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Toxic legacy of US assault on Fallujah 'worse than Hiroshima.'

Dramatic increases in infant mortality, cancer and leukaemia in the Iraqui city of Fallujah, which was bombarded by US Marines in 2004, exceed those reported by survivors of the atomic bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, according to a new study. Read the full story.