To: Douglas V. Fant who wrote (28082 ) 8/20/1998 7:24:00 PM From: Douglas V. Fant Respond to of 95453
Gang, Excerpt from CNN Article: The president said he ordered the strike against bin Laden and his compatriots because of "compelling information they were planning additional terrorist attacks against our citizens and others with the inevitable collateral casualties and .. seeking to acquire chemical weapons and other dangerous weapons." Rubble, fire in Khartoum Sudanese television showed piles of rubble at the factory and fire raging in the distance. People were seen walking through the damage, wearing masks. Sudanese officials reacted angrily to the attacks. Interior Minister Abdul Rahim told CNN in a telephone interview that the privately owned pharmaceutical firm had "nothing to do with chemical weapons." "We have no chemical weapons factory in our country," he said. A statement read on Sudanese television about an hour after the attack said, "The wrongful American air force launched air attacks on Sudan tonight which aimed at strategic and vital areas." There was no report as to the number of casualties. Note: the Sudan actually has not one but two chemical weapon plants, the plant hit today near Khartoum and another plant under construction near Wau, in West Central Sudan. And President Clinton spoke quite correctly- we are in a long running war with sick, perverted, twisted, murderous religious fanatics. The plants by the way were being built with assistance from Iraqi engineers and scientists... Now you know another reason why sanctions will not be lifted against Iraq (Iraq is also currently helping Libya build a chemical weapons plant). And realize that your life means nothing to the Islamic fundamentalists. In the Sudan over 1,000,000 Africans have died in a savage civil war over the last few years with the National Islamic Front Junta. In addition Arab Muslim slave traders have kidnapped thousands of African children and sold them as slaves into Saudi Arabia and Mauretania. Indeed our Company works in Saudi Arabia. Routinely whenver we post African American employees to those facilities, a Saudi will come up to our employee and try to ascertain whether he is from "Khartoum" or Port Sudan"- i.e., whether they are an indentured servant of a Saudi Citizen. Note too that the NIF Regime has already used chemical weapons against the Rebel SPLA ethnic African forces in a number of occasions on the battlefields of the southern Sudan. The point being that even there though is an oil production overcapacity in the Middle East, beware that only 50 years after Nazi Germany was destroyed a new form of fascism, this one cloaked in religious dogma, stalks the land, and may significantly disrupt that supply balance.... Sincerely, Doug F.