US admits Sudan bombing mistake

Chris Burford cburford at gn.apc.org
Mon May 3 23:45:07 PDT 1999


Hurrah!

Chris Burford

London

At 21:42 03/05/99 -0400, you wrote:
>The Independent
>May 4, 1999
>
>US admits Sudan bombing mistake
>
>By Andrew Marshall in Washington
>
>In an admission that last year's missile attack on a factory in Sudan
>was a mistake, the US has cleared the man who owned the plant of any
>links to terrorism.
>
>The embarrassing reversal means that the US has virtually no evidence to
>support its claim that the missile attack was a strike against
>terrorism. Most of those who have investigated the case have concluded
>that the US acted on faulty intelligence and that key procedures were
>overriden by officials in the White House. The affair is already the
>subject of congressional inquiries and may result in the departure of
>some senior White House officials.



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