Sudan Starts Own Probe of Factory Bombed by US After UN Refuses to Investigate

On September 2, 1998, the media announced that Sudan’s Government is starting its own investigation of the ownership of a pharmaceutical factory in Khartoum, which was destroyed in a U.S. missile attack on August 20, 1998. The decision followed on the heels of a refusal by the United Nations to send a fact-finding mission to Sudan to establish the truth about the factory’s ownership and its operations, especially in regards to the allegations of the U.S. that it was producing precursors for VX nerve gas... [more]