Security Run by Terrorist Suspectı London Times, 7-30-00 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]" Nick Fielding A SUDANESE businessman who has been linked by the American CIA to the world's most wanted terrorist is the leading shareholder in a company that provides security systems to the Houses of Parliament. Salah Idris, 48, whose pharmaceutical factory in Sudan was flattened by American cruise missiles after it was linked to Osama Bin Laden, the Saudi terrorist, owns 25% of IES, a company specialising in high-technology surveillance and security management. The Kent-based firm not only provides advanced digital video cameras to monitor public areas at Westminster but has also installed surveillance equipment at the Royal Courts of Justice in London. Its digital playback consoles are used by New Scotland Yard. The firm also provides security systems for blue-chip companies including British Airways, Texaco and Dixons. Idris has strongly denied any links with Bin Laden, suspected of organising the bombing of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, in which more than 200 people were killed. Idris, a multimillionaire, bought his shares in IES from a man who was at the centre of the "arms-to-Iraq" affair. Last week Idris launched a $50m (£31m) lawsuit in London against the American government over the 1998 attack on his pharmaceutical plant in Khartoum just after he had bought it for £11m. The Americans said it was producing chemicals for use in Iraq's chemical warfare programme - an allegation strongly denied by Idris. Last week a spokesman for the CIA declined to comment about Idris because of the lawsuit, but said: "We have maintained and continue to maintain that the plant was linked to Bin Laden."
