CLINTON SUED OVER SUDAN STRIKE
Dec 13, 2001 03:45 PM
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Thursday, December 7, 2001
MISSILE RAUNCH President Clinton in 1996 ordered this Sudan
pharmaceutical plant destroyed by cruise missiles just to distract the
media from Sexgate revelations, the owner charges.
SUIT: SEXGATE SPURRED CLINTON AIRSTRIKE
By VINCENT MORRIS
WASHINGTON - Then-President Clinton was aiming to "restore his
popularity" after the Monica Lewinsky sex scandal when he bombed a
medicine-making plant in Sudan, according to a lawsuit filed by the
plant's owner.
The suit, which seeks $50 million in damages, blasts Clinton's claim
that the plant was "associated" with terrorist mastermind Osama bin
Laden.
Clinton turned the plant - which reportedly made ibuprofen, antibiotics
and anti-diarrhea pills - into rubble in 1998 when he ordered
cruise-missile strikes in the midst of the Monica investigation.
"There was no factual warrant for the destruction of the plant," says
Stephen Brogan, a lawyer representing Salah Idris, who owned the plant
and filed the lawsuit.
"Three days before the attack, President Clinton appeared on national
television and made certain admissions about his conduct that were
personally and politically embarrassing to him and to the first lady,"
Brogan added.
"By ordering the U.S. military into action to destroy this claimed
threat to the American people, President Clinton and his advisers sought
to restore his diminished presidential authority and popularity."
Clinton declined comment.
The U.S. government, which is named as the plaintiff, wants a federal
judge to dismiss the suit. It was filed last summer but has received
little attention.
Associated Press
"You are not your job. You're not how much money you have in the bank.
You're not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet" -
Tyler Durden, Fight Club.
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