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Iraq to Sue Over DU
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Iraq to sue US, Britain over depleted uranium bombs
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.
MGH/JG/DT
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Posted by Denise Nichols on Feb 3 2010, With 0 Reads, Filed under Health. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. Both comments and pings are currently closed.
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In return, America needs to sue Iraq to recover the costs of giving them freedom.
Freedom to have mutant babies for generations to come? Nice, the gift that keeps giving. By the way, our veterans who were also exposed to DU are coming home and having mutant babies too. From USSA with Love.
I even wrote to the Iraqi Embassy. They never replied. What proof, beyond a propaganda piece in Iranian State TV (PressTV) is that this suit even exists? Honestly, forcing all of this out into in the open where discovery would apply would get all the lies and liars on the table and enable them to be fully exposed to the world. I frankly welcome the suit because the house of cards that former nurse Nichols is pushing will fall.
If “Iraq (sues) US, Britain over depleted uranium bombs” – they will have started off with a false premise since there is no such thing as a depleted uranium bomb. DU is not used in bombs. It was used (it probably has not been fired anywhere in world since April 2003 drive on Baghdad) as kinetic energy penetrators to kill tanks. DU does not explode and it is not found in shells either since a shell is hollow and filled with explosive.