Biological Warfare Iraq

U.S. Army scientists will help study an Irvine biochemist's research that suggests a link between a biological warfare agent and Gulf War syndrome, a spokesman for Walter Reed Army Medical Center near Washington, D.C., said Thursday. The research by Garth Nicolson, director of the nonprofit Institute for Molecular Medicine in Irvine, reportedly identifies a genetically altered bacterium in the blood of dozens of sick Gulf War veterans.

U.S. Army scientists will help study an Irvine biochemist's research that suggests a link between a biological warfare agent and Gulf War syndrome, a spokesman for Walter Reed Army Medical Center near Washington, D.C., said Thursday. The research by Garth Nicolson, director of the nonprofit Institute for Molecular Medicine in Irvine, reportedly identifies a genetically altered bacterium in the blood of dozens of sick Gulf War veterans.

How many more times will the United Nations Security Council, with American concurrence, sternly admonish Iraq that it must live up to its often given and just as often broken promises to cooperate fully with U.N. inspectors as they try to find the weapons of mass destruction Saddam Hussein continues to hide?

An Iraqi regime that has spent the better part of five years hiding the full extent of its unconventional weapons programs from U.N. inspectors now professes to have adopted a come-clean approach and swears it is telling all. Fully truthful or not--and with Saddam Hussein's government it's always safer to assume deception--the revelations from Baghdad are chilling. Iraq now admits to having made what one U.N.

In a highly critical new report for the Security Council, United Nations arms inspectors will charge Iraq later this week with a series of major violations and obstructions that are almost certain to force the United States to demand new sanctions against Baghdad, U.N. diplomats and U.S. officials said Monday. "The report has lots of damning facts," a senior U.N. diplomat said Monday.

The Pentagon has lost track of up to 250,000 defective chemical warfare suits, a congressional audit found Tuesday, prompting concerns among lawmakers that the military was playing "Russian roulette" with the lives of American soldiers who face the prospect of chemical or biological warfare in Iraq.