Sentences with phrase «by gulf war»

«Based on a study of hens or rats, it would be impossible to say whether this combination of chemicals helps explain the causes of undiagnosed illnesses reported by some Gulf War veterans,» the Department of Defense says in a statement.

IN 1991 Doug Rokke went to the Middle East as a US army health physicist to clean up uranium left by the Gulf War.

Simultaneously the US is using the situation created by the Gulf War in 1990 to legitimise their military control over the biggest oil region in the world.

The same could be said of the 1991 Canberra assembly which was overshadowed by the Gulf War.

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GC: The Mexican government had already declared war on drugs and organized crime by the time the war between the Gulf Cartel and Zetas began, and the cartel war attracted the Mexican government.

Euronews was created in the wake of the 1990 Gulf War as a «European CNN» and used to be owned by a consortium of state - owned European channels before Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris took a 53 percent stake in the broadcaster.

The Veterans Transition Franchise Initiative (VetFran Program) was established by Don Dwyer, Sr. — founder of Dwyer Group — soon after the Gulf War ended in 1991.

The main reason for the Niebuhr revival, as demonstrated by Charles Lemert's new book, Why Niebuhr Matters, is that liberals started rereading The Irony of American History during the Gulf Wars.

In a world as dangerous as ours, a judicious use of military power is probably unavoidable, I did not oppose the war in the Persian Gulf: annexation by force must be reversed.

The tradition has been appealed to by journalists and politicians, as if it were common knowledge, as a basis for making (or denying) the claim that the war in the Persian Gulf should go on.

The gulf war, both in the ways it is like all wars and in the ways it is unique, makes the testing both concrete and urgent, while also heightening the chances that the «facts» available when this text is drafted will have been changed by the time it reaches readers.

One can draw on the result of the careful work that has been done by religious bodies, educational institutions, and local communities regarding better understanding between the Islamic faith and societies since the Gulf War in 1991.

Antagonism against the USA is further perpetrated by the leadership of the USA in Gulf War, military involvement in Somalia [both Muslim nations], and, as mentioned above, the continued economic blockade against Iraq and support and supply of weapons to the Israeli army (which has been used predominantly against the «intifada» [uprising] of the Palestinian youth beginning in 1987).

«As it turns out, GE designed, manufactured or supplied parts or maintenance for nearly every important weapons system employed by the USA during the Gulf War, including the much - praised Patriot and Tomahawk Cruise missiles, the Stealth bomber, the B - 52 bomber, the AWACS plane, the Apache and Cobra helicopters and the NAVSTAR spy satellite system.

It led to the United States» acquiring and destroying at least 400 Borak rockets, one of the internationally condemned chemical weapons that Saddam Hussein's Baathist government manufactured in the 1980s but that were not accounted for by United Nations inspections mandated after the 1991 Persian Gulf war.

Reflections on the Morality of the Persian Gulf War edited by David E. DeCosse Doubleday, 132 pages, $ 15 The views of Stanley Hauerwas and George Weigel on the question posed by the title are familiar to readers of this journal.

The breakdown of the socialist states as well has been accompanied by the process of their subversion by the western media; and the Gulf War has given us an example in which even war and peace have been effected through the media by the Western poweWar has given us an example in which even war and peace have been effected through the media by the Western powewar and peace have been effected through the media by the Western powers.

«Cluster munitions were used by the Soviets in Afghanistan, by the British in the Falklands, by the Coalition in the Gulf War, and by the warring factions in Yugoslavia.

The sometimes mischievous French philosopher, Jean Baudrillard earned himself a bit of notoriety in the wake of Operation Desert Storm by declaring that the the Gulf War did not take place.

Even under a right - wing government, headed by the seemingly hawkish Yitzhak Shamir, Israel enjoyed considerable international backing during the First Gulf War in 1991 as it was attacked with Scud missiles by Iraq.

He pointed out that Kuwait had contributed to the cost of the first Gulf War after it was invaded by Saddam Hussein's Iraq.

Ignoring covert operations (as requested), an argument can be made for the Vietnam War, as the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution authorized the President to assist «any member or protocol state of the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty», which was then used by Johnson to say «hey look, we need to defend South Vietnam now!»

Erie County Legislator Kevin Hardwick was joined by County Executive Mark Poloncarz, representatives from the Military Order of the Purple Heart, Chapter # 187 — Commander Ken Speaker, Chairman Bob Segool and Senior Vice Commander Russell Ward, members of the Erie County Legislature, Assemblyman Robin Schimminger, City of Tonawanda Mayor and Air Force veteran Rick Davis, Vietnam veteran and Purple Heart recipient Ronald Pilozzi, and Rev. Andrew Abraham, who served in the Persian Gulf War, to unveil the sign and honor Purple Heart recipients.

The finding may help explain how acute stress could lead to chronic depression, irritability, memory loss, and other symptoms reported by veterans of the Persian Gulf War.

An American soldier watches oil wells sabotaged by departing Iraqi forces burn in Kuwait at the close of the Persian Gulf War.

Five Middle Eastern countries will soon get unprecedented payments to conduct studies of the environmental damage caused by the 1990 - 91 Persian Gulf War, when Iraqi troops set fire to hundreds of Kuwaiti oil wells, shrouding the region in smoke for months.

So be it, but I am being told by some of the sufferers of the so - called Gulf War syndrome — an unexplained chronic illness which affected some 500 British troops who fought in the Gulf — that the protective goggles they wore were not up to the job.

This puts the BP gusher on par with the 1979 IXTOC 1 blowout, also in the Gulf of Mexico, which created a spill dwarfed only by the destruction of Kuwaiti rigs during the Persian Gulf War.

Willard Wattenburg, an electrical engineer and nuclear physicist from Greenville, California, made a name for himself by directing the capping of the more than 500 hundred burning oil wells in Kuwait after the Gulf War in 1991.

These findings resemble those reported for Gulf War veterans, suggesting that the cognitive problems suffered by veterans may be similar, even if their war experiences are nWar veterans, suggesting that the cognitive problems suffered by veterans may be similar, even if their war experiences are nwar experiences are not.

A report published earlier this year by the US Institute of Medicine concluded that there was no firm evidence that Gulf War veterans were suffering more of these symptoms than the population at large, and if they were, whether there was a single cause.

THE mysterious illness known as Gulf War syndrome may have been caused by the combined effect of a pill given to protect against nerve gas and an insect repellent, according to preliminary results from American research.

After the 1991 Gulf War, a Tel Aviv psychologist found that Israelis in cities attacked by SCUD missiles were more superstitious than residents of SCUD - free cities.

Gulf War syndrome (GWS) is the name given to a variety of psychological and physical symptoms, including increases in the rate of immune system disorders and birth defects, reported by veterans of the Gulf War.

Progress has been made toward understanding the physiological mechanisms that underlie Gulf War illness and identifying possible treatments, according to a report released Monday by a Congressionally mandated panel of scientific experts and veterans.

While the RAC panel applauded an increase in the number of treatment studies funded by the Department of Defense's Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program, it expressed grave concerns about a lack of research on other health problems and mortality among Gulf War veterans.

A panel of outside experts chosen by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has concluded that there is a «probable link» between neurotoxins such as sarin gas and the mysterious ailments that struck veterans of the 1990 — 91 Gulf War.

This conclusion — in a draft report obtained by Science and scheduled for release later this month — is at odds with other analyses of Gulf War illness, including an August report from the Institute of Medicine (IOM).

In 2008, a Congressionally mandated panel directed by White — the Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans» Illnesses — issued a landmark report concluding that Gulf War Illness was a «real» disorder, distinct from stress - related syndromes, and urging a robust research effort into its causes and potential cures.

This process, invented by the Navy, was used to search for airborne particles from chemical weapons during the Gulf War.

White and colleagues have been studying the health of troops deployed in the 1991 Gulf War for more than 20 years to determine why so many of them suffer from a multi-system disorder characterized by fatigue, joint and muscle pain, headaches, concentration and memory problems, gastrointestinal distress, and skin rashes.

3/10/2008 Health Problems in Persian Gulf War Veterans Higher Due to Chemical Exposure UCSD researchers warn of potential risk to civilians exposed to pesticides A study by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine shows there is increasing evidence that high rates of illness in Persian Gulf War Veteran... More...

John Eldridge said: «Botulism toxin was considered by coalition forces to be a viable threat during the Gulf War.

by Walter Chaw I went to high school with a guy who fought in the first Gulf War.

It's not hard to see Martin as a stand - in for America's baby boomers, still haunted by a past war (read «Vietnam») and trying to exorcise the ghosts through more bloodletting (read «the Persian Gulf»).

The worship of money and the market, accompanied by the notion that «force works» (in the blunt words of the Wall Street Journal following the Persian Gulf War in 1991), exercised an especially unhealthy influence in these years.

After some of the students shared their quickwrites, Daryl led the class in a prereading discussion of what the author meant by a «murky ending» to the Persian Gulf War.

First I admit it has been a little while since I have been to anyplace other than a «used car lot» to buy and or look for my next vehicle... I will ne... ver go to another, my wife and I were treated like we had already been life long customers by all the staff... From Maher Belkaid our sales man to Joe Perry the sales manager to Steve the finance guy... All very kind and helpful as well so respectful to me (a Gulf War Veteren) and my wife... Overall a fun smooth process... Love my (our) new Tacoma...

ver go to another, my wife and I were treated like we had already been life long customers by all the staff... From Maher Belkaid our sales man to Joe Perry the sales manager to Steve the finance guy... All very kind and helpful as well so respectful to me (a Gulf War Veteren) and my wife... Overall a fun smooth process... Love my (our) new Tacoma...

While it comes with nicer upholstery and a few more creature comforts than the military Humvee, it is otherwise the same transport made famous throughout the world by TV news coverage of the Gulf War.