Baban said that in Halabja "there are more abnormal births than normal ones," and other Kurdish doctors told me that they regularly see children born with neural-tube defects and undescended testes and without anal openings. They are seeing--and they showed me--children born with six or seven toes on each foot, children whose fingers and toes are fused, and children who suffer from leukemia and liver cancer. We're told that the epidemic of birth defects in southern Iraq is due to American Gulf War ammunition using depleted uranium.
Note that no DU ammunition was used in Iraqi Kurdistan.
IMO, the source of birth defects in both places is the same: Saddam Hussein's chemical weapons.
For the Saddam Hussein - Baath Socialist Party atrocity file.