Via the Tehran Times: Iraq’s Ministry for Human Rights will file
a lawsuit against Britain and the U.S. over their use of
depleted uranium bombs in Iraq, an Iraqi minister says. Iraq’s
Minister of Human Rights, Wijdan Mikhail Salim, told Assabah
newspaper that the lawsuit will be launched based on reports
from the Iraqi ministries of science and the environment.
According to the reports, during the first year of the U.S. and
British invasion of Iraq, both countries had repeatedly used
bombs containing depleted uranium. According to Iraqi military
experts, the U.S. and Britain bombed the country with nearly
2,000 tons of depleted uranium bombs during the early years of
the Iraq war. Atomic radiation has increased the number of
babies born with defects in the southern provinces of Iraq.
Iraqi doctors say they’ have been struggling to cope with the
rise in the number of cancer cases — especially in cities
subjected to heavy U.S. and British bombardment. The high rate
of birth defects and cancer cases will move i