International
Jan. 14, 2001
NATO Disregards Lingering Poison Left by Its Weapons
By Robert Fisk They smiled as they were dying. One little girl in a Basra hospital even put on her party dress for The Independent's portrait of her. She did not survive three months. Many of the other children in Basra's purgatorial hospital were bald and suffering from non-Hodgkins lymphoma. All came from heavily bombed areas of Iraq. A few knew they were dying; some told me they would recover. None of them did.
By Robert Fisk
They smiled as they were dying. One little girl in a Basra hospital even put on her party dress for The Independent's portrait of her. She did not survive three months. Many of the other children in Basra'...
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