Re: Cancer rates among Iraqi children

[applegrove]

Canada offers forum for lecturer barred from U.S.
JONATHAN WOODWARD

From Wednesday's Globe and Mail

VANCOUVER — "A highly regarded Iraqi epidemiologist who wants to tell Americans about an alarming rise in cancer levels among Iraqi children will come to Canada instead because he couldn't get a visa to the United States.

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.

"The University of Washington wanted him, but the U.S. denied his entry," said his colleague at SFU, Tim Takaro. "They need to be able to collaborate, even if his results are unpopular with the Americans. Now he's at SFU, and the best they're going to get is a video feed."

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.

....SNIP"

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070411.wxiraqi11/BNStory/National/?cid=al_gam_nletter_newsUp

[babylonsister]

1. Why this doesn't piss people off I'll NEVER know!

We're not allowing a doctor in to tell us what hell we've wrought in Iraq? This is bullshit!

Thanks, applegrove.

[applegrove]

2. You are very welcome. Sometimes it helps to live next door and have a view onto our

American friends. And different government.