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To: combjelly who wrote (263993)	12/9/2005 1:51:36 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1574267

History lessons TODAY'S EDITORIAL December 9, 2005 On Aug. 20, 1998, the United States launched cruise-missile strikes against the al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory in Khartoum, Sudan, and al Qaeda camps in Afghanistan. The strikes were in retaliation for the Aug. 7 al Qaeda truck-bomb attacks on two U.S. embassies in East Africa, which killed 257 persons and injured 5,000. Aug. 25, 1998 (ABC News) -- Before the pharmaceutical plant was reduced to rubble by American cruise missiles, the CIA was secretly gathering evidence that ended up putting the facility on America's target list. Intelligence sources say their agents clandestinely gathered soil samples outside the plant and found, quote, "strong evidence" of a chemical compound called EMPTA, a compound that has only one known purpose, to make VX nerve gas ... The U.S. had been suspicious for months, partly because of Osama bin Laden's financial ties, but also because of strong connections to Iraq. Sources say the U.S. had intercepted phone calls from the plant to a man in Iraq who runs that country's chemical weapons program.