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DOCTORS TREATING THE US Embassy victims of mysterious, invisible attacks in Cuba have discovered brain abnormalities as they search for clues to explain the hearing, vision, balance and memory damage.
It’s the most specific finding to date about physical damage, showing that whatever it was that harmed the Americans, it led to perceptible changes in their brains.
The finding is also one of several factors fueling growing scepticism that some kind of sonic weapon was involved.
Medical testing has revealed the embassy workers developed changes to the white matter tracts that let different parts of the brain communicate, several US officials said, describing a growing consensus held by university and government physicians researching the attacks. White matter acts like information highways between brain cells.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says the United States is convinced that the incidents harming the health of US Embassy workers in Cuba were “targeted attacks.”
Tillerson is pushing back on Cuba’s complaints that the US hasn’t shared enough information to let Cuban authorities investigate. He says the US has shared some information but that he’s put two restrictions in place.
Tillerson says he won’t share information that violates individual’s’ privacy or reveals their medical conditions. And he says he won’t release information that helps the perpetrator determine how effective the attacks were.
He added that he understands the Cubans don’t like the actions the US has taken in response. But he says the United States doesn’t like having its diplomats come under attack.
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This is all a bit mad isn’t it.
@Declan Hegarty: if America has the best interests of their staff at heart they’ll allow them to be treated in Cuban hospitals
@Skinnerbot: Are you for real?
@Stephen Foster: sure is Ted!!
Brain Abnormalities in Americans? Is this news?
@Radioska: Excellent. …….took the words out of my mouth.
There’ll be a whole lot more embassy attack’s after today and that’s for sure
Seems like a weapon that was a little too sophisticated for the Cubans to have pulled off. I wonder if the US was testing an advanced denial of personnel weapon on their compound.
Sounds like a campaign by the brain challenged trump administration to undo the Obama initiative of nurturing closer ties with Cuba.
That should read “a concocted campaign”… note the refusal to release detail to the Cuban authorities.
@winston smith: nah that was just getting really embarrassing, the failure Obama didn’t spend much time on this and there’s nothing to suggest he did.
Sounds more like something the Americans would do to its own people, otherwise they are suggesting that the Cubans are using unknown technology (some kind of sonic weapon) to harm it’s citizens.
@Tom Phelan: The embassy staff are not Cuban citizens.
@Neal Ireland Hello.: Americans work in American embassy? Seriously?
This is old school, the Irish Govt perfected this device at least 50 yrs ago!
Isn’t that why we keep re electing tweedle dee and tweedle dum parties?
How else was Donald going to get elected?
The price for moving his Golf course to Clare was the blue prints!
@Jarlath Murphy: what golf course did he move to clare?
@Gareth Fitzpatrick: See it works!
The Americans would never do this to another countries people
Was Arlene Fister over there on her holliers?
American politicians are slowly but surely descending into madness, paranoia, have you ever heard anything as ridiculous as this? Well since maybe Colin Powell presented the mobile scud launchers hidden in HGV’s that could hit – well anywhere really! to the UN security council. But you have to ask is Tillerson sane? is Trump, the lights are on in Washington but no one is home.
After drinking bootleg vodka? I bet?
Was Donald Trump present?
@Donal Desmond: Screaming into their ears?
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