Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Les H who wrote (1359)	8/31/1998 3:06:00 PM
From: Les H	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 67261

dawn.com Bombed factory made pharmaceuticals: German envoy BONN, Aug 29: The Sudan factory hit by US missiles did not make components for possible chemical weapons but only pharmaceuticals and veterinary products, Germany's ambassador to Khartoum was quoted on Saturday as saying. "The factory mainly produces antibiotics, medicaments against diarrhoea and malaria, preparations for transfusions and veterinary products," Werner Daum was quoted by the German news magazine Der Spiegel as saying in an internal report to his government. The magazine quoted from a leaked five-page report by Bonn's mission chief to Sudan on the strike against the plant, which Washington claimed had been making chemical elements of the nerve gas VX. Sudan has vehemently denied Washington's claims about the activities of the Al-Shifa plant which was destroyed in the August 20 US attack, saying it produced only pharmaceutical products. "In no way can the plant be described as a chemical factory," the German envoy was quoted as saying in Monday's edition of Der Spiegel, an advance copy of which was made available. "A number of pharmacologists and business representatives visited the enterprise daily," he said. "All the raw materials came from China and Europe." A source close to the German government confirmed that Daum had faxed a note to Bonn on the night of the US attack. But the source said that it had been a hurried draft "written without knowledge of the facts and the general circumstances." German foreign ministry spokesman Martin Erdmann had no comment on the reported message by the Khartoum ambassador. Der Spiegel itself said that after the German government had given its backing to the US raids on the Sudan factory and an alleged terrorist base in Afghanistan, the Bonn foreign and defence ministries had not taken the ambassador's report too seriously and had treated it as "subjective." The raids were in retaliation for terrorist bomb blasts at US embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam which claimed 257 lives, including those of 12 Americans. Sudanese President Omar el-Beshir launched an appeal on Saturday for "resistance" against the US. "The United States has made a grave mistake in declaring war against us," Beshir said.-AFP