{"id":1869,"date":"2002-07-11T16:39:25","date_gmt":"2002-07-11T20:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pbs-wnet-preprod.digi-producers.pbs.org\/wnet\/wideangle\/?p=1869"},"modified":"2008-11-03T14:34:33","modified_gmt":"2008-11-03T18:34:33","slug":"saddams-ultimate-solution-photo-essay-how-chemical-weapons-can-ruin-a-peoples-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pbs-wnet-preprod.digi-producers.pbs.org\/wnet\/wideangle\/interactives-extras\/saddams-ultimate-solution-photo-essay-how-chemical-weapons-can-ruin-a-peoples-future\/1869\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo Essay: How Chemical Weapons Can Ruin a People&#8217;s Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span class=\"silver10\">Witness the legacy of Saddam&#8217;s weapons in our Photo Essay.<a href=\"https:\/\/pbs-wnet-preprod.digi-producers.pbs.org\/wnet\/wideangle\/shows\/saddam\/photo.html\"> <\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\r\n\t\t<style type='text\/css'>\r\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\r\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\r\n\t\t\t}\r\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\r\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\r\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\r\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\r\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\r\n\t\t\t}\r\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\r\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\r\n\t\t\t}\r\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\r\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\r\n\t\t\t}\r\n\t\t<\/style>\r\n\t\t<!-- see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php -->\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1869 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail gallery1'><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n\/\/ <![CDATA[\r\n\tjQuery(document).ready(function () {\r\n\t\tjQuery(\".gallery1 a\").attr(\"rel\",\"gallery1\");\t\r\n\t\tjQuery('a[rel=\"gallery1\"]').colorbox({maxWidth:\"95%\", maxHeight:\"95%\",title: function(){ return jQuery(this).children().attr(\"alt\"); }, });\r\n\t});\r\n\/\/ ]]>\r\n<\/script>\n<dl class=\"gallery-item\">\n<dt class=\"gallery-icon\">\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/pbs-wnet-preprod.digi-producers.pbs.org\/wnet\/wideangle\/files\/\/home\/wnetwp\/webroot\/wnet\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/2\/files\/2008\/07\/saddamphoto1.jpg\" title=\"A Chemical Attack\" rel=\"gallery1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs-wnet-preprod.digi-producers.pbs.org\/wnet\/wideangle\/files\/\/home\/wnetwp\/webroot\/wnet\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/2\/files\/2008\/07\/saddamphoto1.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" alt=\"A Chemical Attack\" \/><\/a>\r\n<\/dt><dd class=\"gallery-caption\" id=\"caption1870\"><span class=\"imagecaption\">A Chemical Attack<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"imagedescription\">Between 1987 and 1988, the Iraqi armed forces launched dozens of chemical attacks in the Kurdish regions of northern Iraq. By far the most intense of these attacks occurred in a town called Halabja.\r\n\r\n<\/span><br \/>\n<\/dd><\/dl><dl class=\"gallery-item\">\n<dt class=\"gallery-icon\">\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/pbs-wnet-preprod.digi-producers.pbs.org\/wnet\/wideangle\/files\/\/home\/wnetwp\/webroot\/wnet\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/2\/files\/2008\/07\/saddamphoto2.jpg\" title=\"Sudden Death\" rel=\"gallery1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs-wnet-preprod.digi-producers.pbs.org\/wnet\/wideangle\/files\/\/home\/wnetwp\/webroot\/wnet\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/2\/files\/2008\/07\/saddamphoto2.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"129\" alt=\"Sudden Death\" \/><\/a>\r\n<\/dt><dd class=\"gallery-caption\" id=\"caption1871\"><span class=\"imagecaption\">Sudden Death<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"imagedescription\">For Iranian photographers who crossed the border to document the attack, the streets of Halabja were a diorama of sudden death.\r\n<\/span><br \/>\n<\/dd><\/dl><dl class=\"gallery-item\">\n<dt class=\"gallery-icon\">\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/pbs-wnet-preprod.digi-producers.pbs.org\/wnet\/wideangle\/files\/\/home\/wnetwp\/webroot\/wnet\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/2\/files\/2008\/07\/saddamphoto3.jpg\" title=\"No Shelter\" rel=\"gallery1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs-wnet-preprod.digi-producers.pbs.org\/wnet\/wideangle\/files\/\/home\/wnetwp\/webroot\/wnet\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/2\/files\/2008\/07\/saddamphoto3.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"129\" alt=\"No Shelter\" \/><\/a>\r\n<\/dt><dd class=\"gallery-caption\" id=\"caption1872\"><span class=\"imagecaption\">No Shelter<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"imagedescription\">Courtyards and basements told a slightly different tale: entire families caught mid-flight, surrounded by blankets, buckets and other imagined -- but ineffective -- means of protection.\r\n<\/span><br \/>\n<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class=\"gallery-item\">\n<dt class=\"gallery-icon\">\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/pbs-wnet-preprod.digi-producers.pbs.org\/wnet\/wideangle\/files\/\/home\/wnetwp\/webroot\/wnet\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/2\/files\/2008\/07\/saddamphoto4.jpg\" title=\"No Escape\" rel=\"gallery1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs-wnet-preprod.digi-producers.pbs.org\/wnet\/wideangle\/files\/\/home\/wnetwp\/webroot\/wnet\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/2\/files\/2008\/07\/saddamphoto4.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"129\" alt=\"No Escape\" \/><\/a>\r\n<\/dt><dd class=\"gallery-caption\" id=\"caption1873\"><span class=\"imagecaption\">No Escape<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"imagedescription\">Still others, concluding from the pungent garlic-and-apples odor that this was no conventional attack, packed their belongings and left in haste. But for many of these, too, there was no escape from death.<\/span><br \/>\n<\/dd><\/dl><dl class=\"gallery-item\">\n<dt class=\"gallery-icon\">\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/pbs-wnet-preprod.digi-producers.pbs.org\/wnet\/wideangle\/files\/\/home\/wnetwp\/webroot\/wnet\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/2\/files\/2008\/07\/saddamphoto5.jpg\" title=\"Tell-Tale Burns\" rel=\"gallery1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs-wnet-preprod.digi-producers.pbs.org\/wnet\/wideangle\/files\/\/home\/wnetwp\/webroot\/wnet\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/2\/files\/2008\/07\/saddamphoto5.jpg\" width=\"148\" height=\"150\" alt=\"Tell-Tale Burns\" \/><\/a>\r\n<\/dt><dd class=\"gallery-caption\" id=\"caption1874\"><span class=\"imagecaption\">Tell-Tale Burns<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"imagedescription\">Approximately 5,000 men, women and children died in the attack on Halabja. Many more suffered serious injury, including tell-tale chemical burns. But this was just the beginning.<\/span><br \/>\n<\/dd><\/dl><dl class=\"gallery-item\">\n<dt class=\"gallery-icon\">\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/pbs-wnet-preprod.digi-producers.pbs.org\/wnet\/wideangle\/files\/\/home\/wnetwp\/webroot\/wnet\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/2\/files\/2008\/07\/saddamphoto6.jpg\" title=\"A Crippling Legacy\" rel=\"gallery1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs-wnet-preprod.digi-producers.pbs.org\/wnet\/wideangle\/files\/\/home\/wnetwp\/webroot\/wnet\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/2\/files\/2008\/07\/saddamphoto6.jpg\" width=\"148\" height=\"150\" alt=\"A Crippling Legacy\" \/><\/a>\r\n<\/dt><dd class=\"gallery-caption\" id=\"caption1875\"><span class=\"imagecaption\">A Crippling Legacy<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"imagedescription\">In 1998, Liverpool University geneticist Christine Gosden began documenting what seemed like abnormal patterns of chronic illness throughout northern Iraq. This man, for example -- a child in 1988 -- developed a severe curvature of the spine.<\/span><br \/>\n<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class=\"gallery-item\">\n<dt class=\"gallery-icon\">\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/pbs-wnet-preprod.digi-producers.pbs.org\/wnet\/wideangle\/files\/\/home\/wnetwp\/webroot\/wnet\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/2\/files\/2008\/07\/saddamphoto7.jpg\" title=\"Unhealed Wounds\" rel=\"gallery1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs-wnet-preprod.digi-producers.pbs.org\/wnet\/wideangle\/files\/\/home\/wnetwp\/webroot\/wnet\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/2\/files\/2008\/07\/saddamphoto7.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"135\" alt=\"Unhealed Wounds\" \/><\/a>\r\n<\/dt><dd class=\"gallery-caption\" id=\"caption1876\"><span class=\"imagecaption\">Unhealed Wounds<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"imagedescription\">Mustard gas burns often require months to heal. And according to geneticist Christine Gosden, they can result in genetic mutations and abnormal tissue growth. Skin lesions, such as this man's, are common throughout the region.\r\n<\/span><br \/>\n<\/dd><\/dl><dl class=\"gallery-item\">\n<dt class=\"gallery-icon\">\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/pbs-wnet-preprod.digi-producers.pbs.org\/wnet\/wideangle\/files\/\/home\/wnetwp\/webroot\/wnet\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/2\/files\/2008\/07\/saddamphoto8.jpg\" title=\"A Genetic Time-Bomb\" rel=\"gallery1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs-wnet-preprod.digi-producers.pbs.org\/wnet\/wideangle\/files\/\/home\/wnetwp\/webroot\/wnet\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/2\/files\/2008\/07\/saddamphoto8.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" alt=\"A Genetic Time-Bomb\" \/><\/a>\r\n<\/dt><dd class=\"gallery-caption\" id=\"caption1877\"><span class=\"imagecaption\">A Genetic Time-Bomb<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"imagedescription\">Geneticist Christine Gosden believes that the mutagenic effects of toxic chemicals are responsible for the high rates and severity of cancers observed near Halabja.\r\n\r\n<\/span><br \/>\n<\/dd><\/dl><dl class=\"gallery-item\">\n<dt class=\"gallery-icon\">\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/pbs-wnet-preprod.digi-producers.pbs.org\/wnet\/wideangle\/files\/\/home\/wnetwp\/webroot\/wnet\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/2\/files\/2008\/07\/saddamphoto9.jpg\" title=\"The Next Generation\" rel=\"gallery1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs-wnet-preprod.digi-producers.pbs.org\/wnet\/wideangle\/files\/\/home\/wnetwp\/webroot\/wnet\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/2\/files\/2008\/07\/saddamphoto9.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" alt=\"The Next Generation\" \/><\/a>\r\n<\/dt><dd class=\"gallery-caption\" id=\"caption1878\"><span class=\"imagecaption\">The Next Generation<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"imagedescription\">But according to geneticist Christine Gosden, the damage is not limited to those who lived through the attack. High rates of congenital deformity, such as cleft palate, are another indication of permanent genetic damage among the Kurdish people.\r\n\r\n<\/span><br \/>\n<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class=\"gallery-item\">\n<dt class=\"gallery-icon\">\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/pbs-wnet-preprod.digi-producers.pbs.org\/wnet\/wideangle\/files\/\/home\/wnetwp\/webroot\/wnet\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/2\/files\/2008\/07\/saddamphoto10.jpg\" title=\"The Last Generation\" rel=\"gallery1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs-wnet-preprod.digi-producers.pbs.org\/wnet\/wideangle\/files\/\/home\/wnetwp\/webroot\/wnet\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/2\/files\/2008\/07\/saddamphoto10.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" alt=\"The Last Generation\" \/><\/a>\r\n<\/dt><dd class=\"gallery-caption\" id=\"caption1879\"><span class=\"imagecaption\">The Last Generation<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"imagedescription\">In some cases of course, the damage will end with the Halajba generation. Geneticist Christine Gosden reported that of the three babies born at a Kurdistan maternity ward on the day of her visit, all were still-births. 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