Sudanese Pharmaceutical Factory Owner Sues US for Bombing

On July 27, 2000, lawyers for Salah Idris, owner of the El-Shifa Pharmaceutical Industries Co. in Khartourm filed a complaint in the U.S. Claims Court, arguing that the U.S. Government improperly bombed his factory that he claims the U.S. improperly believed he was making chemical weapons.1 According to the complaint, the plant made antibiotics, veterinary and other drugs. It claims that a terrible ntelligence blunder by the U.S. Government was the reason for the bombing. The complain contends the plant had no facilities that could have been used to manufacture chemical weapons or any chemical components of chemical weapons...[more]