MOSUL: Crimes committed by the Americans in conjunction with the Iraqi forces

The Iraqi Rabita -League reveals crimes committed by the American occupation forces in conjunction with the Iraqi forces in Mosul

June 10, 2008

In another round of American crimes against the people of Iraq, the information about to be provided, will show the extent of the American lawless hysteria and its total disregard for human lives. And will also show the criminal complicity of those who took the Americans as military and political allies and as friends and who provide to them their services -- all conducted in the Green Zone.

On the eve of Wednesday 11.7.2007, heavy fighting broke out in the Sheikh Fathi center in the Zanjilia district from unknown armed men.American helicopter planes rushed and some of these unknown armed men fired at the planes.

The americans responded by using forbidden weapons and bombed the house of a Taha Al-Janbil, a Judge. All those who were in the house were immediately killed.

We met the Judge Taha Al-Janbil who was not at home when this murder happened and he informed us of the following :

1)- After the crime, the Americans came to visit him and gave him the name of some senior American army member. So he understood that this was an attempt by some Americans to cover up for their crime --- by providing the name of a high up American army name.

2)- several TV stations and newspapers came to Mosul to see for themselves, but the following channels even though they received the reports refused to air or publish it - these channels were Dubai TV, Naharain TV and Baghdad TV.

3)- the judge Taha believes that the americans used weapons that are forbidden and he believes they were phosphorus bombs. One family member Farhan Ahmed who arrived at the scene tried saving another member but was burned himself when he tried carrying this family member and got his hands lightly burned. He went to the hospital to treat those light burns only to see that they turned green and he died from phosphorus /napalm poisoning.

4)- The members from Judge Taha Al-Janbil family who were killed that day by the Americans were.- Ahmad Jamil Al-Janbil - 70 years old - the grandfather- Hameeda Brahim al Balwee - 63 years old - the grandmother- Farhan Ahmad Jameel - 43 years old - the son.- Muawiya Ahmad Jameel - 30 years old - the son- Ahmad Farhan Ahmad - 13 years old - the grandson- Hatem Farhan Ahmad - 10 years old - the grandson.- the only survivor with severe burns - Jameela Ahmad Jameel - the daughterand another 11 severly wounded from the homes in the vicinity.

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Video: White Phosphorus Anger: Could Fallujah Bombing Be Behind Birth Defects?

Three-year-old Fatima Ahmed burdened with two heads on her tiny frame

By Lisa Holland


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Did US Army Cause Iraq Birth Defects?

Updated:07:32, Thursday May 29, 2008

Families in the Iraqi city of Fallujah are calling for an investigation into their claims of a rise in the number of birth defects.

They have raised concerns about the weapons used by American forces in 2004 - when Fallujah suffered one of the heaviest bombardments of the entire war in Iraq.

The evidence is anecdotal because there are no records from the era of Saddam Hussein to compare their stories against.

But Hikmat Tawfeeq, deputy chairman of the Fallujah-based human rights group Alakhiyar said: "We have around 200 cases of deformities recorded by our society. Most of these cases are birth deformities which have arisen after the bombing of Fallujah."

Campaigners say officials are reluctant to speak out publicly, but at Fallujah's children's hospital one doctor told Sky News in the past month she has seen one or two cases of birth deformities every day.

An opthalmologist said he deals with four or five cases of newborn babies every week suffering from some form of eye deformity - and that has risen in the last two years.

At one of the cemeteries in Fallujah, undertaker Mahmoud Hummadi said he usually buries four to five bodies of newborns every day and most of them are deformed.

Fallujah today still bears the scars of a time when it represented the backbone of the Sunni insurgency - a power-base America decided it had to break.

April and November 2004 saw some of the heaviest bombardments of the war in Iraq, including the controversial use of white phosphorous.

It is a highly flammable material which ignites when it comes into contact with oxygen, causing severe burns.

In a statement to Sky News the US military said it had used white phosphorus in Fallujah but primarily as a smokescreen and not as an incendiary weapon.

The families say doctors have raised concerns to them about what kinds of materials were used by the Americans in order to achieve their military goals.

Fatima Ahmed is three years old. Small and lifeless she barely moves, burdened by two heads on her tiny frame.

Her mother Shukriya says doctors have been unable to diagnose exactly what has caused Fatima's condition.

But her father Jassim, when asked who he held responsible for his daughter's condition, said: "It's because of the war - it's the flagrant aggression they launched against us. What they dropped in Fallujah God knows."

We showed our findings from Fallujah to Alastair Hay, a professor of environmental toxicology at Leeds University.

He is currently investigating injuries caused to children during the war in Iraq. He says without an independent medical study it is impossible to say for sure what has caused the deformities and how they may be linked.

But he says there has never been a study examining if there ARE links between white phosphorus and birth deformities.

:: Article nr. 44468 sent on 30-may-2008
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