Owner of Bombed Sudanese Pharmaceutical Plants Presses the U.S. for Compensation and Release of Frozen Funds

An interesting legal and political battle is developing as counsel for Saudi Arabian businessman Saleh Idris, whose pharmaceutical plant in Sudan was destroyed in a U.S. missile attack on August 20, 1998, have approached the U.S. for compensation for the El Shifa pharmaceutical plant and the release of some $23 million in assets the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control U.S. Department of Treasury froze.