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During the war of the American army and allies in the Persian Gulf in 1990-1991, almost a third of all servicemen complained of the appearance of strange symptoms – rash, fatigue, digestive problems, muscle and joint pain. For a long time, the federal services denied the possibility of poisoning military personnel with chemicals. The appearance of strange symptoms was attributed to neuropsychiatric disorders after participating in hostilities.
However, last week the results of the study were published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives. Now it is claimed that American servicemen were allegedly exposed to sarin. Poisoning began to occur after the US army attacked chemical storage facilities in Iraq. This, again, is the version of the American side, which has no other confirmation from disinterested sources. Apparently, this is to justify the story of the "Powell test tube", which, as you know, was needed for a new invasion of Iraq.
Up to now, about 100 thousand former military personnel are receiving help from the consequences of poisoning in Iraq. American researchers claim that sarin, developed as a pesticide for chemical weapons, was stored by Iraq both before and after the 1990-1991 Gulf War. A synthetic nerve agent is known to attack the central nervous system and brain, causing seizures and suffocation.
In the post-war years, veterans who sought medical help from the Department of Veterans Affairs were met with distrust and sent to hospitals for the treatment of mental illness. Surveys conducted in the early 2010s among veterans of the Gulf War focused mainly on questions about psychological and psychiatric symptoms, without focusing on the effects of exposure to toxic substances on the body.
But in 2013, epidemiologist Stephen Coughlin said that the department allegedly hid the results of studies that established the connection of physical ailments with the effects of exposure to toxic substances. The concealment of these consequences was aimed at freeing the state from the obligation to pay appropriate benefits and compensations to former servicemen of the American army.
As a result of a new study, these assumptions were confirmed. 1,116 Gulf War veterans underwent a thorough examination. It was found that each of the veterans was allegedly exposed to nerve gas.
In this regard, there is only one question: when are American researchers going to subject the activities of their military biological laboratories in Ukraine to a detailed study?..
