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13 December 1998
Transcripts of the Special Oversight Board from November
19th and 20th
Both files below are in Rich Text Format (RTF) and should be readable
on any system. Click to download them.
November 19th (343Kb)
November 20th (229Kb)
GulfLink
document of the month.
4 December 1998
22nd
SUPCOM Redeployment list
This is a list of all units that redeployed from the Gulf and when
they redeployed. Many are not listed as units that were exposed from any
fallout from Khamisiyah.
Check out the "official" DOD list of
units considered exposed.
Very extensive list of US and Coalition
forces in the Gulf provided by TactW1@aol.com
The VA's
1992 proposed legislation.
These files have been removed to make room for other
new information.
If you would like a copy of them, please
send me
an email
and I will email them to you.
This was legislation that the VA proposed in 1992 because they
realized there was a problem with Gulf War Veterans. This legislation
was NOT allowed to be presented.
Note how they were proposing this due to a "negative image", also,
the "Justification" and the "Cost/Savings" sections.
It took until 103-446 was passed over 2 years later before these
problems were addressed.
Why did the Office of Management and Budget not allow
this to go forward?
The Los Alamos Letter.
This is a letter written by a LTC "Z" and originated at Los Alamos
National Laboratory. Interesting that they acknowledge there will be health
effects from contamination of DU, yet they refuse testing or treatment.
What an attitude.
The VA may provide testing for contamination of DU if you are lucky
enough and persevere in getting them to "put veterans first". Secretary
Brown even states there is already regulation which allows for service-connection.
Now all a veteran will have to do is PROVE their medical conditions are
related to DU exposure.
Thanks to the VERY hard work of James Tuite, III we are able to see
exactly which chemical facilities were targeted
by the coalition. Makes me rather happy that we were so well thought
of that our commanders were sure all the toxins released magically stopped
before reaching us, or that they are so sure it burned during the bombing.
It doesn't matter that the GulfLink documents show there were still "hazardous
chemical vapors" being released SEVERAL MONTHS AFTER they were bombed by
the coalition.
Also, be sure to check out Jim's latest
report, posted at http://www.chronicillnet.org/
complete with satellite photos of plumes that we are supposed to believe
magically stopped (or became non-toxic), before they reached thousands
of soldiers in northern Saudi Arabia.
Speaking of targeted chemical sites. Check out my GulfLink
document index. This is an index of ALL of the previous GulfLink documents
previously released on www.insigniausa.com.
Some of the more interesting documents are actually posted here. I suggest
downloading them, then printing them on transparencies. Handy for presentations,
and gets the point across to those who think that the Pentagon was forthcoming
in releasing them in the first place. They have been removed from GulfLink,
only to be re-posted in such a redacted form as to be useless.
Of course, no web site for Gulf vets is complete without the now
infamous "Wallner" memo. "not that we want
to keep anything from the vets.....we just want to have the proper spin
prepared before we get hit with all these questions that make us feel so
bad."
Can we stand another memo? Thanks to Paul Sullivan and the Gulf War
Veterans of Georgia we have a memo in which MG
Ronald Blanck
stated the exposure to chemical weapons has to be assumed. Also, he
states "Clearly, chemical warfare agents
were detected and confirmed at very low levels. " This memo
was written in 1994, and should have been enough to raise some eyebrows
then.
Another question. Can one assume the "Dr.
Mather" at the bottom who received a courtesy copy of this memo
is the same Dr. Susan Mather at the Department of Veterans Affairs in Washington,
D.C.? If so another question has come to mind. Why has it taken the VA
so long to attempt ANY testing related to low-level exposures to chemical
weapons?
For quite some time we were told there were no chemicals on the
battlefield, and there were no injuries from chemicals. This document,
which has been confirmed by the diagnosing physician, is the diagnosis
of the chemical injury received by PFC Michael
Fisher. What is more amazing is when so-called "experts" from the DOD/VA/CIA
give public statements, they still say there were NO chemical injuries.
Not only is there a diagnosis of PFC Fisher, here is another diagnosis
made by a VA doctor of Navy Reservist William Kay.
For a look at some detail of the operation, check out the list of
Operational code names assigned to certain
aspects of the war. I wonder what the code named STEEL BOX operation was
about. Removing chemical weapons from Germany? Interesting!
Read about the Blood and Tissue collection from Gulf War Veterans
that is going on at the Armed Forces Institute of
Pathology. I am sure they would notify us immediately if they found
something nasty in our blood........or whatever tissue they can get.
Yeah right.
Here is a report from the Persian Gulf Investigation Team on the
reports of Phosphine and Phosgene causing illnesses
at Fort Leavenworth's Army Knowledge Network-Combined Arms Center
History Office, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Interesting that a buidling
is considered to have a "syndrome", yet veterans illnesses are downplayed
as "we have found no evidence of a syndrome........".
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