Doctors in Iraq are recording a sharp rise in cancer south of Baghdad. Sufferers in the province of Babil have risen almost ten times in the past three years.
Locals blame depleted uranium from US military rounds used in the 2003 invasion. But the link has been difficult to prove.
In this part of Iraq, 500 cases of cancer were diagnosed in 2004. That figure rose to almost 1,000 two years later.
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Mosab Jasim reports that Iraqi researchers believe radiation is responsible for the increase in cancer and birth defects in the country. He also says the US and British have provided contradictory information about the dangers of depleted uranium.
However, Christopher Busby, a British scientist and activist, said there is proof of a definitive link between cancer and depleted uranium.
"I made this link to a coroner's inquest in the West Midlands into the death of a Gulf War One veteran ... and a coroner's jury accepted my evidence," he told Al Jazeera.
The coroner's court agreed that cancer was caused by an exposure to depleted uranium.
source: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/10/20091012122745236765.html
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