Re: French to Check Liaison Officers for

[Guest guest]

A good item to remember about the French is that they were the troops who,

along with some of the U.S. troops, went into As Salman, also known as

Objective White, and found a few clinics stockpiling vaccines, most noteable

among these were the Bot-Tox and Anthrax vaccines. The source who went

into the area several times with the French saw thousands of vials, marked

with labels from several of the coalition nations. Since we know the U.S.

sold Anthrax to Iraq in the 1980's, wouldn't they also have sent Anthrax

vaccine along, just to make sure the Iraqis did not end up on the news

showing how their lab techs died after handling the Anthrax we sold to them,

and thus letting the proverbial cat out of the bag ? I have the original

documents showing what was found, as well as having talked to many of the

French, U.S. troops and civilians who were in these areas, and they remember

the piles of vaccines there.....might be a worthy question to pose to

Michigan's vaccine makers........did they sell any vaccine to Iraq before

the war ? The answers will be worth the wait.....

Jim Brown

Dir., GulfWatch, I.N.S.

(704)868-2907

gulfwatch@...

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French to Check Liaison Officers for

Thursday September 14 11:51 AM ET

French to Check Liaison Officers for

Gulf Syndrome

PARIS (Reuters) - France, which suspects vaccines given

to U.S. and British soldiers were responsible for so-called

Gulf War Syndrome, is to check the health records of

Frenchmen who served as liaison personnel with allied

forces in the conflict.

``We're pretty well convinced that certain Frenchmen were

vaccinated together with the (allied) troops they were

stationed with,'' defense ministry spokesman Jean-Francois

Bureau told reporters.

Defense Minister Alain announced on Wednesday

the creation of an independent commission into the health

of the French military who served in the Gulf War.

The decision came after about 80 veterans said they

suffered from mysterious illnesses ranging from flu to

chronic fatigue and asthma -- just like U.S. and British

veterans complaining about ``Gulf War syndrome.''

France will also ask Washington whether American troops

who served under French command, receiving U.S.

vaccines, had medical records any different from other

U.S. troops.

A U.S. artillery brigade of about 3,000 men was attached

to the French Daguet light armored division in the 1991

conflict.

Armed forces medical corps spokesman Colonel Michel

Estripeau, himself a doctor, said France's belief that allied

troops were victims of their own protective measures

were based on a long series of meetings with U.S. medical

experts.

``About 100,000 of the 600,000 Americans who served in

the Gulf complain of ailments tentatively been lumped

under the Gulf War syndrome heading.

``No one has yet come to definitive conclusions but we

note that of 25,000 Frenchmen who served in the Gulf,

only 180 have ailments whose origin could be in question.

The only really major difference between the two groups

is vaccinations,'' he said.

Estripeau said U.S. troops received massive ``cocktails''

of drugs for long periods as preventive treatment against

possible chemical or biological attacks, while the French

received limited treatments only when they might be in

danger.

Defense Minister said on Wednesday that,

contrary to the U.S., the French did not make their soldiers

take regular doses of pyridostigmine bromide -- a drug

used to protect against nerve agents Iraq is known to

possess.

[Guest guest]

The French were also the ones who reported to my unit that they had detected

gas in the air while we were still in Saudi Arabia.

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> Thursday September 14 11:51 AM ET

> French to Check Liaison Officers for

> Gulf Syndrome

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> PARIS (Reuters) - France, which suspects vaccines given

> to U.S. and British soldiers were responsible for so-called

> Gulf War Syndrome, is to check the health records of

> Frenchmen who served as liaison personnel with allied

> forces in the conflict.

>

> ``We're pretty well convinced that certain Frenchmen were

> vaccinated together with the (allied) troops they were

> stationed with,'' defense ministry spokesman Jean-Francois

> Bureau told reporters.

>

> Defense Minister Alain announced on Wednesday

> the creation of an independent commission into the health

> of the French military who served in the Gulf War.

>

> The decision came after about 80 veterans said they

> suffered from mysterious illnesses ranging from flu to

> chronic fatigue and asthma -- just like U.S. and British

> veterans complaining about ``Gulf War syndrome.''

>

> France will also ask Washington whether American troops

> who served under French command, receiving U.S.

> vaccines, had medical records any different from other

> U.S. troops.

>

> A U.S. artillery brigade of about 3,000 men was attached

> to the French Daguet light armored division in the 1991

> conflict.

>

> Armed forces medical corps spokesman Colonel Michel

> Estripeau, himself a doctor, said France's belief that allied

> troops were victims of their own protective measures

> were based on a long series of meetings with U.S. medical

> experts.

>

> ``About 100,000 of the 600,000 Americans who served in

> the Gulf complain of ailments tentatively been lumped

> under the Gulf War syndrome heading.

>

> ``No one has yet come to definitive conclusions but we

> note that of 25,000 Frenchmen who served in the Gulf,

> only 180 have ailments whose origin could be in question.

> The only really major difference between the two groups

> is vaccinations,'' he said.

>

> Estripeau said U.S. troops received massive ``cocktails''

> of drugs for long periods as preventive treatment against

> possible chemical or biological attacks, while the French

> received limited treatments only when they might be in

> danger.

>

> Defense Minister said on Wednesday that,

> contrary to the U.S., the French did not make their soldiers

> take regular doses of pyridostigmine bromide -- a drug

> used to protect against nerve agents Iraq is known to

> possess.

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