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...Sudan with a double whammy late Monday -- not more missiles, but a couple of withering charges about that Shifa Pharmaceuticals plant in northern Khartoum. Not only do intelligence sources claim possession of a "soil sample" containing EMPTA, an ingredient in VX nerve gas, but they also insist the factory was a chemical weapons bazaar -- primed to produce VX for Baghdad as well as Bin Laden. Nonsense, say the Sudanese: Soil samples from outside the plant are no indication of what's going on within, and taking samples from inside the plant would require a power drill. Futhermore, Sudan alleges, their...
...information appeared all over Tuesday's media. But the story creates more queries than it answers -- such as, why didn't the U.S. strike at a second Sudanese factory where it says Iraqi nerve gas scientists were working? And won't there still be traces of EMPTA in the Khartoum soil, even now? Such questions may just pique the U.N.'s interest after...
Chemical weapons or pharmaceuticals? Sudan has asked the United Nations to step in and resolve the question of what was being produced at the Khartoum factory hit by U.S. missiles last week. The Security Council will informally discuss the complaint on Monday and will decide later this week whether to appoint experts to test the remains of the wrecked site...
...true Islamic hero," says TIME New Delhi bureau chief Tim McGirk. The 22-member Arab League, many of whose members are pro-Western governments, urged the U.S. to refrain from further actions "which may arouse public outrage." Unless Washington has firm evidence of chemical-weapons production at the Khartoum factory, U.N. scrutiny of the attack is unlikely to help America turn the tide of Islamic world opinion...
Even with the Tomahawks flying and Sudan insisting that assaulting factories in Khartoum means having to say you?re sorry, Ken Starr?s grand jury keeps rollin? along. Although the special prosecutor needs to wrap up the case quickly and send the whole shebang off to the Hill, there are still some lose ends to take care of, such as hearing again from presidential pal Bruce Lindsey. And something tells us those 23 angry citizens haven?t heard the last of Monica...