DWE reports:
Dr. Lafta has now been allowed to visit Canada, where he is meeting with researchers from the University of Washington and Simon Fraser University. On Friday, he'll be participating in a live interactive webcast.
Dr. Riyadh Lafta
Al Mustansiriya University, Baghdad Iraq
"Death in Iraq"
Friday, July 20, 2007, 7:00 pmLive interactive Webcast in Seattle:
UW School of Social Work, Room 305, 4101 15th Ave NEIn Person:
Wosk Center for Dialogue, 518 W. Hastings St. Vancouver BC, CANADA
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The Globe and Mail has a story about Riyadh Lafta:
Riyadh Lafta, who co-authored a controversial study that estimated the war-related deaths at more than half a million, had planned to tell students at Simon Fraser University about his work and then spend a week in retreat near West Vancouver,…
The Globe and Mail reports:
After he couldn't get a visa to tell Americans about an alarming rise in cancer levels among Iraqi children, a renowned Iraqi epidemiologist has been told he can't fly through Britain en route to give a similar talk in Canada.
Riyadh Lafta -- best known for a…
The Globe and Mail has more details about Lafta's visit to Simon Fraser:
A highly regarded Iraqi epidemiologist who wants to tell Americans about an alarming rise in cancer levels among Iraqi children will come to Canada instead because he couldn't get a visa to the United States.
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CBC radio's As It Hsppens had an interview with him yesterday (the 19th). Unfrotunately,it doesn't seem to have made it to the podcast.
Minor point, but you've misspelled his name. Or your source has. It might matter in google searches, or might not, since google provided the alternate spelling when I looked.
Main link to CBC listing here.
Audio available on the first 6 minutes of this.
Nothing particularly noteworthy. Some discussion of his latest work, funded by the Gates Foundation, on the increase in childhood cancers in Basra.