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April 23, 2006
Fallout, Schmallout...
We still have not bothered to look into the consequences of our strike on the Tawitha nuclear research facility in Iraq during the 2003 invasion:
In a report to be posted on the IAEA's Web site this week, the agency states that about 1,000 Iraqi men, women and children in a village near the former Tuwaitha nuclear research facility are living inside an area contaminated by radioactive residue and ruin. "I can only guess that a lot of the damage at Tuwaitha was from bombing," Dennis Reisenweaver, an IAEA safety expert, told NEWSWEEK. "Any time you damage a facility that uses radioactive material, you have potential for spreading contamination."...
Asked to comment on the bombing, a spokesman for U.S. Central Command, Lt. Col. Barry Johnson, said, "We have no record of that here."
What does it say that the world's biggest, sole superpower cannot be bothered to relocate 1,000 villagers? (Let alone look into what health consequences they may be suffering from?)
Posted by zeynep at April 23, 2006 12:56 PM