Young women in Fallujah, Iraq are terrified of having children because of the increasing number of babies born grotesquely deformed, with no heads, two heads, a single eye in their foreheads, scaly bodies, or missing limbs. In addition, young children in Fallujah are now experiencing hideous cancers and leukaemias. These deformities are now well documented, for example in television documentaries on SKY UK on September 1, 2009, and on SKY UK, June 2008. Our direct contact with doctors in Fallujah report that: In September 2009, Fallujah General Hospital had 170 newborn babies, 24% of whom were dead within the first seven days. A staggering 75% of the dead babies were classified as deformed. This can be compared with data from the month of August in 2002 where there were 530 newborn babies of whom six were dead within the first seven days and only one birth defect was reported. Doctors in Fallujah have specifically pointed out that not only are they witnessing unprecedented numbers of birth defects but premature births have also considerably increased after 2003. But what is more alarming is that doctors in Fallujah have said, "A significant number of babies that do survive begin to develop severe disabilities at a later stage." As one of a number of doctors, scientists, and those with deep concern for Iraq, Dr. Chris Burns-Cox, a British hospital physician, wrote a letter to the Rt. Hon. Clare Short, M.P. asking about this situation. She wrote a letter to the Rt. Hon. Douglas Alexander, M.P., the Secretary of State of the Department for International Development (a post she had held before she resigned on a matter of principle in May 2003 ) asking for clarification of the position of deformed children in Fallujah. read more at: http://uruknet.info/index.php?p=m58926&hd;=&size;=1&l;=e