Thursday, January 17, 2008

uk offers nerve gas veterans £3m & apology

uk offers nerve gas veterans £3m & apologyfrom guardian: The Ministry of Defence is to offer compensation and an apology to the Porton Down victims of secret chemical testing, it was reported today.

It is understood £3m will be made available between the 360 veterans who claim they were tricked into becoming "human guinea pigs" for nerve gas experiments.

The ex-servicemen say they were duped into thinking the trials only involved cold remedy tests at the military research centre in Salisbury, Wiltshire.
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