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To: Platter who wrote (28277)8/25/1998 9:50:00 AM
From: Captain James T. Kirk  Read Replies (2) of 95453
 
Times: U.S. says Iraq aided Sudan on chemical weapons
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. administration and intelligence officials claim Iraqi scientists helped produce elements of the nerve agent VX at a Sudan factory bombed by the United States last week, The New York Times reported on Tuesday.

The U.S. administration justified the attack on the grounds of a soil sample secretly obtained months ago outside the El Shifa pharmaceutical factory, the officials told the newspaper.

Officially the United States has refused to reveal its evidence in any detail, or to say how it was obtained, it said.

The sample contained a rare chemical that would require two more complex steps to be turned into VX, one of the deadliest nerve agents in existence.

The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, also said there was evidence that senior Iraqi scientists had aided the efforts to make VX at the factory, and at another plant a couple of miles away.

The officials disclosed the information, four days after the American strike, to try to counter claims by the Sudanese government that the factory, located in an industrial area of Khartoum, was purely a benign commercial venture that produced half Sudan's medicines, The New York Times reported.

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