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WHO Refuses to Publish Report on Cancers/ Birth Defects in Iraq Caused by d.u. ammunition

WHO Refuses to Publish Report on Cancers and Birth Defects in Iraq Caused by Depleted Uranium Ammunition
By Denis Halliday

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has categorically refused in defiance of its own mandate to share evidence uncovered in Iraq that US military use of
Depleted Uranium and other weapons have not only killed many civilians, but continue to result in the birth of deformed babies.
This issue was first brought to light in 2004 in a WHO expert report "on the long-term health of Iraq’s civilian population resulting from depleted
uranium (DU) weapons". This earlier report was "held secret", namely suppressed by the WHO:

The study by three leading radiation scientists cautioned that children and adults could contract cancer after breathing in dust containing
DU, which is radioactive and chemically toxic. But it was blocked from publication by the World Health Organization (WHO), which employed the main
author, Dr Keith Baverstock, as a senior radiation advisor. He alleges that it was deliberately suppressed, though this is denied by WHO.

(See Rob Edwards, WHO ‘Suppressed’ Scientific Study Into Depleted Uranium Cancer Fears in Iraq, The Sunday Herald,
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Almost nine years later, a joint WHO- Iraqi Ministry of Health Report on cancers and birth defect in Iraq was to be released in November 2012.

WHO Refuses to Publish Report on Cancers and Birth Defects in Iraq Caused by Depleted Uranium Ammunition
By Denis Halliday

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has categorically refused in defiance of its own mandate to share evidence uncovered in Iraq that US military use of
Depleted Uranium and other weapons have not only killed many civilians, but continue to result in the birth of deformed babies.
This issue was first brought to light in 2004 in a WHO expert report "on the long-term health of Iraq’s civilian population resulting from depleted
uranium (DU) weapons". This earlier report was "held secret", namely suppressed by the WHO:

The study by three leading radiation scientists cautioned that children and adults could contract cancer after breathing in dust containing
DU, which is radioactive and chemically toxic. But it was blocked from publication by the World Health Organization (WHO), which employed the main
author, Dr Keith Baverstock, as a senior radiation advisor. He alleges that it was deliberately suppressed, though this is denied by WHO.

(See Rob Edwards, WHO ‘Suppressed’ Scientific Study Into Depleted Uranium Cancer Fears in Iraq, The Sunday Herald,
<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=0017h_2zgzyUDG9a8yw3AFVs2Xd2fXxLdxCRSVGnyOXRN1k
4HsW-VXVilAfokIU9TZYf4F71cDoZB_V13b_crXO-0eSdfWp7F4IXLrWDQwBtXEnsfCz34cG3iKG
BHR6qlO4GS-CMLf-rhmLsUTCvVNZj4cBODpFH1cU> February 24, 2004)

Almost nine years later, a joint WHO- Iraqi Ministry of Health Report on cancers and birth defect in Iraq was to be released in November 2012.

"It has been delayed repeatedly and now has no release date whatsoever."

To this date the WHO study remains "classified".

According to Hans von Sponeck, former Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations,
"The US government sought to prevent the WHO from surveying areas in southern Iraq where depleted uranium had been used and caused serious health
and environmental dangers."

(quoted in Mozhgan Savabieasfahani Rise of Cancers and Birth Defects in Iraq: World Health Organization Refuses to Release Data,
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Global Research, July 31, 2013)

This tragedy in Iraq reminds one of US Chemical Weapons used in Vietnam. And that the US has failed to acknowledge or pay compensation or provide medical
assistance to thousands of deformed children born and still being born due to American military use of Agent Orange throughout the country.
The millions of gallons of this chemical dumped on rural Vietnam were eagerly manufactured and sold to the Pentagon by companies Dupont, Monsanto
and others greedy for huge profits.

Given the US record of failing to acknowledge its atrocities in warfare, I fear those mothers in Najaf and other Iraqi cities and towns advised not to
attempt the birth of more children will never receive solace or help.

A United Nations that is no longer corrupted by the five Permanent Members of the Security Council is what is needed.

Copyright C 2013 Global Research

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