Ramsey Clark tours Iraq; 100,000 dead due sanctions

More than 100,000 Iraqis died during the past 8 months because of the embargo imposed on Iraq, according to the Iraqi ministry of health on Wednesday.

In a statement, the ministry added that "the continued besiege resulted in the death of 102,512 citizens during the period from the beginning of December 2001 until the end of July 2002."

Within the same context, the former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark who is also the founder of International Action Center made a tour on several hospitals in al-Basra province to the south of Iraq, and he saw many deformed births and cancer patients among citizens because of the use of the depleted Uranium, according to the Iraqi news agency.

Former U.S. Attorney General Clark had previously said that "An attack on Iraq by the United States would also violate the Constitution and laws of the United States ... Unfortunately in recent years our Constitution has been more honored in the breach than in faithful observance of the rights it is intended to protect for all. But the effort to hold accountable any U.S. authority who participates in an assault against Iraq will be made here by those who love their country and for that reason insist that its acts be just."