A British scientist says the weaponry used by the US in Fallujah in central Iraq has increased the cancer rate in the city, outpacing Japan's Hiroshima and Nagasaki. "In the case of leukemia, we found that the rate of leukemia was 38 times higher than what we expected in the population that we sampled," Chris Busby the director of Green Audit, an environmental consultancy agency. "We also had 10-fold level of childhood caner, breast cancer, and all cancer types that were in association with radiation which were found following the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but actually these were at much higher rates and occurred at sooner after the event," he added.
"The other thing we found peculiar sex ratio change which is a sure indicator of genetic damage which was also found after Hiroshima and Nagasaki," Busby said.
"It is a serious mutation. All these findings are consistent with exposure to large amounts of Uranium," he concluded. More here
