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Iraqis living to the south of Baghdad have blamed depleted uranium from US military equipment for
causing a rise in the number of cancer cases.

These cancer cases have spread fears among the locals, prompting them to demand an urgent
investigation.

Mosab Jasim interviews Abdulhaq Al-Ani, author of Uranium in Iraq – The Poisonous Legacy of Iraq
Wars, for more analysis.