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Article: Vet believes he was exposed to depleted uranium.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
- Article date:
- January 18, 1998
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BELLEVILLE, Ill. _ Seven years ago, U.S. troops nervously waiting for the order to take on Saddam Hussein's army frequently joked that the allies should just ``nuke 'em'' and get it over with.
They didn't have a clue that thousands soon would get ``nuked'' by their own weapons.
Spc. John Moore of Fairview Heights, Ill., didn't when he watched the engineers in his Army battalion finish blowing up Iraqi vehicles that had been disabled by American M1A1 Abrams tanks and A-10 ``Warthog'' attack planes.
Earlier this month, the Pentagon admitted for the first time that the failure to warn troops in the Persian Gulf War about the dangers of ...