"Going on to , because I wrote about this a year ago, and then I returned to the city again this trip, we are seeing an absolute crisis of of newborn. There is one doctor, a pediatrician named Dr. Samira Alani, working on this crisis in the city. Sheâs the only person there registering cases. And sheâs seeing horrific birth defects. I mean, these are extremely hard to look at. Theyâre extremely hard to bear witness to. But itâs something that we all need to pay attention to, because of the amount of depleted uranium used by the U.S. military during both of their brutal attacks on the city of 2004, as well as other toxic munitions like , among other things. ... International law is very clear about these types of weapons: Any weapon that is known to have a lasting negative impact on the civilian population in the general area where it is used is technically a banned or a highly restricted weapon. And in this case, these types of weapons should not be allowed to be used. As I reported back in 2004, when it came out that white phosphorus was indeed being used in Fallujah, thatâs another restricted weapon where the Geneva Conventions state very clearly that if there are anyâa possibility of any civilians in the area where it is going to be used, it is not allowed to be used. So thereâthe are very, very clear about these. ... And I think itâs important that we all remember on the anniversary that this was a war that violated the Geneva Convention. It is a crime against peace, according to the . And all those responsibleâBush, Cheney, Wolfowitzâall the architects of the war, if the U.S. was indeed a member of the , should be handled accordingly. And I think itâs important that we remember the illegality of this and that this continues and that these crimes, started 10 years ago, that were perpetuated against the , that we see now most blatantly in these birth defects of these people in Fallujah, should never have even happened."
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Dahr Jamail
2008 â 2011
(born 1968) is an American journalist who was one of the few unembedded journalists to report extensively from Iraq during the 2003 . He spent eight months in Iraq, between 2003 and 2005, and presented his stories on his website, entitled Dahr Jamail's MidEast Dispatches. Jamail was a reporter for from 2008-2011 and currently reports for . He has been a frequent guest on ', and is the recipient of the 2008 Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism.
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