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How do most people in the Middle-East and Northern Africa feel about
this:
U.S.
wipes out Sudan's pharmaceuticals production in mistaken 1998 attack.
"In 1998, when President Clinton
launched cruise missiles at the harmless al-Shifa medicine factory in
Sudan, claiming it had been making VX nerve gas for bin Laden, intelligence
sources were emphatic that they had got the right target. Piece by piece
the U.S. case unraveled, as it emerged that bin Laden had never owned
the factory, while it had been manufacturing two thirds of Sudan's pharmaceuticals."
[The Guardian (UK) 9-23-2001,
"Race
to find the final proof."]
"This single atrocity destroyed
half the pharmaceutical supplies of a poor African country and the facilities
for replenishing them, with an enormous human toll .... [The] actual toll
in the Sudan case can only be surmised, because the U.S. blocked any U.N.
inquiry and few were interested enough to pursue the matter. That the
toll is dreadful is hardly in doubt." [MIT Professor Noam
Chomsky, 9-30-2001]
READ MORE:
Noam Chomsky
describes the repercussions of the 1998 U.S. bombing of the al-Shifa
pharmaceuticals factory in Sudan.
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