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Politics : Clinton's Scandals: Is this corruption the worst ever? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DMaA who wrote (6329)	9/18/1998 12:19:00 AM
From: Scrapps	Respond to of 13994

Carter urges inquiry into U.S. bombing on Sudan New York Times News Service UNITED NATIONS -- Former President Jimmy Carter, saying the credibility of the United States is on the line over the bombing of a pharmaceutical factory in the Sudan that the Clinton administration said was making an ingredient for nerve gas, called Thursday for a technical investigation. The United States hit the factory on Aug. 21, the same day that Washington sent missiles raining down on suspected terrorist training camps in Afghanistan linked to Osama bin Laden, whom the administration blamed for a role in the bombings of two American embassies in Africa. The Sudanese government came to the United Nations to request an independent study of the site in Khartoum, the Shifa Pharmaceutical Industries plant, to prove that the factory's only function was making medicine and veterinary supplies. The United States argued strenuously against the request, and the Security Council shelved the discussion. In a statement Thursday, Carter said that British, German and other foreign leaders were increasingly skeptical of American assertions about the factory, which Washington linked to Iraqi chemical weapons projects. ''Despite early American reluctance to support this request,'' Carter said, ''this is something that now needs to be done.'' ''If the Sudanese are guilty, they should be condemned both for lying and for contributing to terrorist activities,'' he said. ''Otherwise, we should admit our error and make amends to those who have suffered loss or injury.''