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April 20, 2007
a freedom from information act?
Is an Iraqi doctor being kept from speaking at a medical conference in the United States, as punishment for his research showing that over 600,000 Iraqi civilians have been killed during the war?
Dr. Riyadh Lafta is one of the foremost experts on civilian casualties in the current U.S. war in Iraq. He is one of the co-authors of an October 2006 peer-reviewed article in the British medical journal, The Lancet. That article estimated that nearly 655,000 Iraqi civilians had been killed since the war began in 2003.
U.S. scientists want to see Dr. Lafta’s data and invited him to present it at a medical conference in Seattle this week. The U.S. State Department has refused to issue him a visa.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer; 20 April 2007; page B3; ‘Iraqi doctor denied visa – Expert on civilian deaths in war was to speak at UW’
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Posted by williamfrick at April 20, 2007 1:27 PM