Weapons of Mass Destruction in the Middle East

Al-Shifa Pharmaceutical Plant:
Key Reports & Analyses of the U.S. Attack and CW Allegations

(20 August 1998 to 15 April 1999)

David Hirst, "Why Our Drug Factory? Why Not the Arsenal?" The Guardian (London), August 22, 1998, (http://reports.guardian.co.uk/sp_reports/usbombs/408.html).

David Hirst, "The 'Secret' Factory that No One Tried to Hide," The Guardian (London), August 23, 1998, (http://reports.guardian.co.uk/sp_reports/usbombs/424.html).

Daniel Pearl, "Sudan Plant's Apparent Owner Has No Known Extremist Ties," Wall Street Journal, August 24, 1998, p. A9.

Barbara Starr, "More Questions than Answers," ABC News, August 26, 1998, (http://www.abcnews.com:80/).

Jacquelyn S. Porth, "U.S. Has Chemical Weapons-Related Soil Sample from Sudan Plant," United States Information Agency, undated, (http://www.usia.gov/topical/pol/terror/98082502.htm).

Steven Lee Myers and Tim Weiner, "Possible Benign Use Is Seen for Chemical at Factory in Sudan," New York Times, August 27, 1998, p. 1.

"Sudanese Opposition Corroborate American Accusations," Al-Hayah (London), August 26, 1998, p. 6; in FBIS document FTS19980827000590, August 27, 1998.

Terry Atlas and Ray Moseley, "Smoking Gun for Sudan Raid Now in Doubt," Chicago Tribune, August 28, 1998, (http://chicagotribune.com).

Daniel Pearl, "More Doubts Rise Over Claims for U.S. Attack," Wall Street Journal, August 28, 1998, p. 8.

Mark Hubbard and Clive Cookson, "Diplomats Query US Allegations on Sudan," Financial Times (London), August 29, 1998.

Tim Weiner and Steven Lee Meyers, "Flaws in U.S. Account Raise Questions on Strike in Sudan," New York Times, August 29, 1998, p. 1.

Lois Ember, "Soil Sample Key to U.S. Missile Strike in Sudan," Chemical and Engineering News, August 31, 1998, pp. 6-7.

Russell Watson and John Barry, "Our Target Was Terror," Newsweek, August 31, 1998, pp. 24-29.

Richard J. Newman, "America Fights Back," U.S. News & World Report, August 31, 1998, pp. 38-46.

Vernon Loeb and Bradley Graham, "Sudan Plant Was Probed Months before Attack," Washington Post, September 1, 1998.

Paul Richter, "Sudan Attack Claims Faulty, U.S. Admits," Los Angeles Times, September 1, 1998.

Bob Arnot, "Sudan: Bad, Yes, But Is it Guilty Too?," MSNBC News, September 2, 1998, (http://www.msnbc.com/news/190722.asp).

Tim Weiner and Steven Lee Myers, "U.S. Defends Attack on Sudanese Drug Plant," New York Times, September 3, 1998.

"Report on Bin-Ladin's Activities, Wealth," Al-Watan Al-'Arabi (Paris), September 4, 1998, pp. 23-28; in FBIS document FTS19980905000918, September 5, 1998.

Kenneth Roth, "Letter to Clinton Urges Sudan Factory Inspection," Human Rights Watch, September 15, 1998 (http://www.hrw.org/hrw/sept/sudan915.htm).

Tim Weiner and James Risen, "Decision to Strike Factory in Sudan Based on Surmise Inferred From Evidence," New York Times, September 21, 1998, p. A1.

Frank Smyth, "Culture Clash - Bin Laden, Khartoum, and the War Against the West," Jane's Intelligence Review, October 1, 1998, p. 22.

"Cohen Defends Bin Laden Raid Plans," MSNBC News, October 6, 1998, (http://www.msnbc.com:80/news/202142.asp).

Seymour M. Hersh, "Annals of National Security: The Missiles of August," New Yorker, October 12, 1998, pp. 34-41.

Daniel Pearl, "Sudan to Allow U.N. to Investigate Any Alleged Chemical-Arm Site," Wall Street Journal, October 16, 1998, p. 13.

Samuel R. Berger, "Why the U.S. Bombed," Washington Times, October 16, 1998, p. 21.

Karl Vick, "Many in Sudan Dispute Plant's Tie with Bomber," Washington Post, October 22, 1998, p. 29.

Daniel Pearl, "In Sudan Bombing, 'Evidence' Depends on Who Is Viewing It," Wall Street Journal, October 28, 1998, p. 1.

Glenn Zorpette with Steven J. Frank, "Patent Blunder," Scientific American, November 1998, p. 42.

Sean D. Murphy, "Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law," American Journal of International Law 93:1 (January 1999), pp. 161-67.

Vernon Loeb, "Embassy Attacks Thwarted, U.S. Says," Washington Post, January 23, 1999, p. A2.

Vernon Loeb, "Saudi Demands Compensation for Destroyed Plant," Washington Post, February 4, 1999, p. A9.

James Risen and David Johnston, "Experts Find No Arms at Bombed Sudan Plant," New York Times, February 9, 1999, p. 1.

Sheila MacVicar, "Blinded by (Bad) Science," ABC News, (http://www.abcnews.go.com), February 10, 1999.

Maureen Rouhi, "No Trace of Nerve Gas Precursor Found at Bombed Sudan Plant," Chemical and Engineering News, February 15, 1999, pp. 11-12.

Vernon Loeb, "Plant Owner to Sue U.S. to Free Frozen Assets," Washington Post, February 26, 1999, p. A3.

Ali Sultan, "Sudan Plant Owner: Bin-Laden Not Involved," Al-Ittihad (Abu Dhabi), March 9, 1999, p. 23; in FBIS document FTS19990315001805, March 9, 1999.

Vernon Loeb, "Ex-CIA Analyst: El Shifa Not What U.S. Claimed," Washington Post, March 30, 1999, p. 15.

Tim Weiner, "U.S. Case Against Bin Laden in Embassy Blasts Seems to Rest on Ideas," New York Times, April 13, 1999, p. 1 (http://partners.nytimes.com/library/world/africa/092198attack-sudan.html?Partner=PBS&RefId=Eutttn-uFBqv).

Michael Barletta and Erik Jorgensen. April 1999.
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Monterey Institute of International Studies.