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Politics : Clinton's Scandals: Is this corruption the worst ever?
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To: Bill who wrote (3501)9/1/1998 4:49:00 PM
From: Les H  Read Replies (3) of 13994
 
LOOKS LIKE U.S. GOOFED ON BOMBING...SEE BELOW

Sudan Attack Claims Faulty, U.S. Admits
By PAUL RICHTER, Times Staff Writer

ASHINGTON--With some close allies
voicing deepening doubts, U.S. officials
acknowledged Monday that they erred in their
original explanation of how they picked a
pharmaceutical plant in Sudan to be destroyed by cruise missiles on
Aug. 20.
Officials said they were unaware when Tomahawk missiles were
fired at the Shifa Pharmaceutical plant in the Sudanese capital that
the facility produced human and veterinary medicines for the
impoverished nation. And they conceded that Clinton administration
officials initially overstated evidence that suspected terrorist
mastermind Osama bin Laden held a financial stake in the facility.
Even so, officials insisted that the complex in northern Khartoum
was a legitimate target. And they stood behind their assertions that a
single soil sample secretly collected from just outside the facility was
sufficient proof that the factory was used to manufacture the deadly
nerve gas VX.
"In retrospect, with the benefit of hindsight, it was the right
target," said a U.S. intelligence official who spoke on condition of
anonymity.
Since the attack, critics both in the United States and abroad
have challenged the administration's rationale and explanations for
the strike, which was aimed at punishing Bin Laden for the Aug. 7
bombings outside the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania he
allegedly coordinated--and at heading off expected further such
assaults.
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