These soldiers have been having a hard time getting authorities in both the US and UK to accept that their bad health had anything to do with the Gulf War.

A Research Advisory Committee on Gulf Veteran's Illnesses, USA, has confirmed that Gulf War Syndrome does exist. They also add that it could possibly be due to exposure to sarin gas from an Iraqi weapons depot. Another possibility, they say, could be the result of troops being given a drug to protects them from nerve gas.

Charles Plumridge, National Gulf War Veterans and Families Association, UK, said “Most Gulf veterans both in the States and in Britain have been claiming this for many years but our claims seem to have fallen on deaf ears. We're just hoping that this report will open people's ears and they will listen to us in times to come."