2007-06-02 | The term “Gulf War Syndrome” is now known world-wide – but - after the 1991
Iraq war, as formerly A1 fit soldiers fell ill with debilitating symptoms,
in their thousands, the cause was, for two years, a "mystery". | | It was in 1993, when a group of twenty-four affected soldiers approached Professor Asav Durakovic, one of the world's leading experts in the effects of radiation, that a cause came to light. They had many times the “safe” level of chemically toxic and radioactive depleted uranium (DU) in their bodies.
Duracovic, although a senior officer in the US army during the first Gulf war, had been unaware that the weapons used had contained depleted uranium. “I was horrified”, he said: “I was a soldier, but above all I am a doctor.” By 1997, it was estimated that ninety thousand US veterans were suffering from Gulf War Syndrome.
| | Photo of an Iraqi child-victim of “Depleted” Uranium.
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