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Oil fields burning from the war.
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Ameriya Shelter: A cruise missile with
a DU warhead hit the shelter on February 13, 1991. The 1500
people, mostly children were burned alive inside the
shelter. The shelter is being preserved as a memorial.
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A young boy next to bombed apartment
house where many residents were killed.
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Falah Hussein (age 20): When a U.S. dud
bomb suddenly exploded, he lost his right leg. Two years
later, he contracted bone cancer that spread to his lung.
His doctor predicted he wouldn't survive another two weeks.
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Fadel, 7 years old, came from Basra,
South of Iraq. Depleted uranium, with it metal toxicity and
radiation, has damaged her liver and kidneys. A needle was
injected into her body to draw out the abdominal dropsy. She
died soon after the painful injection.
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Mothers with children in their arms in
leukemia ward of Mansool Children's Hospital in Baghdad.
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8-year old Safaa at the entrance to
Mansool Children's Hospital. She was leaving because they had
run out of medicine. As a side effect of the anti-cancer
medication she was taking to treat her leukemia, she had lost
all of her hair.
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Juwad has lost 550g in four month since
his birth. His parents were unable to buy milk for him. He
suffered from heavy diarrhea due to malnutrition. The hospital
had almost no antibiotics available. Babies with low
resistance are highly susceptible to infectious disease. Many
fail to escape death.
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Baby born with anencephaly. His shocked
mother disappeared from the hospital.
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