Editing Depleted uranium (section)

===Iraqi population===
Since 2001, medical personnel working for the Iraqi state health service controlled by Saddam Hussein at the [[Basra]] hospital in [[southern Iraq]] have reported a sharp increase in the incidence of child leukemia and genetic malformation among babies born in the decade following the Gulf War. Iraqi doctors attributed these malformations to possible long-term effects of DU, an opinion that was echoed by several newspapers.<ref name=r1/><ref name="bostonglobe">Neuffer, Elizabeth (26 January 2003). [http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0126-03.htm Iraqis Trace Surge in Cancer to US Bombings] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130902013328/http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0126-03.htm|date=2 September 2013}}, Boston, Massachusetts: ''Boston Globe''. Page: A11 Section: National/Foreign.</ref><ref>Johnson, Larry (12 November 2002) [http://www.seattlepi.com/national/95178_du12.shtml Iraqi cancers, birth defects blamed on U.S. depleted uranium] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081120013734/http://www.seattlepi.com/national/95178_du12.shtml |date=20 November 2008 }} ''Seattle Post-Intelligencer''. Retrieved 25 January 2009.</ref><ref>{{cite news|author=McKay, Ron  |url=http://www.commondreams.org/views01/0114-01.htm |title=Depleted Uranium: The Horrific Legacy of Basra |newspaper=Sunday Herald |location=Scotland |date=14 January 2001 |access-date=15 February 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130527015017/http://www.commondreams.org/views01/0114-01.htm |archive-date=27 May 2013}}</ref> In 2004, Iraq had the highest mortality rate due to [[leukemia]] of any country.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.who.int/entity/healthinfo/global_burden_disease/gbddeathdalycountryestimates2004.xls |title=WHO Data, 2004 |access-date=4 September 2013}}</ref><ref name="Doctor's Gulf War Studies Link Cancer to Depleted Uranium">{{cite news |title=Doctor's Gulf War Studies Link Cancer to Depleted Uranium |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/29/world/doctor-s-gulf-war-studies-link-cancer-to-depleted-uranium.html |website=[[The New York Times]] |date=29 January 2001}}</ref> In 2003, the Royal Society called for Western militaries to disclose where and how much DU they had used in Iraq so that rigorous, and hopefully conclusive, studies could be undertaken in affected areas.<ref name = "Moszynski 2003 b">{{Harvnb|Moszynski|2003}}.</ref> The [[International Coalition to Ban Uranium Weapons]] (ICBUW) likewise urged that an epidemiological study be made in the Basra region, as requested by Iraqi doctors,<ref>{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20070811074117/http://www.bandepleteduranium.org/en/a/41.html Support the Basra Epidemiological Study]}}, International Coalition to Ban Uranium Weapons</ref> but no peer-reviewed study has yet been undertaken in Basra.

A medical survey, "[[Cancer]], [[Infant Mortality]] and Birth [[Human sex ratio|Sex Ratio]] in [[Fallujah]], Iraq 2005–2009" published in July 2010, states that the "...increases in cancer and [[birth defects]]...are alarmingly high" and that infant mortality 2009/2010 has reached 13.6%. The group compares the dramatic increase, five years after wartime exposure in 2004, with the [[lymphoma]] that Italian peacekeepers<ref>[http://staff.polito.it/alessandro.mantelero/DUP.html Mantelero_Depleted uranium legal aspects (Italy) 2009–2011] 7 May 2011.</ref> developed after the [[Balkan wars]] and the increased cancer risk in certain parts of [[Sweden]] because of the [[Chernobyl disaster|Chernobyl]] fallout. The origin and time of introduction of the [[Carcinogen|carcinogenic agent]] causing the [[genetics|genetic]] [[Stress (biology)|stress]] was expected to be addressed by the group in a separate report.<ref>{{cite journal | pmc = 2922729 | pmid=20717542 | doi=10.3390/ijerph7072828 | volume=7 | title=Cancer, infant mortality and birth sex-ratio in Fallujah, Iraq 2005-2009 | date=July 2010 | journal=Int J Environ Res Public Health | pages=2828–37  | last1 = Busby | first1 = C | last2 = Hamdan | first2 = M | last3 = Ariabi | first3 = E| issue=7 | doi-access=free }}</ref> The report mentions depleted uranium as one "potentially relevant exposure" but makes no conclusions on the source.

Four studies investigating links between the use of depleted uranium by [[Multi-National Force – Iraq|Coalition forces]] during the [[Second Battle of Fallujah]] were conducted in 2012, one of which described the people of Fallujah as having "the highest rate of genetic damage in any population ever studied." In response to these studies, Ross Caputi, a former [[United States Marine Corps|U.S. Marine]] who participated in the battle, wrote a [[The Guardian|Guardian]] newspaper article calling for the [[Federal government of the United States|United States government]] to conduct its own study into the matter.<ref>{{cite news |last= Caputi |first= Ross |date= 25 October 2012 |title= The victims of Fallujah's health crisis are stifled by western silence |work= [[The Guardian]] |url= https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/oct/25/fallujah-iraq-health-crisis-silence |access-date= 29 August 2013 }}</ref>