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Reaction to NYTIMES: Gas may have harmed troops

Submitted by ggevalt on May 17, 2007 - 09:24.

If you want to blog on the news, press the blue "b" button beside the story headline on the right sidebar and blog away. -- GG
Take a gander at this story: Gas May Have Harmed Troops, Scientists Say - More than 100,000 American troops in the Persian Gulf war of 1991 were exposed to low levels of sarin nerve gas. [NYTimes]

This is a disturbing finding, that is that 100,000 to 150,000 soldiers from the 1991 Persian Gulf war may have physical damage due to exposure to nerve gas during the war. The story explains that this gas resulted from the Army's detonation of a munitions warehouse that contained sarin nerve gas.

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