[PEN-L:9609] Conquest of Sudanese Aspirin Industry

["Max B. Sawicky" <sawicky@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Good article this a.m. in the Post about the
Sudanest factory bombing.  The owner, a crony
of the Saudi royal family, is suing the U.S.
and apparently winning.  Two choice excerpts:


" . . . Over at the White House, Clinton's national security adviser, Samuel
R. "Sandy" Berger, was referring to the "so-called pharmaceutical factory in
Khartoum, which we know with great certainty produces essentially the
penultimate chemical to manufacture VX nerve gas."

Later in the article:

"The suit was pending when PBS's "Frontline" aired a documentary in April
about the August missile strikes. Interviewed on camera, national security
adviser Berger backed off substantially from earlier claims that the plant
was "producing" a precursor to VX nerve gas.

"I don't think that--I think that is not necessarily the case," Berger told
"Frontline." "I think it is certainly true that the plant was associated
with chemical weapons."

Here's the rest of the article:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-07/25/033l-072599-idx.html

mbs