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U.S.: 100,000 Troops Exposed to Chemicals During Gulf War

HeadlineJun 11, 2004

A new report from the Congressional General Accounting Office is estimating that 100,000 troops — mostly American — may have been exposed to chemical warfare agents during the 1990 Gulf War when troops destroyed stockpiles of chemical agents in southern Iraq.

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