81. Gulf War Illness The committee was not asked to examine whether a unique gulf war syndrome exists or to review or evaluate the literature on gulf war syndrome or illnesses. http://www4.nationalacademies.org/ocga/testimon.nsf/0/8d33a7176aa3bef08525697a00

82. Gulf War Illness Controversy: Birth Defects (Morgana's Observatory) can cause diseases, says Dr. Howard Urnovitz, a microbiologist who has testified before the Presidential Advisory Committee on gulf war Veterans illnesses. http://www.dreamscape.com/morgana/defects.htm

Victims of a War They Never Saw by Maggie O'Kane Guardian Weekly, Jan. 10, 1999, page 21 The movement inside her body is strange: different from her other children. As Suad Jope waits for her birth-time, she passes the hours and the spasms announcing it by sliding her back along the maternity corridor's grubby cream walls. At 34, and already the mother of three, Suad has been through this all before. Her heavy cotton nightgown is sprinkled with pale apple blossoms and hangs down, almost covering the puffy ankles of a woman approaching labor. That afternoon, her consultant, Dr. Haifa Ashahine had stopped and said: "See, the spine ends here. There is no head." Dr. Ashahine, a senior gynaecologist at the Saddam Hussein Children's Hospital in southern Iraq, is not shocked. If it is not a child without a brain, then maybe it's one with a giant head, stumpy arms like those of a thalidomide victim, two fingers instead of five, a heart with missing valves, missing ears. The deformities have one thing in common: they are congenital. In Iraq the health authorities say that at least three times more children are being born with congenital deformities than before the Gulf War. Now, in both Britain and the United States, veterans of that same war are coming forward with reports of sick and dying children. In Britain the Ministry of Defence has agreed to a $1.3 million independent survey of reproduction that will cover every veteran that served in the Gulf.

83. Gulf War Syndrome & Related Illnesses gulf war Syndrome Related illnesses. Insider Index. Health. Veteran Health Programs. gulf war Syndrome Related illnesses. Go to Resources Homepage. http://www.military.com/Resources/ResourcesContent/0,13964,30985,00.html

Home Resources News Travel ... Community Search Topic Index Choose a Topic Benefits Education Family General Information Health Pay Index Veterans who served in the Persian Gulf War or are provided with free, comprehensive medical examinations, including laboratory and other diagnostic tests deemed by an examining physician necessary to determine health status. ACTIVE DUTY RESERVE NATIONAL GUARD VETERANS RETIREES (Last Updated:16 May, 2003) Registry Programs Veterans who served in the Persian Gulf War or are provided with free, comprehensive medical examinations, including laboratory and other diagnostic tests deemed by an examining physician necessary to determine health status. Results of the examinations, which include review of the veteran’s military service and exposure history, are entered into special, computerized databases, called registries. These databases assist the VA in analyzing the types of health conditions being reported by veterans. Registry participants are advised of the results of their examinations in personal consultations. Veterans wishing to participate should contact the nearest VA health care facility for an examination. The VA operates a toll-free hotline at 800-749-8387 to inform Persian Gulf War veterans about VA programs, their benefits and the latest information on Persian Gulf benefits Persian Gulf veterans who suffer from chronic disabilities resulting from undiagnosed illnesses may receive disability compensation from VA. The undiagnosed illnesses must have appeared either during active duty in the Southwest Asia Theater of Operations during the Persian Gulf War or at any time since, through December 31, 2001. The following symptoms may be manifestations of an undiagnosed illness:

84. Vietnow - Veterans - Vietnam To Now - Veterans Helping Veterans documents (including thousands of captured Iraqi documents) that by the CIA’s own admission may have a bearing on the illnesses plaguing gulf war veterans. http://www.vietnow.com/artgulf2.htm

1835 Broadway Rockford, Illinois 1-800-837-VNOW (in Illinois) or email for more information to vnnatl@inwave.com Some of the issues VietNow is working on: Back to top of page. From the VietNow National Magazine Our Troops Were Exposed to Chemical Weapons During the Gulf War Condensed from an address by Patrick G. Eddington executive director of the National Gulf War Resource Center and author of Gassed in the Gulf Unlike many of you who were sent to the Gulf in the summer and fall of 1990, I remained in Washington, watching the Gulf crisis unfold from my unique vantage point as a military analyst with the Central Intelligence Agency. Prior to hostilities, the American intelligence community was virtually unanimous in its judgment: Saddam was almost certain to use weapons of mass destruction in the conflict. The Coverup Started Early Evidence Starts Showing Up After months of further study, I reached the same conclusion as my Senate staff colleagues: American troops had been exposed to chemical agents, and more ominously, senior officials within the Pentagon were trying to make the issue go away. No One Wanted to Hear the Truth Betrayal LIke This Isn't New And only four years ago did the Pentagon admit that as many as 100,000 Gulf War veterans may have been exposed to chemical agents after the destruction of a single Iraqi ammunition storage depot in March of 1991.

85. Gulf War Syndrome Article cites congressional report by the General Accounting Office criticized the Presidential Advisory Committee on gulf war Veterans illnesses for virtually http://www.tetrahedron.org/articles/gulf_war.html

Call or Chat with a Customer Representative NOW! Dr. Horowitz Speaks on National Television. Mass Murder in Medicine: IN THE NEWS THE APOCALYPSE PREVENTION PROJECT Investigators Conclude Russian Defector is Lead Suspect in Anthrax Mailings Case Socio-Economic and Political Correlates and Antecedents to Epidemic Autism Anthrax Mailings Espionage Special Report ... "Public Health Expert May Have Solved Anthrax Mailing Mystery" Join Our Associate Program Click Here for Details GULF WAR SYNDROME Depleted Uranium and Anglo-American Infanticide in the Wake of the Gulf War (please note, this article contains graphic pictures of deformed children and babies)

86. A Review Of Gulf War Illness 11. Presidential Advisory Committee on gulf war Veterans illnesses Interim Report (Washington, DC US Government Printing Office, February 1996). http://www.mod.uk/issues/gulfwar/map/coker.htm

Webtrendslive tag Dreamweaver roll over script MOD Home Page Defence Issues Gulf Veterans' Illnesses Medical Assessment Programme ... Search Gulf Veterans' Illnesses MEDICAL ASSESSMENT PROGRAMME A Review Of Gulf War Illness by W J Coker OBE Group Captain Coker was head of the Medical Assessment Programme. This paper was first published in the Journal of the Royal Naval Medical Service, Vol 82, Summer 1996, pp. 141-146. INTRODUCTION Approximately 51,000 British troops deployed to the Gulf region in the build up to and during the Gulf War 1990-1991. The air war began on 16 January 1991 and was followed 39 days later by a ground war lasting four days. Combat casualties were far fewer than anticipated and the incidence of non-battle injuries and disease was much lower in comparison with other military campaigns. The conflict was characterised however, by the widely anticipated threat of the use of chemical and biological weapons by Iraq. In response to this threat extensive medical preparations and countermeasures had been made. Following their return from the Gulf region, although the vast majority of veterans remained well and fit for duty, a number of veterans began to report a variety of symptoms with varying degrees of disability. Initially people talked of 'Desert Storm Fever' but later the pattern and variety of illness became known as 'Gulf War Syndrome'. In response to these medical complaints by Gulf veterans, some of whom were still serving, in October 1993 the Ministry of Defence set up the Medical Assessment Programme (MAP). This paper will describe the assessment programme, detail its initial findings and discuss the various current hypotheses which have been advanced to explain the phenomenon of 'Gulf War Syndrome'.

87. 1990/1991 Gulf Veterans' Illnesses What s New. Policy on gulf veterans illnesses. Current British Government policy on 1990/1991 gulf veterans illnesses. MOD s position on gulf war Syndrome . http://www.mod.uk/issues/gulfwar/

Webtrendslive tag Dreamweaver roll over script MOD Home Page Defence Issues Gulf Veterans' Illnesses About Us ... Search Gulf Veterans' Illnesses 1990/1991 GULF CONFLICT - GULF VETERANS' ILLNESSES This website focuses on the ill-health reported by some veterans of the 1990/1991 Gulf Conflict. Anyone requiring information or advice regarding health issues arising from the recent operation in the Gulf (Operation TELIC) should contact the Veterans Policy Unit Gulf Veterans' Illnesses. The British Government is committed to addressing the concerns of veterans of the 1990/1991 Gulf Conflict, and seeks to do so openly, sympathetically and seriously. Please select one of the options below, to find the information you are looking for What's New Policy on Gulf veterans' illnesses Current British Government policy on 1990/1991 Gulf veterans' illnesses. MOD's position on "Gulf War Syndrome". Information and Reports Reports about significant events that occurred during the 1990/1991 Gulf conflict, briefings and reports to the House of Commons Defence Committee, and financial information. Scientific and Medical Research into 1990/1991 Gulf veterans' illnesses Information about completed and ongoing research into veterans' illnesses.

88. Panel Urges Gulf War Illness Research Tens of thousands of gulf war vets the precise number is in dispute returned home with a variety of illnesses, and some have become very sick. http://home.att.net/~vetcenter/urgeresrh.htm

Panel Urges Gulf War Illness Research ASSOCIATED PRESS 3:52 p.m. ET WASHINGTON (AP) A panel advising the Veterans Affairs secretary on Gulf War illness research urged investigation of veterans' neurological problems, more spending for studies and a better plan for carrying them out. The panel was appointed by VA Secretary Anthony Principi to redirect Gulf War illness research, which has yielded few answers for the ailments of sick vets more than a decade after the war. Their suggestions Tuesday recommended spending $450 million over three years on future research, but only after a plan is established to coordinate studies and set objectives and a timeline. James Binns, panel chairman, justified the request by citing the VA's own recent study that acknowledged the possibility of a Gulf War syndrome, with symptoms that appear to be consistent with neurological damage. ``We now have a road map and someone pointing a direction where we can say if we spend money and do research in that direction we will gain insights and results that ultimately lead to treatments,'' said Binns, a Vietnam

89. Straus On Gulf War Illness / RESCIND In January, 1992, unexplained chronic illnesses were recognised among gulf war veterans in an army reserve unit based in Indiana, USA.6 Additional reports of http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/4277/gws-straus.html

R.E.S.C.I.N.D. BRIDGING THE GULF IN WAR SYNDROMES by Dr. Stephn Straus, NIH Lancet, Volume 353, Number 9148, 16 January 1999 Thanks to Mary Schweitzer for making this text available. Over 50000 British, Canadian, and American troops returned from battle as changed men. Once-vital young men who left to engage a foreign tyrant began to complain of breathlessness, grinding fatigue, irritability, headache, insomnia, and paraesthesias, rendering 70% of them unfit for further duty.[1] 5 years later, fewer than one in six had recovered fully.[2] Specialised research units were commissioned and the best medical minds were enlisted to study these men, to formulate therapeutic approaches, and to devise strategies for preventing similar outcomes in future military campaigns. Reports were published of vascular instability, hyperventilation, bacilliuria, and other physiological and laboratory anomalies in the veterans. Some reports claimed that the fear of injury and exposure to poison gas had emotionally crippled these young men, especially those with inherently weak constitutions.[3,4] The year was 1918. And the medical legacies of service in the Great War, as well as the debates about their origins and management, like those documented for other major campaigns since the Crimean War,[5] are as relevant today as then. On Aug 2, 1990, Iraqi troops invaded Kuwait. After 39 days of preparatory bombing, a multinational coalition launched, on Feb 24, 1991, 4 days of crushing land, sea, and air assaults that neutralised Iraqi resistance, and restored Kuwaiti sovereignty. The campaign included some 697000 US troops, 45000 British, and 4500 Canadian. Analysts predicted as many as 40000 Allied casualties, but only 148 men died in combat and 467 were injured among US units. Many more, though, had been drilled to respond to poison-gas attacks, had been vaccinated to withstand likely biological weapons, had witnessed Iraqi corpses littering the desert, had inhaled the smoke from burning oil wells, and had survived SCUD missile attacks.

90. Chemical Weapons Working Group: Gulf War More than 50 years of the Pentagon s reckless behavior on US soil have already resulted in illnesses similar to those experienced by gulf war veterans. http://www.cwwg.org/Gulfwar.html

Gulf War Illness by Melissa Tuckey, KEF Links to More Information on Gulf War Illness Gulf Veterans Sign 1999 Resolution Renewing Opposition to CW Incineration and Advocating Safer Non-incineration Technologies Gulf War Veterans Endorse Health Bill Resolution Opposing the Continuation of the Pentagon's Chemical Weapons Incineration Program and Advocating Safe Disposal of Chemical Warfare Agents signed September 20, 1998 Gulf War Report Links Chronic Illnesses to Chemical Agent Exposure ... Press Releases Gulf War Illness: Coming Soon to a Community Near You? by Melissa Tuckey, Kentucky Environmental Foundation At least 88,000 U.S. Gulf War veterans are complaining of illness since returning from the Gulf five years ago. Some have died. Some illnesses are getting progressively worse. The Pentagon continues to deny medical and disability coverage to veterans and to deny the existence of Gulf War illnesses. If this is how the military "takes care of its own" those of us who live near military toxic sites ought to be very concerned. I recently had the opportunity to meet some of these veterans and their families at the National Gulf War Research Center conference in Tampa

91. Defining Gulf War Illness fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, and multiple chemical sensitivity) to determine which definition best characterized gulf war veterans unexplained illnesses. http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/veterans/default2g.htm

Veterans' Health Content Home Vietnam Studies Gulf War Studies Force Health Protection ... Force Health Protection Gulf War Studies Full Text (PDF) Download Acrobat Reader Defining Gulf War Illness Previous Study Next Study Veterans' Health Home Vietnam Studies ... Health Topics A-Z This page last reviewed November 09, 2002 National Center for Environmental Health Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

92. PRESENCE OF SQUALENE - Breakthrough On Gulf War Illness I have been deeply concerned about this issue since it was first brought to my attention by veterans suffering from gulfwar illnesses, he says in a http://www.insightmag.com/main.cfm?include=detail&storyid=215367

93. OIL FIRES, gulf war ILLNESS. Presidential Advisory Committee on gulf war Veterans’ illnesses Final Report Washington, DC US Government Printing Office, December, 1996. http://www.penfield-gill.com/presentations/CDCall-final.htm

OIL FIRES, PETROLEUM and GULF WAR ILLNESS Gulf War exposure to be considered at: THE CDC CONFERENCE ON THE HEALTH IMPACT OF CHEMICAL EXPOSURES DURING THE GULF WAR Craig F. Stead P. O. Box 1000 Putney, VT 05346 OIL FIRES, PETROLEUM AND GULF WAR ILLNESS Table of Contents: A. U.S. ARMY KUWAIT FIRE HEALTH U.S. Army Environmental Surveillance 11 ACR (ARMORED CALVARY REGIMENT) OIL FIRES, PETROLEUM AND GULF WAR ILLNESS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Gulf War, Operation Desert Storm (ODS) resulted in few direct casualties. However, returning veterans reported a number of symptoms including fatigue, skin rash, muscle and joint pain, headache, loss of memory, shortness of breath, and gastrointestinal problems. Collectively these symptoms and others became known as Gulf War illness. It was speculated the symptoms were a result of exposure to toxins during and immediately after the Gulf War. Identified toxic exposures included the oil field fires, depleted uranium, and low levels of chemical warfare agents. The Gulf War toxic exposures are a vast and complex subject. This is a first overview report on the oil field fires and the relation to Gulf War Illness. The oil field fires caused immense amounts of smoke and an oil rain or mist. The fires generated plumes of smoke that dropped to ground level during air inversions and still winds. Troop reports of battlefield operations in conditions of heavy smoke and petroleum rain verify the severity of the actual exposures to the oil field fires.

94. Gulf War Illness gulf war Illness. gulf war Syndrome is the title given by the media to dramatize the gulf war related illnesses that service personnel were suffering. http://www.britains-smallwars.com/gulf/GVA.htm

Gulf War Illness Gulf War Syndrome is the title given by the media to dramatize the Gulf war related illnesses that service personnel were suffering. The possible causes of Gulf war Illness consist of exposures to chemical and biological warfare agents. The toxic combination of anti-nerve agent pills and OP's and insecticides, large amount of inoculations, smoke, oil well fires and other infectious diseases all played their part. The symptoms consist of differing combinations of extreme fatigue, joint pain, spinal damage, cancers, heart conditions, muscle aches and spasms, gastro-intestinal disorders, nausea and vomiting, diarrhea, headaches, fevers, neurological problems, birth defects and memory and concentration problems. Recent studies in America point to brain damage and gene manipulation due to the onslaught of toxins to the body's immune system. The Gulf war Veterans Association was formed at the end of November 1994 by veterans of the Gulf War, to support and act for all Veterans of that war, whether Army, Navy, RAF or civilian. Membership since that time has now grown to two thousand. These members cover the full spectrum of the armed services plus Royal Feet Auxiliary and civilians both in Britain and abroad as well as those who have joined in memory of their loved ones lost due to the conflict. All different, but all the same, and all concerned and caring for each other. In 1996 The Gulf war Veterans

95. Resources For Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) & Fibromyalgia (FMS) Although there are no markers for either CFIDS or gulf war Syndrome, there may be several advantages for the connection found between the two illnesses. . http://www.immunesupport.com/news/96jan002.htm

96. Study May Link Gulf War, Vet Illnesses Study may link gulf war, vet illnesses. WASHINGTON (AP) Persian gulf war veterans who were near an accidental release of nerve http://www.lubbockonline.com/news/012297/studymay.htm

Study may link gulf war, vet illnesses WASHINGTON (AP) - Persian Gulf War veterans who were near an accidental release of nerve gas in Iraq show a higher rate of muscle and bone ailments than those farther away, a top veterans official said Tuesday. The Veterans Affairs Department identified 81 gulf veterans who were part of a weapons demolition team that blew up shells later found to contain deadly sarin nerve gas. Of that group, 31 percent ''have been diagnosed with musculoskeletal conditions at a higher rate than veterans who were farther away,'' Dr. Kenneth Kizer, the VA's top health official told a House panel. The results are preliminary, Kizer cautioned. They concern soldiers involved in the demolition of Iraqi weapons at a site called Kamisiyah in March 1991, just after the war. Test results on these 81 soldiers ''cannot be generalized to the entire Kamisiyah group or considered definitive,'' he said. Nevertheless, they bolster the arguments of veterans and lawmakers who argue that exposure to chemical weapons during the gulf war may explain various ailments suffered by thousands of veterans. The ailments, known collectively as gulf war syndrome, include headache, insomnia, muscle ache, joint pain, stomach disorder and chronic fatigue. The VA has conducted diagnostic examinations of more than 52,000 gulf veterans. Of those, 1,978 were within 31 miles of Kamisiyah and 81 were at the scene of the demolition operations. The soldiers thought they were blowing up conventional munitions. Only last year did the Pentagon confirm reports that some of the warheads contained sarin.

97. Dear Gulf War Illness Patient Dear gulf war Illness Patient We at the Institute for Molecular Medicine have been working with physicians (and now veterinarians) who have patients with http://www.gulfwarvets.com/letter2.htm

Dear Gulf War Illness Patient: The Institute for Molecular Medicine is a nonprofit corporation that is recognized by the Federal Government as a charitable organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the tax laws. As such we ask you to consider membership in our 'Friends of the Institute's support program. Members of this group can receive blood tests for infections and advice on their illnesses. We take pride in the accuracy of our procedures, and we are rare in the diagnostic area because of our assistance to patients after their tests have been completed. We have also formed a for-profit company, Molecular Med, Inc. to commercialize the products of the Institute. In the attached materials you will find all the information and forms necessary to avail yourself of various tests that could be vitally important in you or your pets recovery. Sincerely, Prof. Garth L Nicolson Chief Scientific Officer and Research Professor Professor of Internal Medicine Web Site: http://www.immed.org Gulf War Vets Home Page.

98. Gulf War Syndrome gulf war syndrome medical information and links gulf war syndrome. gulf war Syndrome. gulf war Syndrome. gulf war Syndrome Skeptic's page. gulf war Syndrome Appears Contagious, Survey Shows http://www.doctorpage.com/Diseases_and_Conditions/html/gulf_war_syndrome.htm

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99. Gulf War Illness Update Institute of Medicine). Chamber House. Committee Veterans Affairs Committee. Subject gulf war Illness Update. Statement of Donald http://www4.nationalacademies.org/ocga/testimon.nsf/0/1524f74a5e9bec77852565fc00

100. Doctors Seek Cause Of Gulf War Illness Doctors Seek Cause of gulf war Illness. Part of the problem, many gulf war illness experts say, is that most people have the wrong idea about stress. http://home.att.net/~vetcenter/seekcase.htm

Doctors Seek Cause of Gulf War Illness By MATT CRENSON .c The Associated Press To veterans it is a cruel mystery: Which of the countless pesticides, pollutants, microbes and poisons they encountered during the Persian Gulf War has left one in seven of them sick with a debilitating and persistent illness? On Capitol Hill it is an outrage: Why, after spending more than $200 million on hundreds of studies, can't the Pentagon and the Department of Veterans Affairs determine what pollutant or microbe is causing the panoply of symptoms known as Gulf War illness? Most scientists who have studied the chronic health problems of Gulf War veterans say they have the answers to both questions: There is no environmental toxin or infectious agent to blame. A decade of research overwhelmingly points to another cause - stress. Yet many veterans and their advocates don't believe it. ``I know a lot of people who are sick, and stress is not what's killing them,'' said Stephen L. Robinson, who served in special forces during the Gulf War and now heads an advocacy group for ill veterans. ``Stress is the last thing we should be looking at.'' Part of the problem, many Gulf War illness experts say, is that most people have the wrong idea about stress. Many veterans think experts are telling them their illness is all in their heads, that they are imagining their symptoms.

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