Fallujah is worse than Hiroshima

by Layla Anwar

This information is too important to only be written down ... and this is just a hurried comment.

There was an interview on Al-Jazeera, led by Ahmad Mansour with Professor Chris Busby. Busby is Professor and Chief Scientist of Green Audit, and scientific advisor to the European Committee on Radiation Risk. To learn more about Professor Busby and his work you can search in Google: Chris Busby Uranium.

Professor Busby has published several articles on radiation and uranium contamination in areas like Lebanon, Kosovo, Gaza, and of course Iraq.

I will tell you of his recent discoveries, which were the subject of the program broadcast by Al-Jazeera. As some of you know, Fallujah is a forbidden city. It was subjected to intense bombing in 2004, with DU bombs and white phosphorous, and thereafter became a forbidden zone - which means that both the puppet authorities as well as the invading forces, the U.S. occupiers, do not allow any study to be conducted in Fallujah. Fallujah is under siege.

Obviously, both Americans and Iraqis know they are hiding something from the public. It is here that Professor Busby goes, determined to get to the bottom of what happened in Falluja in 2004. Being a renowned scientist in his field, he conducted research and tests in Falluja.

His preliminary results will be published next week - hopefully. Professor Busby has encountered many obstacles while developing his project. Neither he nor any member of his team were allowed to enter Fallujah to conduct interviews. So, when the main door closes, it becomes necessary to find other doors to open. And so they did.

He managed to gather a team of Iraqis in Fallujah to conduct the examinations for him. The research was based on 721 families from Fallujah, a total of 4,500 participants - living in areas with different levels of radiation. The results were compared with a control group - an example of the same number of families living in a non-radioactive area in another Arab country. For this comparative purpose, he selected three other countries - Kuwait, Egypt and Jordan.

Before we proceed to the preliminary results, I must stress the following:

*The Iraqi authorities threatened everyone involved in the research, with arrest and detention, should they cooperate with the "terrorists" that were interviewed. In other words, they were threatened within the scope of anti-terrorism laws.

 U.S. forces have banned Professor Busby from obtaining any data, arguing that Falluja is a rebel zone.

Falluja's doctors refused the request to make statements that will be transmitted live to the Ahmed Mansour program, who has received numerous death threats and fears for his life. In other words, this study was conducted in extremely difficult conditions. But it was conducted.

As the program has not been uploaded on YouTube, I cannot provide an absolutely accurate transcript of it. But I took brief notes, and memorized the necessary facts. I will do everything possible to present all the facts that I learned today. So what did the U.S. and its Iraqi puppets do that they do not want the public to know? And why not allow any measurement of radiation levels in Falluja, and why do they forbid even the IAEA to enter the town? By what right? What happened in Falluja, exactly? What types of bombs were used? Only DU or something else?

*Something that is quite curious in Falluja is the dramatic rise in cancer rates in a short space of time, for example in 2004. Examples provided by Professor Busby:

*The rate of childhood leukemia has increased 40 fold since 2004 compared to previous years. Compared with Jordan, it is 38 times larger.

*The rate of breast cancer increased 10 times since 2004

*The rate of lymphatic cancer also increased 10 times since 2004.

2) Another curiosity in Falluja is the dramatic increase in infant mortality rates. Compared with two other Arab countries, such as Kuwait and Egypt, which are not contaminated by radiation, this is the picture:

*Infant mortality in Fallujah is 80 children per 1,000 births, compared with Kuwait, with 9 children per 1,000 births, and Egypt, with 19 per 1,000 children (thus, the infant mortality rate in Iraq is 4 times higher than in Egypt and 9 times higher than in Kuwait).

3) The third feature in Falluja is the number of birth defects that suddenly exploded since 2004. This is a subject about which I've written in the past. But not the whole truth, today I learned a little more. The radiation from any of the agents used by the forces of "liberation" not only caused massive genetic deformities as well, and not least:

*provoked structural changes at the cellular level. In turn, this means that due to genetic alterations of the boys (lack of X chromosome), these are more likely to die at birth, and girls are more likely to survive with strong deformities. Another early example by Professor Busby: before 2003, birth rates in Falluja were as follows: 1050 boys to 1000 girls. In 2005 only 350 boys were born - which means that most did not survive.

*As for girls, and here lies the tragedy, the radiation causes changes in DNA, which means that if she survives, and tries to play, probably she will give birth to sons and daughters genetically disfigured or stillborn.