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But forensics aside, even the media coverage of the Sudan strike gave Idris's attorneys plenty to work with. Within hours of the strike, sources ranging from Western diplomats and experts in the Sudan to unnamed U.S. government officials were questioning Washington's claims that:
The President was referring to a cruise missile strike, which, together with one on Afghanistan, he ordered in retaliation for the bombing of two U.S. embassies in East Africa, bombings that were allegedly authored by reputed super-terrorist Osama Bin Laden. But Salah Idris, who owns the Al Shifa pharmaceuticals...
Of course this isn't about Clinton, who relies entirely on his security advisers for such information. But Idris's complaint notes 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...
Saudi multimillionaire Salah Idris is preparing to sue the U.S. government in an effort to win back his good name--plus the $30 million or so he lost when the U.S. bombed his pharmaceutical factory last year. According to U.S. officials, Idris' plant in Khartoum stored chemical-weapons material and...
But while America has provided little evidence to implicate Idris, the Saudi businessman has commissioned a U.S. investigative firm to support his claim that his plant produced nothing but medicine. Aided by the D.C. law firm Akin, Gump (where President Clinton's friend Vernon Jordan is a partner), Idris won...