[CPEO-MEF] URANIUM, GLOBAL: "Iraqi Kids Test Positive for Depleted Uranium Remnants Near Former US Air Base"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Iraqi Kids Test Positive for Depleted Uranium Remnants Near Former US Air Base

BY Mike Ludwig
Truthout
September 19, 2019

For the first time, independent researchers have found that the bodies of Iraqi children born with congenital disabilities, such as heart disease and malformed limbs, near a former United States air base in southern Iraq are contaminated with high levels of radioactive heavy metals associated with toxic depleted uranium pollution leftover from the 2003 U.S.-led invasion.

The findings appear to bolster claims made by Iraqi doctors who observed high rates of congenital disabilities in babies born in areas that experienced heavy fighting during the bloody first year of the most recent Iraq war.

In 2016, researchers tested the hair and teeth of children from villages in proximity to the Talil Air Base, a former U.S. air base, located south of Baghdad and near the city Nasiriyah. They found elevated levels of uranium and of thorium, two slightly radioactive heavy metals linked to cancer and used to make nuclear fuel.

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For the entire article, see
https://truthout.org/articles/iraqi-children-test-positive-for-depleted-uranium-near-former-us-air-base/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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