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Veterans are demanding Government action to help up to 33,000 ex-soldiers with Gulf War Syndrome. The Royal British Legion wants more research in the UK and for former troops to benefit from US ...
British Gulf War veterans responded to military secrecy by talking among themselves about their health problems. Through rumor, the vets collectively defined the controversial ailment known as ...
Gulf War veterans’ associations say one in six former soldiers are suffering from mystery diseases which they blame on “Gulf War Syndrome,” while more than 600 have died.
A week into the invasion of Iraq and news networks are beaming home images of American and British soldiers donning gas masks and body suits to protect themselves from potential chemical weapons ...
AS Iraqi soldiers dug a huge ditch, one of them broke down in tears and told Clive Earthy that it was for the British Airways crew member being held as a “human shield”. But the young man then ...
Soldiers in the Gulf War were exposed to a wide variety of agents including the nerve gas Sarin, vaccines designed to protect them from biological weapons, and the depleted uranium in tank armor.
BBC News Online looks back at the 1991 Gulf War and its immediate aftermath. Home. ... British and allied planes launched a massive campaign of bombing and missile strikes on targets across Iraq at ...
Clive Earthy, pictured, claims he saw 'military' men get on and off BA Flight 149 when it landed in the war zone Credit: Slky UK Limited ©. This was just one of several occasions when Clive, 82 ...