a 38-fold increase in leukemia (20 cases) almost a 10-fold increase in female breast cancer (12 cases) and significant increases in lymphoma and brain tumours in adults.
Based on 16 cases in the 5-year period, the 12-fold increases in childhood cancer in those aged 0-14 were particularly marked. The cancer and leukemia increases were all in younger people than would normally be expected. Infant mortality was found to be 80 per 1000 births which compares with a value of 19 in Egypt, 17 in Jordan and 9.7 in Kuwait. An important result is that the sex-ratio, which in normal populations is always 1050 boys born per 1000 girls was seriously reduced in the group born immediately after 2005, one year after the conflict: in this group the sex ratio was 860.
Birth sex ratio is a well known indicator of genetic damage, the reduction in boy births being due to the fact that girls have a redundant X-chromosome and can therefore afford to lose one though genetic damage; boys do not. Sex ratio was similarly reduced in the Hiroshima survivors children. "This is an extraordinary and alarming result" said Dr Busby, who is visiting Professor in the University of Ulster and Scientific Director of Green Audit, an independent environmental research organization. He added: "To produce an effect like this, some very major mutagenic exposure must have occurred in 2004 when the attacks happened. We need urgently to find out what the agent was. Although many suspect Uranium, we cannot be certain without further research and independent analysis of samples from the area." Malak Hamdan, who organized the project said: " I am so glad that we have been able to obtain proper scientific confirmation of all the anecdotal evidence of cancer and congenital birth defects. Maybe now the international community will wake up".
Contact: Chris Busby (France) +44 7989 428833
Malak Hamdan (London) +44 7903 153163
Richard Bramhall: +44 1597 825771
Chris Busby, Malak Hamdan and Entesar Ariabi, Cancer, Infant Mortality and Birth Sex-Ratio in Fallujah, Iraq 2005–2009 Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2010, 7, 1-x; doi:10.3390/ijerph707000x
Source:
http://www.nonuclear.se/busby-et-al-fallujah-iraq2005-2009
http://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/7/7/2828/
Here are what Haaretz had to say regarding 2 issues, 1st giving air corridor for Iran strike , 2nd downgrading an arms deal between the US and KSA (30$ Billion), perhaps you can explain how a tiny country like Israel can dictate the US foreign policy in ME.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/saudi-arabia-we-will-not-give-israel-air-corridor-for-iran-strike-1.295672
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/report-u-s-downgrades-saudi-arms-deal-over-israeli-concerns-1.306886
You are ofcourse correct about Iran. However, most Arab leaders were against the first invasion of Iraq. They had to tow the line though and support the Americans when required..
You got that right "Ice Maiden" it's easy to lay all the blame at America's door, but the critics willfully ignore the fact that a lot of Arab leaders were for the invasion of Iraq (part1&2), American crossed into Iraq by the sea, land and air territories of other Arab countries with their full support and consent.
And right now the majority of Arab leaders are for the bombing/invasion of Iran. Even Saudi Arabia has granted over flight rights to Israel. If you can't stop your leaders, stop the whimpering. America is the world cop, with cop cases the guilty are never happy.
Thank you for sharing, I think similar cases/symptoms were reported as a result of NATO bombing in Balkan.
A pity that the UN or other independent agencies have not taken a more active role in this..
The recent article from The Guardian is worth reading ..
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/22/iraq-nuclear-contaminated-sites
We are not really commenting on the study. For one the sample size was small so I would like to see it repeated before conclusions are drawn. Second they have no idea what gave them the results they have seen so far. So we do not know who is to blame if the evidence supports it
Well there have been many threads about Iraq so hard to remember all of them :o)
i was waiting for you, as i've noticed that you are very quick to pick old memories, but this time u didn't :)
Wow Dot.com I was fully charged in that thread. I didn't even remember :P
simply
I'll repeat again Thank You Civilized West for all these blessing.
http://www.qatarliving.com/node/941055
btw, this was discussed 5 months ago.
Abu....UFC in your avatar....sent you a pm.
Sorry for the hijack.
The West learnt its lesson after the 70s and will not allow itself to be "held to ransom" again..
Have a read of this article ..
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,450997-1,00.html
Competition is what develops the skills. If these countries stop giving their citizens everything on a golden platter, and rather make them work for it, they will eventually have the "skilled" manpower that is so vital for the growth of a nation. :)
Yes, they need to develop themselves, they got the resources and money, but not the skilled manpower.
US and it's allies invaded Iraq?
Is US or the West the only countries that food technology, medicine and clothing?
The Arabs can look for alternative sources, or develop them if they have to. Necessity is the mother of all inventions. They have the money.
What you have suggested has happened only once in the past,in 1973, the Saudi king Faisal had the fortitude and said "there is no harm in going back to dates and milk" , so think about it logically, if Arabs cut the supply, then what ? who will supply Arabs with food,technology,medicine,clothings...etc , the whole ME is just a big consumer market. The Arab nationalism idea has died in the early 70s.
This war was engineered by the neocons ,paid by the tax payers and executed by innocent American lives.
Invasion: An invasion is a military offensive consisting of all, or large parts of the armed forces of one geopolitical entity aggressively entering territory controlled by another such entity, generally with the objective of either conquering, liberating or re-establishing control or authority over a territory, forcing the partition of a country, altering the established government or gaining concessions from said government, or a combination thereof. An invasion can be the cause of a war, be a part of a larger strategy to end a war, or it can constitute an entire war in itself. Due to the large scale of the operations associated with invasions, they are usually strategic in planning and execution.
War: War is a behaviour pattern exhibited by many primate species[1] including humans, and also found in many ant species.[2][3][4] The primary feature of this behaviour pattern is a certain state of organized violent conflict that is engaged in between two or more separate social entities. Such a conflict is always an attempt at altering either the psychological hierarchy or the material hierarchy of domination or equality between two or more groups. In all cases, at least one participant (group) in the conflict perceives the need to either psychologically or materially dominate the other participant. Amongst humans, the perceived need for domination often arises from the belief that either an ideology is so incompatible, or a resource is so scarce, as to threaten the fundamental existence of the one group experiencing the need to dominate the other group. Leaders will sometimes enter into a war under the pretext that their actions are primarily defensive, however when viewed objectively, their actions may more closely resemble a form of unprovoked, unwarranted, or disproportionate aggression.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War
and war?
Abu, hit list? C'mon
These countries control the oil supply, effectively speaking they had the power in their hands to stop this invasion. But they didn't. And now they sit back, point fingers and say...They did it, it's all their fault".
Each "country"... I would each monarch wanted to protect his crown..is what I would say.
Double Post
Lol Khattak, I am in a good mood today :)
No it won't have stopped US but the scale of the "war" would have been greater. The only reason I can think of for going to war is showing Uncle Sam's muscle and it would have been better for them if they could showcase it by taking on several countries at the same time.
WK... You sound like a Philosopher :P
I am going on a tangent here...but all these posts about how US "attacked" Iraq. Let me put in my two cents... if these so called Arab brothers had banded together and told US... If you attack Iraq, we ain't giving you a even a drop of oil, does anyone think, this war could have been avoided.
The war machine, the planes in the air, the destroyers in the sea, all need something to run it, right?
I don't support what happened in Iraq, all this talk by the Arab countries, pointing fingers at a third party and washing their hands off can be quite......
This was an invasion, not a war.
whatsoever after a war, then they must be living in a different world!
Good to see the progress. We have become better murderers over the past 65 years.
This is very disturbing,some children who were born in Fallujah during the most heavy fighting have some sort of deformity.
jeroenb...two wrongs dont make one right...or does it?
And who was responsible for the chemical attacks on Falabja were 5000 were killed and many more got badly wounded?
MR_Qatar The Americans who you call terrorists were one of the first to help out your country during the recent floods a little respect wouldn't hurt.
Happy Eid.
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Thats alarming.
US troops are terrorist..
You are right, I donno who is gonna cover their medical bills !
The International Community does not care because it's in Iraq and not on our doorstep..