Editing Fallujah (section)

==Health effects of the Iraq War==
In 2010, an academic study<ref>Chris Busby, Malak Hamdan and Entesar Ariabi (2010), "[http://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/7/7/2828/pdf Cancer, Infant Mortality and Birth Sex-Ratio in Fallujah, Iraq 2005–2009] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100715061645/http://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/7/7/2828/pdf |date=15 July 2010 }}", ''Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health'', 2010, 7, 2828–2837; {{doi|10.3390/ijerph7072828}}</ref> had shown "a four-fold increase in all cancers and a 12-fold increase in childhood cancer" since 2004.<ref name=Ind240710>[[Patrick Cockburn]], ''[[The Independent]]'', 24 July 2010, [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/toxic-legacy-of-us-assault-on-fallujah-worse-than-hiroshima-2034065.html Toxic legacy of US assault on Fallujah 'worse than Hiroshima'] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195511/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/toxic-legacy-of-us-assault-on-fallujah-worse-than-hiroshima-2034065.html |date=6 January 2012 }}</ref> In addition, the report said the types of cancer were "similar to that in the Hiroshima survivors who were exposed to ionising radiation from the bomb and uranium in the fallout", and an 18% fall in the male birth ratio (to 850 per 1,000 female births, compared to the usual 1,050) was similar to that seen after the [[Hiroshima bombing]].<ref name=Ind240710/> The authors cautioned that while "the results seem to qualitatively support the existence of serious mutation-related health effects in Fallujah, owing to the structural problems associated with surveys of this kind, care should be exercised in interpreting the findings quantitatively".