UK Gulf War Illness Inquiry Opens

The first public enquiry into Gulf War syndrome opened yesterday, 14 years after the conflict and seven years after the original demand for an inquest into illness among veterans of the war.

But the Ministry of Defence is still refusing to agree to co-operate with the inquiry. It has been hoped it would provide documents and that ministers would say why 5,000 troops who served in the war had become ill.

Charles Plumridge, of the National Gulf Veterans and Families Association, said: "We simply ask the MoD to answer pertinent questions that will draw this inquiry to a satisfactory conclusion."
The Daily Telegraph, 7th July 2004