ALARMING NEWS!
Earl J. Prignitz
April 15, 2007
A highly regarded Iraqi epidemiologist who wanted to tell Americans about the alarming rise in cancer levels among Iraqi children is scheduled to come to Canada instead because he couldn't get a visa to the United States.
After he was unable to travel to the University of Washington, Riyadh Lafta -- best known for a controversial study that estimated Iraq's body count in the U.S.-led war in Iraq at more than half a million -- will arrive at Simon Fraser University in B.C. this month to give a lecture and meet with research associates there.
Once in Canada, Dr. Lafta will present estimates that paint a damning portrait of the war's ravages on children: that birth defects are on the rise since the war began, and that the number of children dying from cancers such as leukemia has risen tenfold.
Will you tell me how can our leaders can go to sleep at night knowing what they are doing to the innocent children of Iraq?
After he was unable to travel to the University of Washington, Riyadh Lafta -- best known for a controversial study that estimated Iraq's body count in the U.S.-led war in Iraq at more than half a million -- will arrive at Simon Fraser University in B.C. this month to give a lecture and meet with research associates there.
Once in Canada, Dr. Lafta will present estimates that paint a damning portrait of the war's ravages on children: that birth defects are on the rise since the war began, and that the number of children dying from cancers such as leukemia has risen tenfold.
Will you tell me how can our leaders can go to sleep at night knowing what they are doing to the innocent children of Iraq?
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