Iraqi doctor denied visit to Seattle medical conference

[deminks]

http://www.theolympian.com/130/story/85811.html

The Associated Press

An Iraqi doctor who concluded that more Iraqi civilians have died in the war than has been reported has been prevented from attending a medical conference at the University of Washington.

Riyadh Lafta had been scheduled to give a lecture Friday evening at the Seattle campus but his visa to this country has not been approved. The State Department cited miscommunication as the reason for the delay.

Lafta is an epidemiologist who teaches at Al-Mustansiriya University College of Medicine in Baghdad. He co-wrote an October 2006 article that concluded nearly 655,000 Iraqis have died since the war began in March 2003. The article appeared in the British medical journal, The Lancet.

The findings were 10 times greater than other studies, said Tim Takaro, an associate professor of health sciences at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia.

[meow mix]

1. better drill some holes in his f-ing feet

get something out of him. hes gotta be guilty of 911 were at war with iraq after all.


/sarcasm