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    ‘Environmental Poisoning’ of Iraq Is Claimed
    ▻http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/27/world/middleeast/environmental-poisoning-of-iraq-is-claimed.html

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    An advocacy group representing American military veterans and Iraqi civilians arrived here on Wednesday armed with a message for the United States government: Washington must do something for the thousands of people suffering from what the group called the “environmental poisoning” of Iraq during the war.

    The group, Right to Heal, says that veterans and civilians continue to feel the effects of the burn pits — banned by Congress four years ago — that were used to dispose of military waste, and that new health problems arise every day for Iraqis.

    “Things are worse off today by a thousandfold,” Representative Jim McDermott, Democrat of Washington, said during a hearing in the House on Wednesday morning that featured witnesses from Right to Heal.

    Several hours later, Right to Heal called its own “people’s hearing” at a Quaker meeting house in Washington. One witness there, John Tirman, executive director and principal research scientist at the M.I.T. Center for International Studies, said that in playing down the health effects of the war, American officials had violated “the trust we place in government, that is, that they would be accountable to us even in the most severe times of war.”

    #Irak #crime #santé #fosse_de_brulage

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    • #United States government
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      vide @touti 29/03/2014

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      La veuve d’un soldat de la #AirForce en parle.
      #industrie_militaire #empoisonneurs

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      Kassem @kassem CC BY-NC-SA 3/06/2014

      Study links Iraq veterans’ respiratory problems to metallic dust from ‘burn pits’ at U.S. base
      ▻http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/06/03/study-links-iraq-veterans-respiratory-problems-to-metallic-dust-from-burn-

      According to the armed forces newspaper Stars and Stripes, titanium and other metals have been found in the lungs of at least six sick Iraq veterans, metals found in dust samples from Camp Victory in Iraq.

      “We biopsied several patients and found titanium in every single one of them,” said Anthony Szema, a pulmonary and allergy specialist at New York’s Stony Brook School of Medicine. “It matched dust that we have collected from Camp Victory.”

      Stars and Stripes said that Szema will present a report at the Symposium on Lung Health after Deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan detailing his findings, which show that the Iraqi dust is different from other dust in that the human body is incapable of eliminating it.

      Normal pollutants enter the lungs and, in most cases, the body eliminates them through a variety of processes. The Iraqi dust contains copper and iron in addition to titanium. The particles are tiny and sharp-edged, each about 1/30th the diameter of a human hair. They lodge in the lungs’ tiniest airways, the bronchioles, and form crystals that ultimately destroy the air passages.

      The resulting syndrome is called constrictive bronchiolitis, and it can be caused by the inhalation of a number of environmental toxins. Damage to the lungs can be permanent and, in some cases, fatal.

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  • #crime
  • #fosse_de_brulage
  • #Irak
  • #santé

  • City:Washington
  • Country:Iraq
  • Country:United States
  • MedicalCondition:burn
  • MedicalCondition:Environmental Poisoning
  • Organization:An
  • Organization:Congress
  • Organization:United States government
  • Person:Jim McDermott
  • Position:Representative
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