Chapter 3, Part 5

Conclusions

The following facts provide significant evidence that coalition forces were exposed to mixed chemical agents as a result of coalition bombings of Iraqi nuclear, chemical, and biological facilities and that the fallout from these bombings may be contributing to the health problems currently being suffered by Gulf War veterans.

Iraqi nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons plants and storage sites were priority targets for U.S. and Coalition forces and were repeatedly bombed.
Chemical alarms began sounding and the servicemen were put on chemical alert simultaneous with the beginning of the air war.
The nature of diesel, oil, etc., did not alter during the air war, suddenly causing the alarms to sound. These substances were present before the initiation of the air war, and did not set off the chemical alarms. (The automatic alarms have no sensitivity control.)
These chemical alarms are battlefield instruments. Battlefields are full of fumes, propellants, explosives, and so forth. It is difficult to believe that they would have been procurred if they were ineffective in this environment.
U.S. military personnel, and the Czech and French governments have confirmed that the chemical alarms were sounding as the result of nerve agent detection.
The combination of prevailing wind directions, the open terrain, the lack of structural impediments, and other factors listed above, indicate that chemical and possibly nuclear and biological agents from allied bombings became airborne and were being blown and carried across coalition forces emplacements along the Saudi-Iraqi and Saudi-Kuwaiti border.
Chemical nerve agents, such as Sarin and others, are known to have a cumulative effect, i.e., they have a slow rate of detoxification. Little is known about the long-term effects of continuous low levels of exposure. Many of the veterans claiming to be suffering from Gulf War Syndrome are exhibiting symptoms of neurophysical disorders.

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