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Shaun Rusling, Vice Chairman of the National Gulf Veterans and Families Association,
12 July 2004.
I was given routine vaccinations hepatitis B, hepatitis A, polio, yellow fever, tetanus, meningococcal C... I was
given further hepatitis B and cholera vaccinations and three other vaccinations which I was advised were
biological. It must be noted that none of the vaccinations, routine or otherwise, were recorded on my F Med 4
medical documentation despite my documents being present at the time of vaccination in the UK...
After a few days... [I was] given another vaccine in each arm and issued antimalarial tablets and nerve agent
pre-treatment tablets, commonly known as NAPS...
I understand that troops had been refusing the vaccines and not attending at designated times hence Part One
orders were written to ensure attendance. Failure to attend could lead to court martial. I was given one in the
upper right arm, one in the left...
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A few days later we were ordered to have another course of injections. There seemed to be a rush to be ready
for ground operations. These two again we are given in the upper right arm and outer right quadrant (my bum,
my Lord!) This injection gave me terrible pain and led to parasthesia and I was literally dragging my leg
around...
It must be questioned when the massive chemical weapons pits at Al Khamisiyah were blown up, not once or
twice but at least four times between 1 and 10 March 1991, could the Army MoD have protected the troops by
masking the troops up? However, the facts are that we were walking about with no protective suits or
respirators during the demolition of not just this pit but others containing weapons of mass destruction,
containing Sarin Cyclo Sarin... There were 16 associated weapons pits blown up. Khamisiyah itself was blown
up four times...
Vaccinations and medications you were given for the Gulf War were classified secret, therefore would not be
recorded...
In 1997 the MoD admitted that a facsimile was sent by the Department of Health to the MoD advising the MoD
of concerns and anxieties over giving anthrax vaccine in conjunction with the whooping cough (Pertussis). At
the time of the admission of this fact the MoD stated they did not know who had sent the fax and did not know
who received it at the MoD. This was an untruth. The fax was from Dr Jeremy Metters, Department of Health,
to the Secretary of State for Defence. [Organophosphates] had been purchased in Saudi Arabia with Arabic
instructions which led to the wrong concentrations being put down in troop areas.
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just finished and I was employed in the Gulf in my trade as a petroleum operator. This entailed cleaning
up/organising all military petroleum and lubricants for transportation back to the UK. One of the main tasks and
most unpleasant was decanting thousands of army jerricans which were from all over the theatre of operations
and placing the fuel back into large bulk fuel containers. We had no protective equipment or facemasks, only
thin fatigues and desert boots. We worked long hours in extreme temperatures for two months whilst
completing this task and I can still taste the petrol in my mouth now from when we did this task.
Dr Nigel Humphrey Graveston, Chair of the National Gulf Veterans and Families
Association, 33 Field Hospital RAMC at Al Jubail in Saudi Arabia. Consultant
anaesthetist in the army, 19 July 2004.
I had three anthrax vaccinations and with the whooping cough two of them are dated and one is not dated. There
is no record of my plague vaccination If you are going to have a whole lot of vaccines, as certain of the veterans
did, this could lead to a considerable amount of mercury being given in a short period of time to the veterans.
Mercury is a very, very toxic compound; it is the most toxic metal which is not a radionucleotide.
Then there are organophosphates in the form of chemical warfare agents: Sarin, or Cyclo-Sarin; and insecticides
in the form of sprays or flea collars; infections have been implicated; combat stress which does not explain the
non-deployed people and the people who were in more rural areas and depleted uranium...
The anthrax vaccine was devised to protect veterinarians, workers in laboratories and in the hair-and-hide
industries against cutaneous anthrax. The mode of delivery, if one were to use anthrax as a biological weapon,
would be in the form of anthrax spores and an aerosol. There is no evidence that this would protect anybody
against aerosol-delivered anthrax. The manufacturers recommended administration regime is four doses over 32
weeks. Veterans were given the anthrax vaccinations over much shorter periods of time...
Not very much was known about the anthrax and plague vaccines, and probably nothing was known about giving
so many vaccines together in such a short period of time. For medical science, this is undoubtedly virgin territory...
There is no precedent to giving so many vaccinations to so many people, all over a short period of time.
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Raymond Bristow, military warrant officer theatre technician and combat medical
technician, both Class 1, 19 July 2004.
I was given routine vaccinations for Hepatitis A, Polio, Yellow Fever, Tetanus, Meningococcal C... I was given a
further Cholera vaccine, and three other vaccines, which I was advised were biological and no other description
was given.
It must be noted that none of the vaccines, routine or secret vaccines, were recorded on my F Med 4 medical
documentation, despite my documents being present at the time, here in the UK. I was given another vaccine in
each arm and issued anti-malarial tablets and nerve agent pre-treatment tablets, or NAPs...
Whilst at Blackadder camp there was constant spraying of the tended area with liquid around the doorways and
window area and in the latrines and dining areas by civilian employees with plastic canisters. The civilians were
what I believe are called Saudi guest workers. They did not wear any protection equipment other than a rag over
their faces, and nobody thought anything about it at the time. I/we did not know that the product being used,
Diazanon was harmful to man, and a sheep-dip type pesticide, which I believe is banned in the UK...
In fact, we were briefed that the air strikes had released Sarin nerve gas into the atmosphere. However, the next
day the powers that be decided to change their minds and said the alarms were due to the incineration of
rubbish... Troops had not been going for their vaccines at their designated times because we were a hospital
there were night shifts, day shifts, and some people were asleep. Part One Orders were produced to ensure
attendance. It stated that failure to attend could lead to court martial.
Brigadier Robin Garnet, Chairman of the Medical Advisory Committee for the Royal
British Legion, 21 July 2004.
Khamisiyah and the other two where munitions were blown up that had nerve agents in them I believe that
civilians in the area could be affected as well.
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operations. In late 1989 I was also vaccinated against yellow fever... On 9 January 1991 at RAF Lyneham I was
vaccinated with anthrax (batch 01/90) and pertussis (batch CO251A) with no lingering after-effects...
On the patio area a locally employed person was often observed carrying out insect spraying duties. Obviously,
in the cool of the morning the insects could be caught resting, but encountering this person at his work caused
personnel to protect their food and themselves as best as possible from the fallout of the spraying which smelt
rather like creosote. The substance also left the greasy coloured appearance of petrol on the surface of the
swimming pool. The pool was used a great deal for recreation and exercise.
After cease flying on 31 January 1991 the crew were required to report to the field medical unit in the basement
of King Khalid Airport for further vaccinations. I was administered with anthrax (batch 343/E) and pertussis
(batch E1138)...
After this experience as a crew we elected not to have the final batch of vaccinations. Shortly after hostilities
started we were ordered to start taking NAPs tablets... Our initial flight to Kuwait was at approximately 5,000
feet but because of the oil smoke we had to descend below this to approximately 1,000 feet. Our initial descent
took us through the smoke and because of the acrid smell we encountered the aircraft air conditioning was shut
down and auxiliary ventilation had to be selected to purge the fuselage interior. On landing and before take-off I
had to remove from the windscreens a film of dark, partially burnt oil.
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Another point: I watched the Trevor Macdonald Tonight programme last year which discussed the vials of
anthrax washed up on a beach in Dorset. They were tested in a lab and found to contain the illegal adjuvant
squalene. The MoD admitted they had fallen off the back of a Royal Navy ship, as they were MoD vials.
However, on this programme, Dr Lewis Moonie sat there and pompously refused to accept the findings of what
he called chemists, even though the vials were tested in a genuine laboratory by qualified laboratory
technicians.
Elizabeth Sigmund, since 1967 and for some years secretary of the Working Party on
Chemical and Biological Weapons, 28 July 2004.
Certainly there must have been mental stress as the senior Army officers that you have seen described
because being afraid that you are going to be attacked by these terrible weapons must have been very
stressful. [However,] it stretches ones understanding of these things to believe that was the only issue. I am
absolutely convinced myself that a combination of all these chemicals has produced a series of severe illnesses
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James Tuite III, consultant, former Special Assistant to the Chairman of the US Senate
Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs for National Security and Dualuse
Export Policies, 2 August 2004.
The Czech Ministry of Defence confirmed the detection of chemical agents near the Iraqi border. We... believe
that this was as a result of the bombing and fallout from the instruction of the Iraqi chemical weapons research
production storage facilities
We established in this investigation that chemical agent detectors used by US forces during the Gulf War were
not sufficiently sensitive to detect sustained low levels of chemical agent and to monitor personnel for
contamination. Yet, these alarms continued to sound during the air war raids on the Iraqi chemical warfare
research, storage and production infrastructure... The levels of agent were sufficiently high to set off the
detectors even though they were that insensitive to occupational and local exposure...
Finally, we uncovered conclusive evidence that the United States shipped biological materials to Iraq which
contributed to the Iraqi biological warfare programme... Despite the fact that the Czech, the French and some
United States commanders were confirming that [the alarms] were sounding because of trace amounts of nerve
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agents in the air from the coalition bombing of Iraqi chemical facilities, storage depots and bunkers, the United
States troops were repeatedly told that there was no danger. Some reported to the Committee that in some
cases they were told to turn the alarms off because they were sounding so often during the air war.
Many of these veterans were also subjected to a variety of preventive medicine measures, including the
timecompressed administration of multiple vaccines, individual vaccines of concern and nerve agent
pre-treatment pills, all of which may play a role in the illnesses of particular individuals... I have seen some
British veterans who received as many as 22 immunisations over an 18 day period and then they were not
deployed...
Pyridostigmine bromide at the NAP dose is supposed to do this in a reversible way so that it binds up these
enzymes or receptors and they are not available to the nerve agent. After the threat passes, they become
available again so that the person can use them. After people had the NAPS tablets in the studies that were
done, they also received diazepam. They received antidotes to the pills themselves and that did not occur
during the war. You have this potential for illnesses being directly related to the pills.
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A. Yes.
DR JONES: Which is highly undesirable?
A. Right.
Dr Meryl Nass, Mount Desert Island Hospital, Maine, USA, 1 September 2004.
When you actually get down to the nitty-gritty and start looking at the FDA inspection reports of the plant, then you
throw up your hands and you are quite concerned because you see that none of the procedures that should have
been followed in a vaccine manufacturing organisation were being followed, not only for anthrax vaccine but there
were enormous numbers of quality control failures in the United States in all the products that were made at that
factory. We thought we were the only ones with that problem but you apparently had some similar problems here
in the UK because your manufacturing facility also had to be shut down and revamped
[I] start[ed] seeing that there had been a whole series of these various adjuvant boosters that had been used which
took a vaccine that was of very low efficacy and turned it into a high efficacy vaccine and none of these immune
boosters are licensed in the United States and I do not believe that they are licensed in the UK either. So, they
were used in animal experiments and they subsequently have not been licensed.
refusing to kill
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