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WikiLeaks Releases Over 1,000 Clinton Iraq War Emails

TheWake UpCall 0 Clinton, Email, Iraq, Wikileaks 11:52 PM

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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br>WikiLeaks has released 1,258 of Hillary Clinton’s emails in relation to the Iraq war, preceding the British Chilcot report on the conflict set to be released later this week.<br><br>WikiLeaks tweeted a link to their <a href="https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/?q=iraq%7Cbaghdad%7Cbasra%7Cmosoul&mfrom=&mto=&title=&notitle=&date_from=&date_to=&nofrom=&noto=&count=50&sort=0#searchresult">email archive</a> from their official Twitter page today. Wikileaks appears to have a substantial amount of information on Clinton, having already released a <a href="https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/">large archive of Clinton’s emails</a> earlier in the year. Breitbart has previously reported on <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/06/08/julian-assange-says-google-directly-engaged-clinton-campaign/">Julian Assange’s claims</a> that Google is complicit in the managing of Clintons online media campaign.</span><div>
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WikiLeaks Releases Over 1,000 Clinton Iraq War Emails

WikiLeaks has released 1,258 of Hillary Clinton’s emails in relation to the Iraq war, preceding the British Chilcot report on the conflict ...

20,000 foreigners have joined ISIS in Iraq, Syria

TheWake UpCall 0 Iraq, ISIS, Syria 10:16 AM

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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some 20,000 foreign fighters – including at least 3,400 Westerners – have joined the Islamic State's cause and are now fighting on the frontline in Iraq and Syria, according to estimates in a number of testimonies by American intelligence officials.</span><div>
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20,000 foreigners have joined ISIS in Iraq, Syria

Some 20,000 foreign fighters – including at least 3,400 Westerners – have joined the Islamic State's cause and are now fighting on the ...

Pentagon Silent on Current Use of Depleted Uranium in Iraq

TheWake UpCall 0 Depleted Uranium, Iraq, Pentagon, US 10:35 AM

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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br>Back in October, I <a href="http://davidswanson.org/node/4568">reported</a> that, "A type of airplane, the A-10, deployed this month to the Middle East by the U.S. Air National Guard's 122nd Fighter Wing, is responsible for more Depleted Uranium (DU) contamination than any other platform, according to the International Coalition to Ban Uranium Weapons (ICBUW). . . . Pentagon spokesman Mark Wright told me, 'There is no prohibition against the use of Depleted Uranium rounds, and the [U.S. military] does make use of them. The use of DU in armor-piercing munitions allows enemy tanks to be more easily destroyed.'"</span><div>
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Pentagon Silent on Current Use of Depleted Uranium in Iraq

Back in October, I reported that, "A type of airplane, the A-10, deployed this month to the Middle East by the U.S. Air National Guar...

Obama Withholding 2,100 Iraq and Afghanistan Torture Photos

TheWake UpCall 0 Afghanistan, Iraq, Obama 11:26 AM

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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Obama Administration has been given a December deadline to explain why it has withheld more than 2,000 graphic images depicting Iraqi and Afghanistan detainees being tortured by the US military.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A federal judge has ordered the US government to explain, one photograph at a time, why it blocked the images from being released to the public.</span></div>
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Obama Withholding 2,100 Iraq and Afghanistan Torture Photos

"The American people are entitled to know what took place in US detention centres" By Ewan Palmer The Obama Administration ...

The Fall of Iraq - What You're Not Being Told

TheWake UpCall 0 Iraq 7:16 PM

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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Iraq is descending into chaos, but not for the reasons you're being fed by the politicians and the mainstream media.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In June of 2014 the world watched in shock as an Islamic militant group operating under the name of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (or ISIS), took control of Mosul, Baiji and Tikrit and began pushing south to Baghdad. Fallujah has been under their control since January.</span></div>
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The Fall of Iraq - What You're Not Being Told

Iraq is descending into chaos, but not for the reasons you're being fed by the politicians and the mainstream media. In June ...

ISIS Jihadists Release Shocking Photos Documenting Slaying Of 1700 Iraqi Soldiers

TheWake UpCall 0 Iraq, JIHADISTS 5:04 PM

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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Several days ago we showed "<a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-06-13/gruesome-footage-isis-atrocities-reveals-al-qaeda-jihadists-will-stop-nothing" style="text-decoration: none;">gruesome" footage </a>of the ISIS jihadists as they engage all opposing forces with unspeakable brutality, clearly designed to demoralize any resistance in their remarkable blitzkrieg which has so far allowed them to steamroll virtually unopposed from northern Iraq all the way to towns located some 50 miles from Baghdad.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Just what ISIS/ISIL's Baghdad strategy is remains unclear. According to Reuters, "in Baghdad on Sunday, a suicide attacker detonated explosives in a vest he was wearing, killing at least nine people and wounding 20 in a crowded street in the centre of the capital, police and medical sources said. At least six people were killed, including three soldiers and three volunteers, when four mortars landed at a recruiting centre in Khlais, 50 km (30 miles) north of Baghdad."</span></div>
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ISIS Jihadists Release Shocking Photos Documenting Slaying Of 1700 Iraqi Soldiers

Several days ago we showed " gruesome" footage of the ISIS jihadists as they engage all opposing forces with unspeakable brutal...

Depleted uranium used by US forces blamed for birth defects and cancer in Iraq

TheWake UpCall 0 Iraq, uranium 5:45 AM

<span style="background-color: white;">Russia Today — July 22, 2013 </span><br />
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<div style="border: none; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; border: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Cancer is more common than flu in the Iraqi city of Najaf, about 160 km south of Baghdad, one local doctor told RT. After the start of the war rates of leukemia and birth defects “rose dramatically” due to use of depleted uranium by the US military.</span></div><div style="border: none; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; border: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></div><div style="border: none; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; border: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Every single residential street that we’ve visited in several neighborhoods, we found multiple cases of families whose children were ill, families who had lost children who had to bury children, families who had many relatives who were suffering from cancer,”</em> RT correspondent Lucy Kafanov said.</span></div><div style="border: none; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">

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He says the only source of uranium in Iraq was the use by the American-led forces of uranium weapons.</span></div><div style="border: none; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; border: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></div><div style="border: none; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; border: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“We went to Fallujah and we found the levels of cancer. We looked at the parents of children with congenital malformation and we did analysis of their hair to see what was inside their hair that might be genotoxic, that might be the sort of thing that can cause congenital malformation. The only thing that we found was uranium. We found uranium in the mothers of the children with congenital malformations,”</em> he told RT.</span></div><div style="border: none; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; border: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></div><div style="border: none; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; border: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Depleted-uranium-severe-body-deformity_jpg-1.jpg" style="border: none; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-66400" height="190" src="http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Depleted-uranium-severe-body-deformity_jpg-1-300x190.jpg" style="border: none; display: inline; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px; max-width: 600px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Depleted-uranium-severe-body-deformity. Click to enlarge" width="300" /></a>From 2009 onwards, credible media reports from the city of Fallujah, which had been the scene of intense urban warfare in 2004, brought reports of high rates of congenital birth defects in the city to the world’s attention. At least two platforms that utilize DU munitions were employed in ‘Phantom Fury’, the most intense operation since the official end of major combat operations in 2003.</span></div><div style="border: none; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; border: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></div><div style="border: none; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; border: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">At least 440,000kg of DU was used in Iraq, some ending up as DU dust, some as corroding penetrators and leaving a still unknown number of sites with contaminated vehicles, buildings and soils, according to a Dutch report.</span></div><div style="border: none; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; border: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></div><div style="border: none; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; border: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“The exposure risks to civilians from the use of DU in populated areas have been compounded by the US’s persistent refusal to release the data that could have helped facilitate the effective assessment and clearance work, providing that the Iraqi government had the capacity and finances to undertake it. Taken as a whole, these issues cast serious doubts over the legitimacy of the use of DU,”</em> the Dutch report says.</span></div><div style="border: none; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; border: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></div><div style="border: none; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; border: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Aside from DU’s potential impact on physical health, it is highly likely that its use and presence in Iraq has led to heightened fear and anxiety, which in turn may have created a measureable psycho-social impact, the authors of the report note.</span></div><div style="border: none; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; border: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></div><div style="border: none; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; border: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Another report, funded by the Norwegian government, has recently found that depleted uranium was used against civilian targets in populated areas in Iraq, in 2003. It emphasizes a lack of transparency by coalition forces over the use of depleted uranium, but also describes one incident in Najaf where a Bradley armored fighting vehicle fired 305 depleted uranium rounds in a single engagement.</span></div><div style="border: none; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; border: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></div><div style="border: none; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; border: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“We know that uranium is genotoxic, that it causes these levels of genetic damage, and because of that it also causes cancer. The only source of uranium was the use by the American-led forces of uranium weapons. Not only depleted uranium weapons, but as we later found out slightly enriched uranium weapons, which we believe they were using in order to cover their tracks. So, I think we have more or less proved that these effects are a result of the use during the two wars of uranium, and the particles that the uranium weapons produced,”</em> Dr. Busby explained.</span></div><div style="border: none; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; border: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></div><div style="border: none; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; border: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Depleted uranium weapons are known for the ability to penetrate through walls and tanks. One of its most dangerous “side effects” is that when the substance vaporizes, it generates dust inhaled by individuals.</span></div><div style="border: none; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; border: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></div><div style="border: none; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; border: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“After the start of the Iraq war, rates of cancer, leukemia and birth defects rose dramatically in Najaf. The areas affected by American attacks saw the biggest increases. We believe it’s because of the’ illegal’ weapons like depleted uranium that were used by the Americans. When you visit the hospital here you see that cancer is more common than the flu,”</em> Dr. Sundus Nsaif told RT.</span></div><div style="border: none; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; border: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></div><div style="border: none; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; border: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/DU-deformity.bmp" style="border: none; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="alignright size-full wp-image-66401" height="275" src="http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/DU-deformity.bmp" style="border: none; display: inline; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px; max-width: 600px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="DU deformity. Click to enlarge" width="276" /></a>The Pentagon and the UN estimate that US and British forces used 1,100 to 2,200 tons of armor-piercing shells made of depleted uranium during attacks in Iraq in March and April, far more than the [officially] estimated 375 tons used in the 1991 Gulf War, according to a report published in Seattle Post-Intelligencer in 2003.</span></div><div style="border: none; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; border: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></div><div style="border: none; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; border: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In cities like Basra and Fallujah, where American and British forces used heavy munitions at the start of the war, it is estimated that over half of all babies conceived after the start of the war were born with heart defects. According to a study published in the Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, between October 1994 and October 1995 the number of birth defects per 1,000 live births in Al Basrah Maternity Hospital was 1.37. In 2003, the number of birth defects in the same hospital was 23 per 1,000 livebirths. Within less than a decade, the occurrence of congenital birth defects increased 17-fold.</span></div><div style="border: none; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; border: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></div><div style="border: none; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; border: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The international community has voiced concerns over the actual effects of the use of such weapons. World Health Organization (WHO) and the Ministry of Health (MOH) in Iraq are expected to publish a report on this in the near future. But so far it has been delayed. According to WHO, the report will not examine the link between the prevalence of birth defects and use of depleted uranium (DU) munitions used during the war and occupation in Iraq.</span></div><div style="border: none; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; border: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></div><div style="border: none; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; border: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Since the issue of associating congenital birth defects with exposure to depleted uranium has not been included in the scope of this particular study, establishing a link between the congenital birth defects prevalence and exposure to depleted uranium would require further research,”</em> WHO states.</span></div><div style="border: none; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; border: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></div><div style="border: none; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; border: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“There haven’t been large-scale studies done. We haven’t seen big teams of international doctors, for example, going in and looking at different cities, comparing the number of birth defect cases between the different cities. There are really no reliable statistics for birth defects in Iraq, so nobody can really say exactly how big this problem is,”</em> Kafanov says.</span></div><div style="border: none; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; border: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></div><div style="border: none; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; border: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">She witnessed a complete disregard by the authorities to the sufferings of the local residents. Few sites have been formally identified by the Iraqi authorities as being contaminated by DU, even though two contaminated tanks were found in 2005, according to a Dutch report.</span></div><div style="border: none; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; border: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></div><div style="border: none; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; border: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“While these people can’t necessarily prove that it was depleted uranium or the causes of these diseases, this is something that they say has risen dramatically in the years since the invasion,”</em> Kafanov said, adding that feeling <em style="border: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“completely abandoned, these are impoverished people who are fighting this massive toxic problem.”</em></span></div><div style="border: none; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; border: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></div><div style="border: none; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; border: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Meanwhile, doctors on the ground are discouraged from talking out openly about the issue to the press.</span></div><div style="border: none; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; border: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></div><br />
 <div style="border: none; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; border: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“One of the surprising things that we found in speaking to the doctors on the ground is that they say they reportedly have been discouraged by the government from talking out openly about this to the press.”</em></span></div><div style="border: none; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; border: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></div><div style="border: none; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; border: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">RT had to conduct interviews with local experts in privacy. <em style="border: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“The biologist that we have spoken in Najaf, who was researching the issue in the city, had to give us the interview in the privacy of her home, on the roof there, instead of her laboratory. She said that there’s an active push by the government perhaps not to embarrass the coalition forces, not to really talk about this issue.”</em></span></div><div style="border: none; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; border: none; color: black; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://rt.com/news/iraq-depleted-uranium-health-394/" style="background-color: white; border: none; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Source</a>: </span><a href="http://rt.com/news/iraq-depleted-uranium-health-394/">http://rt.com/news/iraq-depleted-uranium-health-394/</a></div>

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Depleted uranium used by US forces blamed for birth defects and cancer in Iraq

Russia Today — July 22, 2013 Warning disturbing photos!!! Cancer is more common than flu in the Iraqi city of Najaf, about 160 km south o...

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