Meanwhile CNN is carrying pictures not only of the remains of this establishment that was supplying 50% of all Sudan's medical needs, but the remains of a sweet factory a significant distance away. Large quantities of baking powder have been scattered.
The Sudan regime, despite all its sins in the south, appears to be keeping very clear headed about the evidence and the next steps. CNN carries information that not only were there local investors but Saudi investors in this pharmaceutical factory. This leads direct into class contradictions in Saudi Arabia, between the new bourgeoisie and the royalty. Bin Laden symbolises the ambiguous role of the small Saudi bourgeois class. US action makes the Saudi Royal family increasingly unstable.
The Sudanese are of course not all socialists or proletarians, but it is a progressive and reasonable demand that they should be compensated, as well, they add, as those who have lost their jobs. They are pursuing international legal redress especially because no warning was given.
If the US justice system can grind so small as to examine the truthfulness of presidential statements about what he does with his semen, will it support honest answers to these questions?
Chris Burford