To: E who wrote (127270 ) 3/23/2004 8:14:25 PM From: Ilaine Respond to Given that Clarke himself told the Washington Post that Iraqi agents were responsible for the production of VX gas at Al Shifa, and that the plant was also connected to bin Laden and National Islamic Front in Sudan, maybe he has himself to blame for the Bush administration thinking that Iraq was somehow connected to bin Laden.Clarke said that the U.S. government is "sure" that Iraqi nerve gas experts actually produced a powdered VX-like substance at the plant that, when mixed with bleach and water, would have become fully active VX nerve gas. But he said that intelligence exists linking bin Laden to El Shifa's current and past operators, the Iraqi nerve gas experts and the National Islamic Front in Sudan.
