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...that U.S. officials steadily backed away from some of the allegations about the factory and its owner made in the weeks following the strike, eventually basing their justification for the attack primarily on the claim that a soil sample collected near the plant contained traces of EMPTA, a chemical compound used in the manufacture of VX nerve gas. That's why Idris's lawyers commissioned research institutes in Boston and the Netherlands to independently examine samples taken from the ruins of the plant, which experts agree would likely still contain substantial evidence of chemical weapons agents were any being produced...
...decision to bomb this target in the Sudan," National Security Council spokesman P.J. Crowley told TIME.com Friday. "We stand by the information that we had at the time that Osama Bin Laden was seeking to acquire weapons of mass destruction, and we were able to link a compound used in the making of chemical weapons to the Al Shifa factory. There's nothing that we've found out since that changes our view that we made the right decision...
Indeed, convincing enough that Gordon has just completed a successful safety trial on human volunteers. Scheduled next is a human trial for the efficacy of the compound that may someday, if all goes well, not only contain sepsis but perhaps even prevent...
...right, one of those scissors, gamma secretase, may actually be the presenilin-1 protein. Whatever the true identity of gamma secretase turns out to be, pharmaceutical companies are rushing to develop drugs that block it. Bristol-Myers Squibb has already started safety tests of one such compound and hopes to expand its study soon...
Yasser Arafat's call for reinforcements Friday confirmed - as if any confirmation was necessary - that the Camp David talks are an uphill battle. The Palestinian leader invited members of opposition groups who had opposed the Oslo Peace process to join him for consultations inside the sequestered compound, citing a need to canvass a wider body of Palestinian opinion. TIME.com phoned West Bank correspondent Jamil Hamad in Bethlehem to assess the latest developments...