Fallujah, Iraq: Sky News reports that children are being born with severe birth defects in extremely high numbers in the years following the attack on the city. Use by Army of white phosphorous a possible source. (Recently used in Gaza by Israeli forces.) Infant mortality is very high.
Sky News Links:
Did US Army Cause Iraq Birth Defect? May/29/2008
Iraq's Fetal Medicine Hope March/26/2009
Related:
BBC News reports in 2004 on effects of Agent Orange in Vietnam - 150,000 birth defects related June/14/2004
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