Sudan repeats compensation call for 1998 factory bombing by US

AFP ^ | September 29, 2003

[Shermy]

UNITED NATIONS (AFP) - Sudan repeated its demand for compensation from the United States for the 1998 cruise missile attack on a pharmaceuticals factory in Khartoum.

The United States destroyed the Al-Shifa plant on August 20 that year in retaliation for bomb attacks blamed on Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network that hit US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, killing more than 200 people.

Then-president Bill Clinton's administration said the plant had links to bin Laden and had been making chemical weapons.

Sudan denies the allegations and says the factory produced drugs for the local market.

The US claim has also been disputed by others, including some in Washington, which did not challenge a lawsuit from the factory's owner to free up assets which had been frozen by US authorities.

"We recall our feeling of bitterness renewed by the fifth anniversary," Sudanese Foreign Minister Mustafa Ismail told the UN's annual ministers meeting at the General Assembly.

He said Washington should "rectify this serious mistake" by paying compensation.

[Shermy]

Ping.

[Vinnie]

The clintons should pay this out of their royalties and speaking fees.

[AmericaUnited]

We should freeze the Clinton's book revenues and pay them.

[ServesURight]

I remember the lack of media uproar over this incident. If this would have happened under Bush, the howls from the Rats would be deafening and would shatter glasses across the land.

[genefromjersey]

The blessings of Allah the Concupiscent be upon them, and upon the camels they rode in on !

In that part of the world,a "pharmaceutical" plant almost always has a dual function: pharmaceuticals by day-biowarfare agents by night.

It's an idea they borrowed from the Russian "Biopreparat" scheme.

[Oztrich Boy]

In that part of the world,a "pharmaceutical" plant almost always has a dual function: pharmaceuticals by day-biowarfare agents by night.

It have escaped you Clinton-lurvving mind that in that part of the world they don't work plants 24/7.

If you want a vowel, the only person killed was the nightwatchman.

[moni kerr]

So how much are they asking for?

[genefromjersey]

Oztrich, it looks as if you can't tell the difference between a figure of speech and a declaration of fact.

Please ! Go back to your football game or reality show.

By the way: I'm no Clinton lover, and will resist saying
someone related to you might have been otherwise.

[Redcoat LI]

I don't think he meant they were working four shifts,but used day and night as a metaphor for being one thing at one time,and a differant thing at another. Or not.

[breakem]

In that part of the world,a "pharmaceutical" plant almost always has a dual function: pharmaceuticals by day-biowarfare agents by night.

gfromj I think the Clintons tried to look under that rock, but the CIA or other government agancy said no, it was in fact an aspirin factory. I enjoy calling the weapon used the Monica Missile since it was the day before her testimony.