From: "Max B. Sawicky" <sawicky at bellatlantic.net> Date: Sun, 25 Jul 1999 11:55:58 -0700
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
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