U.S. artillery fire, Fallujah, 11.14.2004, Wikimedia Commons
On Friday, 11.13.2009, the London Guardian reported a "Huge rise in birth defects in Fallujah," Iraq. I sent the news to KPFA Radio 94.1FM Weekend News Anchor Anthony Fest, along with contact info for Bob Nichols, San Francisco Bay View Newspaper correspondent and winner of a 2004 Project Censored Award for his reporting on U.S. military's use of depleted uranium weapons in Iraq, and consequent radiation poisoining. I then edited and animated the resulting KPFA Evening News segment, 11.15.2009:
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This is total BS. The only weapon system that typically shoots DU is the GAU-10 30mm cannon on the A-10 jet. Tanks would typically shoot HEAP, which doesn't contain DU. 155mm HE artillery rounds do not contain DU and no DPICM was shot into Fallujah or used anywhere near it. There have been very few if any A-10 missions flown in the area within and around Fallujah and in fact very few in the whole Anbar province. Far more missions were flown in other provinces, but I don't see any reporting of a rise. Obviously, any potential cluster of birth defects deserves investigation, but ascribing the cause (without benefit of investigation) to DU ammunition is just nonsensical. Bob Nichols is definitely a complete crap farmer.
Bob Nichols is a phony - he received the award from Prof Phillips for bad science fiction masquerading as fact. He is no journalist, let alone prize winning investigative journalist. He just has somehow tied in with the San Francisco Bay View over in Hunter's Point. They apparently have no editor or fact checking staff. Anne Garrison did not bother to check very many facts either. I invite her to write me at DUStory-owner@yahoogroups.com - I am in the Bay Area and would love to talk to her.
ltc and roger, you racists can bury your heads deep in the sand and stick your fat overfed ass up in the air all you want like the rest of america and the uk but the truth doesnt change, you are a bunch of fascist morons. This was reported in the fascist establishment zionist paper the Guardian who are trying to minimise the impact of a holocaust. The fact is, congenital birth defects, cancers, etc etc and child mortality have sky rocketed all over Iraq not just in Falluja. My own relatives many of whom have been killed by the insane and sadistic murderers from the US and UK, a few are alive, some are doctors who report that NOT A SINGLE CHILD IS NOW BEING BORN WITHOUT SOME DEFORMITY! Do you understand, you stupid ignorant bastards? Do you understand the crimes you're denying? The report you see here is only the tip of the iceberg and the very worst cases of the genocide, a holocaust of Iraqis facilitated by Israel, US and UK and all the whores who work for them.
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