After 20 years, Iraqis still suffer from impact of U.S. use of banned weapons
STORY: After 20 years, Iraqis still suffer from impact of U.S. use of banned weapons
SHOOTING TIME: March 12, 2024
DATELINE: March 20, 2024
LENGTH: 00:03:05
LOCATION: FALLUJAH, Iraq
CATEGORY: POLITICS/SOCIETY
SHOTLIST:
1. various of Fallujah
2. various of local people
3. SOUNDBITE 1 (Arabic): KHALID IBRAHIM, Fallujah citizen
4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Arabic): NOUR, Ibrahim's daughter
5. SOUNDBITE 3 (Arabic): ABDUL QUDDUS HAMEED, Medical analysis specialist
STORYLINE:
Twenty years after the U.S. military offensive in the Iraqi city of Fallujah, locals are still suffering from the lasting impacts of the use of internationally banned weapons by U.S. forces.
In April 2004, U.S. occupation forces launched an offensive in Fallujah, 50 km west of Baghdad, but they encountered strong resistance from anti-U.S. armed groups, which prompted the U.S. forces to sweep the city in November of the same year.
According to local doctors and citizens, the U.S. forces employed internationally banned weapons in their operation,
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