Birth Defects Increase In Fallujah Since Occupation

The children born here have a higher than normal rate of birth defects, according to local doctors.

 FALLUJAH, Iraq — The children born here have a higher than normal rate of birth defects, according to local doctors.

The birth defects come five years after the U.S. military and Sunni militia groups fought two huge battles.

The UK Guardian reported that the population of Fallujah has 15 times more deformed children than documented calulations caught before the U.S. occupation of Iraq.

Doctors say that its time for an investigation into the cause of the birth defects.

The U.S. military has been accused to using incendiary white phosphorus on the city.

In the years after the bombings, there has been a “very significant increase” in chldren’s nervous systems, said Fallujah General hospital director, Dr Ayman Qais.

During a three week period at the hospital, 37 infants were born with birth defects, most with problems associated with the spinal cord or brain.

The same neural tube deformity occurs in one in 1,000 babies born in America.