Sudan attack spurs suit against U.S.
Owner of pharmaceutical plant plans claim for $50 million
ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 � The Sudanese pharmaceutical plant targeted
by U.S. missiles two years ago was engaged in no illicit
activities, its owner said in announcing he will seek $50 million
in compensation from the United States.
IN ORDERING the attack against the al-Shifa plant in
August 1998, President Clinton alleged that the facility had
links to Osama bin Laden, the exiled Saudi-born millionaire
suspected in the bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and
Tanzania.
Salah Idris, the Sudanese businessman who purchased the
plant five months before it was destroyed, will file a civil
action suit in the U.S. Court of Claims in hopes of obtaining
restitution.
Idris has retained the Washington law firm of Jones, Day,
Reavis and Pogue, which said in a statement that Idris will
establish that al-Shifa was �engaged only in pharmaceutical
processing and packaging,� with no connection to international
terror.
Clinton coupled the attack on the Khartoum facility with
cruise missile strikes against alleged terror camps in
Afghanistan said to have been under bin Laden�s control.
REFUTING U.S. CLAIMS
The statement by the law firm said the U.S. government
has retreated systematically from declarations that high
officials made two years ago to justify the attack on the plant,
�except for the claim that a chemical component of VX nerve gas
known as Empta was found in a soil sample taken by a foreign
agent near the plant.�
It added that a study commissioned by Idris found no trace
of Empta in the ground soil and drainage sludge at al-Shifa but
instead found evidence of common pesticides with �chemical
similarity� to Empta.
Idris said he has always opposed terrorism as a tool of
political action, has never met with bin Laden and has not
knowingly done business with him or any of his associates.
ADMINISTRATION STANDS FIRM
In the most recent administration comment on the issue,
State Department spokesman Philip Reeker stood by the initial
justification for the bombing. He said last week that evidence
suggests bin Laden was seeking to acquire weapons of mass
destruction, including chemical weapons, for use against American
targets. He said Empta, used to make chemical weapons, was found
outside the al-Shifa facility.
�In the nearly two years since the attack, the evidence
about the purpose of this chemical plant remains persuasive,�
Reeker said.
Idris said he understands the need of the U.S. government
to defend itself against acts of terror. �But a government
becomes what it fears most when it lashes out against the
innocent and then fails to recognize its errors and make full
restitution,� he said.
� 2000 Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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