Wednesday, December 2, 1998
The Guardian (UK)

Two Gulf War Veterans' homes were raided yesterday by Ministry of Defence police searching for leaked documents alleged to have shown they had tested the soldiers for depleted uranium, it was claimed.

The National Gulf War Veterans and Families Association said Ray Bristow's home in Hull and Andy Honer's home in Essex were raided in an attempt to confiscate documents apparently showing the MoD is investigating depleted uranium in British Gulf War veterans.

Mr Bristow, 40, is currently in Baghdad attending a conference on depleted uranium with two American specialists on radiation. He is trying to find out why he and his colleages are ill. To date, 258 Gulf War veterans have died since the war and 3,000 are ill.