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2.8 million Iraqis remain internally displaced

Seven years after the March 2003 US-led invasion, Iraq remains deeply divided. There are few prospects of durable solutions for the approximately 15 per cent of the population who are displaced inside and outside Iraq. It is thought that there are almost 2.8 million internally displaced people

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Disturbing story of Fallujah's birth defects

Six years after the intense fighting began in the Iraqi town of Fallujah between US forces and Sunni insurgents, there is a disturbingly large number of cases of birth defects in the town.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8548961.stm



"After Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there was Fallujah."

The United States Takes the Matter of Three-headed Babies Very Seriously.

By William Blum

The BBC correspondent - saw children in the city who were suffering from paralysis or brain damage, and a photograph of one baby who was born with three heads. He added that he heard many times that officials in Fallujah had warned women that they should not have children.

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From Information Clearing House

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The Cost of War: Disturbing Story of Fallujah's Birth Defects
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/03/04-4



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