This is a follow-up to a four-and-a-half month old thread. Regrettably (I think that's the words diplomats prefer in these situations), it appears that my suspicions may have been correct.
) [The Washington Times] ) Published in Washington, D.C. 5am -- May 5, 1999 ) www.washtimes.com ) U.S. OKs payout for Sudan bombing 'mistake' ) ------------------------------------------------ ) By Jerry Seper ) THE WASHINGTON TIMES ) ------------------------------------------------ ) [T] he Clinton administration will not ) challenge a lawsuit filed by a Saudi ) businessman who said the bombing last year of ) his pharmaceutical plant in Sudan was a ) "mistake" based on faulty intelligence data. ) The administration also agreed to release ) $24 million in assets that the businessman, ) Saleh Idris, had deposited in U.S. banks. ) The Aug. 20, 1998, cruise missile attack, ) which the White House claimed was in ) retaliation for terrorist attacks on two U.S. ) embassies in Africa, came three days after ) President Clinton's appearance before a federal ) grand jury investigating his relationship with ) Monica Lewinsky. ) Hours after his grand jury testimony, Mr. ) Clinton made a dramatic address to the nation ) admitting an "inappropriate relationship" with ) the former White House intern. ) The White House insisted at the time it ) bombed the plant, located near Khartoum, Sudan, ) because it was tied to international terrorist ) Osama bin Laden and was producing precursors to ) VX nerve gas. Sudan countered that the plant ) manufactured only pharmaceuticals and offered ) inspection tours for U.S. officials and ) reporters. ) Facing a deadline to respond to the suit, ) filed Feb. 26, the Justice Department told Mr. ) Idris' attorneys on Monday that the ) administration had ordered that the freeze ) placed on his U.S. bank accounts be lifted ) immediately. The article continues, but I will stop here... Jim Earlier I wrote: > Please know that as an American I am embarrassed by the actions of my > President. He halted the bombing two hours after the articles of > impeachment passed, calling back British bombers who were in the > process of conducting further missions (I believe the bombing did > continue after Ramadan started--can anyone confirm this--which he had > said he wanted to avoid). > > I am ashamed of his recent politically motivated bombing in Iraq as > well as his bombings in August in the Sudan and Afghanistan > immediately after his Grand Jury questioning. He also conducted a > smaller cruise-missile attack on Iraq early in the year, shortly after > the Lewinsky matter first became public. > > By all means keep an eye on his rogue international behavior and > 'convenient coincidences.' I fear you will have opportunity to test > your hypothesis. > > Jim > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > I had the same thought, so last week in the first hours of the > > > bombing I checked my own GPS receiver. I found the GPS position > > > to agree perfectly with the topographic map position of my > > > backyard (to the nearest arcsecond in both coordinates, the limit > > > of the display). Usually one of the numbers differs in the last > > > digit, but not that night! > > > Roger > > > let's test it next time the "fly" theory comes into action again. :-) > > > - fernando > > > -- > > Fernando Cabral Padrao iX Sistemas Abertos > > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pix.com.br > > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Fone: +55 61 321-2433 Fax: +55 61 225-3082 > > 15=BA 45' 04.9" S 47=BA 49' 58.6" W > > 19=BA 37' 57.0" S 45=BA 17' 13.6" W
