Iraqi Doctor Learns from Hiroshima's Past, note Shinya Ajima and Shinsuke Takahashi

2004-08-06

HIROSHIMA — An Iraqi doctor left his war-battered country in April. His destination was Hiroshima, and the purpose of his trip was to obtain knowledge and data on radiation effects in the city once devastated by the first atomic bombing in the world.

Hussam Mahmood Salih, 34, a pediatrician from Basra, said the number of child cancer cases jumped eightfold in the southern Iraqi city between 1988 and 2002, suspecting it was caused by the 1991 Gulf War, in which U.S. forces used depleted uranium shells.

Photo of an Iraqi child-victim of “Depleted” Uranium, courtesy of Dave’s Web:

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The Center for an Informed America: NEWSLETTER #13 August 13, 2002;
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