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I'm just a little skeptical those symptoms are very common in people who want to think that they are ill. How can you quantify any of those symptoms. Heck if I sit here and dwell on aches and pains I would soon be feeling the same way. The mind can generate feelings of pain without a physical problem. These ailments could be real, faked, or imagined. These people went thru a rather tramatic experience and have heard how bad anthrax is almost to the point where it becomes a boogieman. It would be easy to allow fear take over and "make" these folks feal bad. Could be real symptoms, fear, or illness induced by an attorney.

You could be right. I think the evidence is a little stronger than you're suggesting, but I'd agree that these are the kinds of things that could easily be imagined, especially the fatigue. ["Imagined" may be a poor choice of wording here; your description explains the potential situation well.] But they're also the kinds of things that do genuinely occur as long-term side effects of illnesses.

The joint pain and, to a lesser extent, the memory loss strike me as more significant than the fatigue. And the similarity with Gulf War syndrome is intriguing.