1.   Troops were exposed to low levels of nerve gas during the conflict.

2.   American troops were exposed to the same dust when they moved forward after the battles and helped to destroy the contaminated wreckage of the Iraqi armored units.

3.   After Vietnam, the military tried to avoid exposing troops to danger under any circumstances.

4.   All this is valuable if troops are exposed to an unknown bioweapon.

5.   It is the only instance in which the Pentagon has conceded the strong possibility that U.S. troops were exposed to chemical weapons during or after the war.

6.   It may now be possible to arrest Karadzic and Mladic without provoking a revival of ethnic conflict or exposing NATO troops to retaliatory attacks.

7.   Nor, Schwarzkopf said, did he recall any confirmed reports during the war that American troops had been exposed to Iraqi chemical or biological weapons.

8.   Secretary of Defense William Perry said last week there is no evidence U.S. Gulf War troops were exposed to Iraqi biological weapons.

9.   The chronology does not clarify whether troops were actually exposed to chemical weapons at Kamisiyah, nor does it answer many questions about the actual demolition.

10.   The department is financing several investigations into gulf war syndrome, including one into the effects of drugs and chemicals to which troops were exposed during the war.