It was during this time that U.S. troops may have detonated Iraqi bunkers in Khamisiyah which may have contained chemical weapons. However, as of December 5, it appears that it is unknown as to whether the record keeping was poor or whether pages were actually removed. Mr. Bacon, indicated, as stated in the press report, that there have not been any troops who were in the area who had reported being exposed to chemicals, or complained of symptoms of exposure, at that time. At the same time, the Persian Gulf War Veteran's Illnesses Investigation Team has initiated a telephone survey asking service members who were in the area to contact the group for further information. Documents that had once appeared on the internet at the government's Gulflink site were reportedly removed due to the possibility that they had not yet been declassified.
Some documents have been replaced, others remain missing.
Various officials have been interviewed and none of them have given reporters any conclusive information one way or another about the possible exposure to chemical weapons, whether by accident from our own activities military activities, or deliberately by Hussein. Over five years later no one has been able, or willing, to say there was or was not exposure to chemical weapons in the Gulf. Again, our government leaves us dangling. While we dangle, read up at the sites below.