U.S. War Crimes: Cancer Rate in Fallujah Worse than Hiroshima
Jul 23rd, 2010 | By Kevin Hayden | Category: Featured Articles, Police, Military & WarResearchers found that the cancer rate had increased 4x since before the US attack five years ago, and that the forms of cancer in Fallujah are similar to those found among the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bomb survivors, who were exposed to intense fallout radiation. In Fallujah the rate of leukemia is 38 times higher, the childhood cancer rate is 12 times higher, and breast cancer is 10 times more common than in populations in Egypt, Jordan, and Kuwait. Heightened levels of adult lymphoma and brain tumors were also reported. At 80 deaths out of every 1,000 births, the infant mortality rate in Fallujah is more than five times higher than in Egypt and Jordan, and eight times higher than in Kuwait. *** Warning – Pictures of the effects of depleted uranium included.
