"...Dr Samira Alaani, Head of the Congenital Malformations Unit at the newly renovated Fallujah hospital, explains how abnormalities have soared since 2004. She has been documenting more than a thousand births since 2009, and argues that in the past couple of years, the rate at which children with congenital malformations have been born has dramatically increased. She explains: "we did a study that was published in a peer reviewed journal, and it shows rates of enriched uranium in the hair samples of the children's parents." Much has been written about the use of depleted uranium in warfare, but "we were very surprised at finding enriched uranium, this stuff alters genetic codes for generations." The study, carried out alongside faculty at the UK-based University of Ulster, is damning. It concludes that since "enriched Uranium exposure is either a primary cause or related to the cause of the congenital abnormalities and cancer increases (...) questions are thus raised about the characteristics and composition of weapons now being deployed in modern battlefields."..."
http://www.monitor.upeace.org/innerpg.cfm?id_article=1009
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