From:
http://www.independent.co.uk/
US sued over missile strike on Sudan
By Andrew Marshall in Washington
28 July 2000
The United States government is to be sued over its missile
attack on a Sudanese pharmaceutical factory in 1998 in a lawsuit
that will revive an embarrassment for America and for President
Bill Clinton.
On 20 August 1998, the US launched the attack in retaliation for
the bombing of its embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, which
America blamed on the Islamist leader Osama bin Laden.
The attack destroyed the al-Shifa Pharmaceutical Factory in
Khartoum. US officials said the facility was used to produce
chemicals for the deadly nerve agent VX.But the factory was owned
by Salah Idris, a Sudanese businessman. He was labelled a
terrorist by the US, which froze his bank account. He sued and
the US unfroze the account, while not admitting any mistake.
America did, however, admit that its intelligence on the plant
had been wrong, and that it did not know who owned it.
Now Mr Idris wants compensation. He had been debating the merits
of a suit for a year, not just because he wants to be repaid for
the destruction of the facility but because he wants to clear his
name.
Mr Idris appeared in London yesterday to announce the law suit.
That is, in itself, significant: though America continues to
maintain that he is linked to terrorism, Britain apparently does
not believe this. Publicly, British officials continue to back
theUS strikes; in private, they believe the attack on Sudan was
mistaken.
The case may provide damaging details of the errors the US made
and the attempts to hide them afterwards. The New York Times
reported last year: "Some senior officials moved to suppress
internal dissent. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright ...
encouraged State Department analysts to kill a report being
drafted that said the bombing was not justified."
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