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Fallujah Birth Defects and More...
Listen to Tim King on the Barry Chamish Show

American and Israeli journalist discuss political and military realities on the day of the year targeted for human rights...

(ST AUGUSTINE) - Tim King was a featured guest on the Barry Chamish Radio Program last Tuesday, 04 December 2013. The program was unique and interesting and didn't take long to move into very controversial territory.

An Israeli military vet, Barry Chamish has been called Israel's top investigative reporter and he has spent years researching and revealing some of Israel's most unpleasant truths. Tim King, a former U.S. Marine, as a news editor, covers human rights violations in places like Palestine, Sri Lanka and Burma on Salem-News.com.

Prove What You Don`t Have

Those who insisted that Iraq prove that it didn't have what it said it didn't have simply rejected Iraq's denial, which cost a million and a half lives and trillions of dollars.

(MANAMA, Bahrain) - Prove that you don't have what I believe you have! That was an exact demand made on Saddam Hussein. He scoffed. That brought "shock and awe", and Saddam was hanged on the mother of all ropes.

Prove that you don't have weapons of mass destruction (WMDs). The neocons sold the logic of that empty demand and the American public bought it.

`Damning Evidence` Becomes `No Clear Evidence`: Much-Delayed Report On Congenital Birth Defects In Iraq

"All studies done by the Ministry of Health prove with damning evidence that there has been a rise in birth defects and cancer, since the substances in question cause birth defects if the mother was exposed to them, or cancer, or in some cases, both." - senior MOH official in Baghdad

(LONDON) - In a 2010 alert, 'Beyond Hiroshima – The Non-Reporting Of Fallujah's Cancer Catastrophe', we noted the almost non-existent media response to the publication of a new study that had found high rates of infant mortality, cancer and leukemia in the Iraqi city.

The dramatic increases in these rates exceeded even those found in survivors of the atomic bombs dropped by the United States on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.

Al Jazeera: `No Clear Evidence` for Rise in Iraqi Birth Defects

A March finding of 'damning evidence' in the increase in cancers and other health issues was reversed by a new report.

(DETROIT) - A short and anonymous report just appeared on the World Health Organization (WHO) website. It is titled "Summary of prevalence of reported congenital birth defects in 18 selected districts in Iraq." Previously, this report was referred to on the WHO website as a "joint study" with the Iraqi Ministry of Health (MoH) which began in May-June 2012.

It was to examine the prevalence of congenital birth defects in a number of geographically dispersed areas of Iraq which were exposed to bombardment or heavy fighting, or were unexposed.

Letter to President Obama from a Loyal Supporter

At this point in your presidency, the situation may seem far too similar to the events that led to President Bush's misguided responses to September 11 and disastrously illogical decision to also invade Iraq.

(CHICAGO) - Dear President Obama,

I supported you in both elections, with my vote and financial giving. When you were elected, I was overjoyed that the US had a leader in the White House who was bright, articulate and honest. After the Bush years, many of us were very discouraged about our country, but you brought hope.

WHO Is Delaying Release of Iraqi Birth Defect Data?

Advocates wonder if truth is too toxic...

(WASHINGTON DC) - Observers say they are on the cusp of getting the hard evidence needed to prove Iraqis are suffering from a disproportionate rate of birth defects and cancers, likely due to massive pollution caused by the war.

So what’s the problem? Or should we say, WHO is the problem?

The WHO Must Release Report on Iraqi Birth Defects Now

"The indefinite postponement of the World Health Organisation's report is alarming scientists and activists."

(DETROIT) - Large parts of the Middle East are now contaminated with war pollutants.

In Iraq, war debris continues to wear away and erode populated cities. Such debris includes the wreckage of tanks and armoured vehicles, trucks and abandoned military ammunitions, as well as the remains of bombs and bullets.

President Obama Discusses Zimmerman Verdict Aftermath

LaVena Johnson's rape and murder were deemed a 'suicide' in one of the most flagrant abuses of justice in US history.

(CLEVELAND) - The vicious rape and murder of LaVena Johnson at Joint Base Balad in Iraq is one of the most gut wrenching miscarriages of justice ever recorded.

The investigating authorities with the government apparently concluded that she lit her public area on fire before committing suicide, and that she beat herself and knocked her own teeth out.

WHO`s Iraq Birth Defect Study Omits Causation

The report will not examine the link between the prevalence of birth defects and use of depleted uranium (DU) munitions used during the war and occupation in Iraq, according to WHO.

(UNITED NATIONS) - A long-awaited study on congenital birth defects by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Ministry of Health (MOH) in Iraq is expected to be very extensive in nature.

According to WHO, 10,800 households were selected as a sample size for the study, which was scheduled to be released early this year but has not yet been made public.

What`s Delaying the WHO Report on Iraqi Birth Defects?

A 2012 World Health Organization study on congenital birth defects in Iraq has still not been released to the public.

(DETROIT) - Iraq is poisoned. Thirty-five million Iraqis wake up every morning to a living nightmare of childhood cancers, adult cancers and birth defects. Familial cancers, cluster cancers and multiple cancers in the same individual have become frequent in Iraq.

Sterility, repeated miscarriages, stillbirths and severe birth defects - some never described in any medical books - are all around, in increasing numbers. Trapped in this hellish nightmare, millions of Iraqis struggle to survive, and they call for help.