US BOMBS Khamisiyah, Cache Containing SARIN 100k Troops Exposed

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''The bunker had contained chemical munitions.
We destroyed the bunker.''

http://www.citizen-soldier.org/images/sarinmap.jpg

"more than 100,000 American troops may have been exposed"






http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A03E5DD1031F934A25756C0A9619C8B 63


Troops' Exposure to Nerve Gas Could Have Caused Brain Damage, Scientists Say

By IAN URBINA

Published: May 17, 2007




Scientists working with the Defense Department have found evidence that a low-level exposure to sarin nerve gas -- the kind experienced by more than 100,000 American troops in the Persian Gulf war of 1991 -- could have caused lasting brain deficits in former service members.


Though the results are preliminary, the study is notable for being financed by the federal government and for being the first to make use of a detailed analysis of sarin exposure performed by the Pentagon, based on wind patterns and plume size.


The report, to be published in the June issue of the journal NeuroToxicology, found apparent changes in the brain's connective tissue -- its so-called white matter -- in soldiers exposed to the gas. The extent of the brain changes -- less white matter and slightly larger brain cavities -- corresponded to the extent of exposure, the study found.


Previous studies had suggested that exposure affected the brain in some neural regions, but the evidence was not convincing to many scientists. The new report is likely to revive the long-debated question of why so many troops returned from that war with unexplained physical problems. Many in the scientific community have questioned whether the so-called gulf war illnesses have a physiological basis, and far more research will have to be done before it is known whether those illnesses can be traced to exposure to sarin. The long-term effects of sarin on the brain are still not well understood.


But several lawmakers who were briefed on the study say the Department of Veterans Affairs is now obligated to provide increased neurological care to veterans who may have been exposed.


In March 1991, a few days after the end of the gulf war, American soldiers exploded two large caches of ammunition and missiles in Khamisiyah, Iraq. Some of the missiles contained the dangerous nerve gases sarin and cyclosarin. Based on wind patterns and the size of the plume, the Department of Defense has estimated that more than 100,000 American troops may have been exposed to at least small amounts of the gases.


When the roughly 700,000 deployed troops returned home, about one in seven began experiencing a mysterious set of ailments, often called gulf war illnesses, with problems including persistent fatigue, chronic headaches, joint pain and nausea. Those symptoms persist today for more than 150,000 of them, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs, more than the number of troops exposed to the gases.


Advocates for veterans have argued for more than a decade and a half that a link exists between many of these symptoms and the exposure that occurred in Khamisiyah, but evidence has been limited.


The study, financed by the Department of Veterans Affairs and the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is the first to use Pentagon data on potential exposure levels faced by the troops and magnetic resonance imaging to scan the brains of military personnel in the exposure zone. It found signs of brain changes that could be due to exposure, showing that troops who had been exposed at higher levels had about 5 percent less white matter than those who had little exposure.


White matter volume varies by individual, but studies have shown that significant shrinkage in adulthood can be a sign of damage.


The study was led by Roberta F. White, chairman of the department of environmental health at the Boston University School of Public Health. Dr. White and other researchers studied 26 gulf war veterans, half of whom were exposed to the gases, according to a Defense Department modeling of the likely chemical makeup and location of the plume. The researchers found that troops with greater potential exposure had less white matter.


In a companion study, the researchers also tested 140 troops believed to have experienced differing degrees of exposure to the chemical agents to check their fine motor coordination and found a direct relation between performance level and the level of potential exposure. Individuals who were potentially more exposed to the gases had a deterioration in fine motor skills, performing such tests at a level similar to people 20 years older.


Dr. White says this study and the results of research from other studies provide ''converging evidence that some gulf war veterans experienced nervous system damage as a result of service, and this is an important development in explaining gulf war illnesses.''


Phil Budahn, a spokesman for the Department of Veterans Affairs, said the research required further examination.
''It's important to note that its authors describe the study as inconclusive,'' Mr. Budahn said, adding, ''It was based upon a small number of participants, who were not randomly chosen.''

Dr. White said she did not describe her study as inconclusive, though she said it would be accurate to call it preliminary.
Lea Steele, a Kansas State University epidemiologist and the scientific director of the veterans department's advisory committee on gulf war illnesses, said she thought the study was extremely important. Dr. Steele said that gulf war illnesses had been described by their symptoms, but that until now scientists had struggled to find physiological conditions that corresponded with those symptoms.





http://www.nytimes.com/1996/12/06/us/bunker-s-contents-described.html


Bunker's Contents Described

By PHILIP SHENON

Published: December 6, 1996





WASHINGTON, Dec. 5— The Pentagon said today that the nerve gas sarin and other chemical weapons had definitely been stored at an Iraqi ammunition depot that was destroyed by American troops in March 1991, an event that may have exposed thousands of soldiers to a cloud of the deadly chemicals.

Bernard D. Rostker, the Defense Department official who oversees the department's investigation of gulf war illnesses, said United Nations inspectors who visited the site after the war had ''drilled into a rocket and sarin spurted out of that rocket.''

''So sarin was present, and they did find a cache of mustard gas,'' Mr. Rostker said at a Pentagon news conference, in the most graphic description yet of the evidence gathered by the United Nations. ''The bunker had contained chemical munitions. We destroyed the bunker.''

Pentagon officials also revealed today that the now-missing entries in a chemical-warfare log from the Persian Gulf war had been recorded not only on paper, but also on computer disks.
On Wednesday Pentagon officials revealed that logs for an eight-day period were missing. The gap has alarmed veterans groups, which say the Defense Department may be hiding evidence of other incidents in which troops were exposed to Iraqi chemical or biological weapons.
''The main problem we've had, as I understand it, is that there are gaps on computer disks that are supposed to hold some of these logs, and we don't know why those gaps exist,'' said Kenneth Bacon, the Pentagon's chief spokesman. ''But I want to refocus on the main point: we are not withholding information that people might have been exposed to chemicals.''

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United States Support for Iraq During the Iran-Iraq War (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_support_for_Iraq_during_the_Iran%E2% 80%93Iraq_war)



According to Russ Baker, writing in the Columbia Journalism Review, a "vast network" based in the U.S. and elsewhere, fed Iraq's warring capabilities right up until August 1990, when Saddam invaded Kuwait.[34]

Sarkis Soghanalian[edit source]
MD 500 Defender: Iraq acquired 60 multi-role military helicopters directly from the United States in 1983. Additional helicopter sales prompted congressional opposition, forcing the Reagan administration to explore alternative ways of assisting Saddam.[3]

Alan Friedman writes that Sarkis Soghanalian, one of the most notorious arms dealers during the Cold War, procured Eastern Bloc and French origin weaponry, and brokered vast deals with Iraq, with the tacit approval of the Central Intelligence Agency.[3]

The most prominent [arms merchant] was Sarkis Soghanalian, a Miami-based former CIA contractor who brokered tens of billions of dollars' worth of military hardware for Iraq during the 1980s, reporting many of his transactions to officials in Washington. [Soghanalian] was close to the Iraqi leadership and to intelligence officers and others in the Reagan administration. In many respects he was the living embodiment of plausible deniability, serving as a key conduit for CIA and other U.S. government operations. p. 36

In an interview with William Kistner, Soghanalian stated that he was "working closely with the U.S. government".[35] According to Timmerman, Soghanalian also helped the Iraqis obtain TOW anti-tank missiles, for which he was later prosecuted by the United States Department of Justice.[4]

Banca Nazionale del Lavoro[edit source]

The "Iraqgate"scandal revealed that a branch of Italy's largest bank, Banca Nazionale del Lavoro (BNL), in Atlanta, Georgia relied partially on U.S. taxpayer-guaranteed loans to funnel $5 billion to Iraq from 1985 to 1989. In August 1989, when FBI agents raided the Atlanta branch of BNL, branch manager Christopher Drogoul was charged with making unauthorized, clandestine, and illegal loans to Iraq – some of which, according to his indictment, were used to purchase arms and weapons technology.[36] The CIA had previously concealed this information from the Congress, according to senior analyst Melvin A. Goodman.[37]

According to the Financial Times, the companies involved in the scandal by shipping militarily useful technology to Iraq were Hewlett-Packard, Tektronix, and Matrix Churchill's Ohio branch.[34]

Even before the Persian Gulf War started in 1990, the Intelligencer Journal of Pennsylvania in a string of articles reported: "If U.S. and Iraqi troops engage in combat in the Persian Gulf, weapons technology developed in Lancaster and indirectly sold to Iraq will probably be used against U.S. forces ... And aiding in this ... technology transfer was the Iraqi-owned, British-based precision tooling firm Matrix Churchill, whose U.S. operations in Ohio were recently linked to a sophisticated Iraqi weapons procurement network."[34]

"One entire facility, a tungsten-carbide manufacturing plant that was part of the Al Atheer complex," Kenneth Timmerman informed the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, "was blown up by the IAEA in April 1992 because it lay at the heart of the Iraqi clandestine nuclear weapons program, PC-3. Equipment for this plant appears to have been supplied by the Latrobe, Pennsylvania manufacturer, Kennametal, and by a large number of other American companies, with financing provided by the Atlanta branch of the BNL bank."[38]

Aside from the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and ABC's Ted Koppel, the Iraq-gate story never picked up much momentum, even though the U.S. Congress became involved with the scandal. See an article by journalist William Safire, introduced into the Congressional Record by Rep. Tom Lantos.[36]

By contrast, Alcolac International, a Maryland company, transported thiodiglycol, a mustard gas precursor, to Iraq. Alcolac was successfully prosecuted for its violations of export control law.

Index of American companies[edit source]

According to German daily newspaper Die Tageszeitung, which is reported to have reviewed an uncensored copy of Iraq's 11,000-page declaration to the U.N. Security Council in 2002, almost 150 foreign companies supported Saddam Hussein's WMD program. Twenty-four U.S. firms were involved in exporting materials to Baghdad.[39] An even longer list of American companies and their involvements in Iraq was provided by the LA Weekly in May 2003.[40]


Khamisiyah (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khamisiyah)


Persian Gulf War[edit source]

The Khamisiya Ammunition Storage Facility was a site approximately 25 square kilometres in area and consisted of two sections: one of 88 warehouses; the other of 100 hardened concrete bunkers surrounded by an earth berm and security fencing.[2] The storage complex was in use by 1982.[1]

In March 1991, combat engineers and Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) teams of the U.S. Army, conducted a demolition operation. The entire storage complex, containing massive quantities of munitions, was set to be destroyed. On 10 March, all explosive charges were detonated, and witnesses stated that the resultant explosion yielded an impressive mushroom cloud. It has not been confirmed how this explosion affected Iraqi civilians in the area, if at all.

It was not known at the time, but destruction of ordnance at Khamisiya is thought to have consequently released nerve agents such as sarin and cyclosarin into the atmosphere. Computer-generated models based on atmospheric conditions project that clouds of nerve agents would have drifted south and reached allied troops.[2] Records also show that Nuclear, Biological, Chemical (NBC) sensors monitoring the air soon reported traces of nerve agents. These NBC detection units were military units of several allied countries, including the United States, United Kingdom, and Poland.


Video Evidence of [U.S.] Chemical Weapons at Khamisiyah (the bunkers were all rigged to explode or bombed, people down wind when the Chemical Alarms sounded were told to ignore them that they were from burning oil wells. Many got sick and died as a result from Sarin and Clyclosarin exposure... as well as other biologicals and nerve agents... even if they had not ignored the Chemical Alarms their MOPP suits were defective]


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGjB_6YpUrw


Gulf War II - Defective Gas Masks, Duct Tape, Disabilities, Death
(http://rense.com/general33/dsdne.htm)


"GAS, GAS, GAS", those three words elicit immediate fear and action. If these words or any other alarm from a "siren" to "banging on metal" are heard military personnel must stop breathing while putting on their gas mask and securing it within 9 seconds. Then they must put on their chemical protective clothing "MOPP suit" within 5 to 7 minutes.

The purpose of this equipment is to prevent breathing in and prevent skin contact with chemical, biological, or radiological poisons that may be used during Gulf War II or future battles by either Iraqi, the United States, or other nations. You must use both pieces of equipment to survive and they must not be defective!

The essential life-saving assumption is that the gas mask and MOPP suit will work when you wear it. However, the Army's M40 series and the Navy's gas mask both leak when you move your jaw or head and when you sweat. Most of the masks also have numerous tears and holes in them. United States General Accounting Office investigators, U.S. Army reports, congressional testimony, and soldiers complaints have verified that the gas masks are defective and leak. These same reports have verified that over a quarter million MOPP suits that are defective have been issued to our troops, but they can't be located.

.....

Exposures during GULF WAR I (August 1990 - November 1991) caused in part by use of these same defective gas masks have resulted in over 159,238 Gulf War veterans on permanent disability, and over 8013 dead as of May 2002. This casualty count is still increasing. (Veteran's Benefit Administration, Office of Performance Analysis and Integrity Data and information System, May 2002 Gulf War Veterans Information, September 10, 2002). Today, the entire Persian Gulf region still is a toxic and environmental wasteland because the chemical, biological, and radiological contamination dispersed during Gulf War I was never cleaned up.


Not to mention their poisoned seed.

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The US Intelligence Community (IC) (1) (https://www.cia.gov/library/reports/general-reports-1/gulfwar/whiteper/index.htm#rft1)has assessed that

Iraq did not use chemical weapons during the Gulf war.

However, based on a comprehensive review of intelligence information and relevant information made available by the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM), we conclude that

chemical warfare (CW) agent was released as a result of US

postwar demolition of rockets with chemical warheads in a bunker (called Bunker 73 by Iraq) and a pit in an area known as Khamisiyah.

https://www.cia.gov/library/reports/general-reports-1/gulfwar/whiteper/index.htm (https://www.cia.gov/library/reports/general-reports-1/gulfwar/whiteper/index.htm)

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al - Kham-i-si-yah

I'll Come & See Ya!

http://www.pronouncehow.com/english/khamisiyah_pronunciation

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An excellent documentary on the subject-


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZVOOmi9gDE

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I thought everyone knew this .

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I thought everyone knew this .

Working on that.

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I thought everyone knew this .

I know about it. My ex-husband was an engineer in Iraq in Mar 1991. War sucks. We really shouldn't get involved for any reason other than our own national defense.

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Did they ever explain why all the people and the animals were dead when they first went in? The last I remember hearing about that was when the internet was young. Someone, I think from the CIA, testified that it was just that time of year when things die in the desert. For real. I remember reading that testimony. I also remember reading my husbands letters telling me about it at the time. He was one of the first in. I remember he was between 1st AD & 3rd ID, but I can't remember which he was attached to.

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Gulf War Syndrome
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War_syndrome

Ashamed... of all the tragedies of the Washington Psychos running their false for-profit wars, this one takes the cake. As we all know, there's NO rule of law left in America.

Amiriyah shelter bombing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiriyah_shelter_bombing

aerial attack that killed more than 408 civilians Public Shelter Number 25

Here's the Rat-Fuck son of a bitch that got away with murdering of 100s of civilians



Charles E. Allen


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7e/Allen_2005.jpg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Allen_2005.jpg)



Charles E. Allen

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GIVE OBAMA AUTHORITY TO CONDUCT MILITARY OPERATION IN SYRIA?



YES 8.05% (23,533 votes)

NO 91.95% (268,867 votes)

Total Votes: 292,400

http://www.drudgereport.com/

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http://www.policymic.com/articles/61807/happy-airstrike-eve-everyone


But only if you don’t understand how your killing tools work. For any politician or flag officer reading, consider the al-Khamisiyah incident (https://www.cia.gov/library/reports/general-reports-1/gulfwar/555/425055597.html). Today’s generals and admirals were junior officers during Operation Desert Storm (http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=45404), so they should know about this. Unfortunately though, it’s likely that many don’t.


Any airstrike (with the bombs known in the U.S. inventory)
carried out on a chemical bunker complex
would not destroy the targeted munitions,
but instead would create a plume of agent
just as we did at the al Khamisiyah Complex in 1991.


Happy Airstrike Eve, Everyone



2 days ago

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Modeling the Chemical Warfare Agent Release at the Khamisiyah Pit

https://www.cia.gov/library/reports/general-reports-1/gulfwar/555/425055597.html


4 September 1997
Introductory Note

As part of CIA's and DoD's continued work to support US Government efforts related to the issue of Gulf war veterans' illnesses, this paper highlights the joint CIA-DoD efforts to model the release of chemical warfare agents from the Khamisiyah pit. This modeling exercise has been a joint effort, with significant coordination among multiple agencies and hundreds of people, with expertise ranging from upper atmospheric conditions to soil characteristics. Since 21 July 1997 we have provided many briefings to Secretary Cohen and the Joint Chiefs, DCI Tenet, Senator Rudman, the staff of the National Security Council, the Presidential Advisory Committee, Congressional staffers, representatives from veterans' organizations, and the media. This report is our effort to make this information as widely available as possible.



also related at cia.gov

Khamisiyah: A Historical Perspective (https://www.cia.gov/library/reports/general-reports-1/gulfwar/whiteper/index.htm)

Persian Gulf Veterans Illnesses — Central Intelligence Agency (https://www.cia.gov/news-information/speeches-testimony/1996/exdir_speech_110196.html)



RAND I hope you're paying attention... excellent filibuster fodder.

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http://www.gulflink.osd.mil/khamisiyah_iii/
Case Narrative
US Demolition Operations at Khamisiyah
Final Report

April 16, 2002

Many veterans of the Gulf War have expressed concern that their unexplained illnesses may result from their experiences in that war. In response to veterans’ concerns, the Department of Defense established a task force in June 1995 to investigate those incidents and circumstances relating to possible causes. The Special Assistant to the Deputy Secretary of Defense for Gulf War Illnesses took over responsibility for these investigations on November 12, 1996. Effective April 5, 2001, the Special Assistant to the Under Secretary of Defense (Personnel and Readiness) for Gulf War Illnesses, Medical Readiness, and Military Deployments, assumed continued responsibility for Gulf War issues.

Case narratives are reports of what the Department of Defense knows today about specific events that took place during Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm of 1990 and 1991. This particular case narrative focuses on the only known destruction of Iraq's chemical warfare agents by US ground forces during or after the Gulf War. The Department published interim narratives on this subject in February 1997 and December 2000. This is a final report because no new information has been received to change the findings and assessments of the narrative. As always, if you believe you have information that may change this case narrative, please call:

1-800-497-6261

William Winkenwerder, Jr., MD
Assistant Secretary of Defense (Health Affairs) and
Special Assistant to the Under Secretary of Defense (Personnel and Readiness)
for Gulf War Illnesses, Medical Readiness, and Military Deployments
US Department of Defense
2001131-0000012 Ver. 3.0


TABLE OF CONTENTS



I. METHODOLOGY (http://www.gulflink.osd.mil/khamisiyah_iii/khamisiyah_iii_s01.htm#I.%20METHODOLOGY)

II. SUMMARY (http://www.gulflink.osd.mil/khamisiyah_iii/khamisiyah_iii_s02.htm#II)
A. United States Military Operations at Khamisiyah (http://www.gulflink.osd.mil/khamisiyah_iii/khamisiyah_iii_s02.htm#II_A)
B. United Nations Special Commission on Iraq Inspections at Khamisiyah (http://www.gulflink.osd.mil/khamisiyah_iii/khamisiyah_iii_s02.htm#II_B)
C. The United States Government Response Regarding Illnesses of Gulf War Veterans (http://www.gulflink.osd.mil/khamisiyah_iii/khamisiyah_iii_s02.htm#II_C)

III. NARRATIVE (http://www.gulflink.osd.mil/khamisiyah_iii/khamisiyah_iii_s03.htm#III)
A. Background
(http://www.gulflink.osd.mil/khamisiyah_iii/khamisiyah_iii_s03.htm#III_A)B. Pre-Desert Shield Period: May 1976 – August 1990 (http://www.gulflink.osd.mil/khamisiyah_iii/khamisiyah_iii_s03.htm#III_B)
C. Desert Shield/Desert Storm Period: August 1990 – February 1991 (http://www.gulflink.osd.mil/khamisiyah_iii/khamisiyah_iii_s03.htm#III_C)
1. Key Military Units Involved (http://www.gulflink.osd.mil/khamisiyah_iii/khamisiyah_iii_s03.htm#III_C1)
2. Key Events (http://www.gulflink.osd.mil/khamisiyah_iii/khamisiyah_iii_s03.htm#III_C2)
D. Demolition Operations: March – April 1991 (http://www.gulflink.osd.mil/khamisiyah_iii/khamisiyah_iii_s04.htm#III_D)
1. From March 1 to March 23: XVIII Airborne Corps Operations (http://www.gulflink.osd.mil/khamisiyah_iii/khamisiyah_iii_s04.htm#III_D1)
2. From March 24 to April 7: 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment Operations (http://www.gulflink.osd.mil/khamisiyah_iii/khamisiyah_iii_s04.htm#III_D3)
E. United Nations Special Commission on Iraq Inspections: 1991 – 1992
(http://www.gulflink.osd.mil/khamisiyah_iii/khamisiyah_iii_s05.htm#III_E)F. Heightened Government Interest and Congressional Action: 1993 – 1994 (http://www.gulflink.osd.mil/khamisiyah_iii/khamisiyah_iii_s05.htm#III_F)
G. Intensive United States Government Efforts Commenced: 1995
(http://www.gulflink.osd.mil/khamisiyah_iii/khamisiyah_iii_s05.htm#III_G)H. Department of Defense Announced Possible Chemical Weapons at Khamisiyah: January – September 1996 (http://www.gulflink.osd.mil/khamisiyah_iii/khamisiyah_iii_s05.htm#III_H)
I. Determining Possible Troop Exposure: October 1996 – December 1997 (http://www.gulflink.osd.mil/khamisiyah_iii/khamisiyah_iii_s05.htm#III_I)
J. Remodeling Effort: January 1998 – March 2000 (http://www.gulflink.osd.mil/khamisiyah_iii/khamisiyah_iii_s05.htm#III_J)

IV. ANALYSIS (http://www.gulflink.osd.mil/khamisiyah_iii/khamisiyah_iii_s06.htm#IV)

V. ASSESSMENT (http://www.gulflink.osd.mil/khamisiyah_iii/khamisiyah_iii_s07.htm#V)

VI. LESSONS LEARNED
(http://www.gulflink.osd.mil/khamisiyah_iii/khamisiyah_iii_s08.htm#VI)A. Limited Resources for Assigned Mission
(http://www.gulflink.osd.mil/khamisiyah_iii/khamisiyah_iii_s08.htm#VI_A)B. Reporting on Iraq’s Chemical Warfare Agent Munitions Markings (http://www.gulflink.osd.mil/khamisiyah_iii/khamisiyah_iii_s08.htm#VI_B)
C. Monitoring and Analyzing Post-War Events (http://www.gulflink.osd.mil/khamisiyah_iii/khamisiyah_iii_s08.htm#VI_C)
D. Chemical Weapon and Chemical Warfare Agent Detection Equipment (http://www.gulflink.osd.mil/khamisiyah_iii/khamisiyah_iii_s08.htm#VI_D)

TAB A – Acronyms, Abbreviations, and Glossary (http://www.gulflink.osd.mil/khamisiyah_iii/khamisiyah_iii_taba.htm#TABA)
TAB B – Units Involved (http://www.gulflink.osd.mil/khamisiyah_iii/khamisiyah_iii_tabb.htm#TABB)
TAB C – Bibliography (http://www.gulflink.osd.mil/khamisiyah_iii/khamisiyah_iii_tabc.htm)
TAB D – Methodology for Chemical Warfare Incident Investigation (http://www.gulflink.osd.mil/khamisiyah_iii/khamisiyah_iii_tabd.htm)
TAB E – Methodology for Modeling a Possible Chemical Warfare Agent Release (http://www.gulflink.osd.mil/khamisiyah_iii/khamisiyah_iii_tabe.htm)
TAB F – Determining Troop Unit Locations (http://www.gulflink.osd.mil/khamisiyah_iii/khamisiyah_iii_tabf.htm)
TAB G – Other Khamisiyah-Related Reports (http://www.gulflink.osd.mil/khamisiyah_iii/khamisiyah_iii_tabg.htm)
TAB H – Changes in this Report (http://www.gulflink.osd.mil/khamisiyah_iii/khamisiyah_iii_tabh.htm)

END NOTES (http://www.gulflink.osd.mil/khamisiyah_iii/khamisiyah_iii_en.htm)

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http://www.libertyforlife.com/military-war/GWVIS_May2007.pdf

May 2007 Gulf War Veterans IS Report

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http://www.policymic.com/articles/61807/happy-airstrike-eve-everyone


Happy Airstrike Eve, Everyone



2 days ago

They don't care.

The main motive is not to save lives or destroy chemical weapons or even to prevent a precedent from being established (same as Khamisiyah wasn't primarily to prevent Saddam Hussein's forces from recovering the munitions). Our foreign policy actions start making a hell of a lot more sense when you stop looking at them through a benevolent lens and see that the underlying factors which we bomb nations are profit, the maintaining of dollar hegemony, or simply spite. I'm sure you are aware and I am just typing this for everyone to know and consider but my theory is proved when they sanctioned Iraq for all those years. Saving civilians; being the good guys; helping humanity; was simple enough to accomplish - remove the sanctions. They couldn't be bothered with that.

Whether or not a good result does come from bombing Syria, which I doubt is possible, but if it does, that will be a secondary, though welcomed [in fact paraded to justify other interventions] but not specifically intentioned result of bombing Syria.

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http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20121026065214/http://www.mod.uk/NR/rdonlyres/33518362-99D0-45DA-B410-E9E3075D25BB/0/gviu_khamisiyah_assess2005.pdf

REVIEW OF MODELLING OF THE DEMOLITIONS AT

KHAMISIYAH IN MARCH 1991 AND IMPLICATIONS
FOR UK PERSONNEL


EXECUTIVE SUMMARY


1.
The purpose of this paper is to provide the MOD’s assessment of the
2002 US Department of Defense (DoD) modelling of the events at Khamisiyah. It discusses changes to t
he modelling of the plume, since the initial US model in 1997, and the possible level of exposure, before
examining the potential implications for the health effects of UK veterans.


While the DoD 2002 paper contains no new evidence specific to UK troops, it does provide a greater understanding of the events at
Khamisiyah.

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Khamisiyah (http://www.ngwrc.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=26:khamisiyah&catid=21:gas)
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Demolition Operations at Khamisiyah, Iraq

On December 5, 2000, the Office of the Special Assistant for Gulf War Illnesses (OSAGWI) issued a revised report to its Gulf War case narrative, "U.S. Demolition Operations at Khamisiyah." The initial report in 1997 described the demolition operations at Khamisiyah, Iraq and the possible low-level exposure of more than 100,000 U.S. service members to chemical warfare agents including nerve agents' sarin and cyclosarin. Following the initial report an expert panel reviewed the modeling methodology used in the first projection and recommended improved modeling techniques for a second projection. The improved 2000 modeling methodology resulted in changes to the original findings with regard to potential hazard area locations. The revised modeling effort predicts that the possible exposure areas are generally smaller than those modeled in 1997. However, the new statistics include approximately 35,000 Gulf War veterans who were not previously believed to be in the potential exposure area.
DoD stated in its press release that:

The number of service members possibly exposed to low levels of nerve agent by the Khamisiyah demolitions has changed only slightly: 101,000 vs. 99,000. The new potential hazard area is slightly smaller than the one predicted in the 1997 report. This, combined with the improved unit location database developed over the life of the investigation, plus improved weather modeling, accounts for the difference in the number, said [OSAGWI director Bernard] Rostker. More than 66,000 soldiers who were shown to be in the potential hazard area in 1997 remain in the revised 2000 area.

DoD indicated it is notifying all affected service members, including approximately 35,000 Gulf War veterans who were not previously believed to be in the potential exposure area. OSAGWI notification letters included the following statement about potential health impacts on PGW veterans as a result of the Khamisiyah event: "...based on current medical evidence and ongoing research, there is no indication that any long-term health effects would be expected from the brief, low-level exposure to chemical agents that may have occurred near Khamisiyah."

The DAV will press the scientific/medical community to continue research to unlock the mysteries surrounding the ailments suffered by PGW veterans and to determine the health impact on veterans who were exposed to both identified chemical warfare agents and unknown environmental health hazards as a result of their military service in the Persian Gulf. We will also press Congress to enact legislation that fully addresses the needs of this veteran population.





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