The UK Ministry of Defence has warned scientists studying health effects of the first Gulf war in 1990-1991 not to supply unpublished findings to an inquiry into Gulf war illnesses, raising concerns that key information will be omitted. The independent inquiry started hearing witnesses in London on 12 July, a process that is due to last three weeks.
In a letter to research groups, the director of the MoD’s Veterans Policy Unit, Malcolm Longwood, advised that while “it would be inappropriate for the ministry to influence” what the inquiry is told, “I do ask you to observe the confidentiality” of…
