By Charles Aldinger WASHINGTON (Reuter) – A congressional report Monday criticized the Defense Department and a White House panel looking into the ills of Gulf War veterans, warning that Iraqi chemical and biological agents cannot yet be discounted as possible culprits. The report by the General Accounting Office, the investigating arm of Congress, also said there was “substantial evidence” that fertilizer compounds used in the Gulf could be associated with problems similar to those of the veterans. The report criticized the... Read More

By Hugh Mcmanners, Defence Correspondent. Sunday times 22th June 1997. BRITISH scientists believe they have pinpointed a medical cause for Gulf war syndrome in a breakthrough which could force the Ministry of Defense into paying tens of millions of pounds in compensation. Immunologists at University College London say they have for the first time established how vaccinations given to troops in the war against Iraq, combined with exposure to insecticides, could cause the symptoms afflicting many hundreds of British veterans. The MoD, which has... Read More

Drs. Garth and Nancy Nicolson (formerly with the University of Texas, Medical School at Houston, Houston, TX 77030) among the leading authorities on the subject of Gulf War related illnesses, is pleased to announce the founding of The Institute for Molecular Medicine, a not-for-profit private institute dedicated to discovering new diagnostic and therapeutic solutions for chronic human diseases. For information on the biologic agents associated with Gulf War related illnesses, and standard treatment recommendations for physicians treating... Read More

By Philip Shenon c.1996 N.Y. Times News Service WASHINGTON — Two intelligence analysts who resigned earlier this year from the CIA say the agency possesses dozens of classified documents showing that tens of thousands of Americans may have been exposed to Iraqi chemical weapons during the Persian Gulf war in 1991. The husband-and-wife intelligence analysts, Patrick and Robin Eddington, say that while investigating the issue at the CIA, they turned up evidence of as many as 60 incidents in which nerve gas and other chemical weapons were... Read More

Mary Christine, MSW, holds a Master of Social Work degree as well as a BA in Psychology with a minor in Human Biology. Christine got CFS (Chronic Fatigue Syndrome) in October of 1990 after having mycoplasmic pneumonia and was quite debilitated for about a year. Her strength and endurance slowly improved with rest etc. over time. She had been functioning very well for the past few years and until recently she was working as a therapist for adolescents. However, Christine recently had a relapse after having a cough, a high fever for four days, and... Read More

Ross B. Mirkarimi, of the Arms Control Research Centre, reported in May 1992, the following hideous: �Environmental and Human Health Impacts of the Gulf Region with Special Reference to Iraq�–Abnomalities of Western Gulf War Veterans� Children From Depleted Uranium (DU) Weapons Used By the U.S. and British Military During the Gulf War. From the President of the International Yellow Cross, Dr. Gunther, for Worldwide Dissemination. (Warning: the following photographs are extremely disturbing. They vividly portray the ravages of... Read More