The Bitter Anniversary: The 20th of August (4)

Al-Shifa Pharmaceutical Factory was destructed by a notorious American aggression in 1998, on the basis that al-Shifa factory owners had connections with Al Qaeda, and the plant “produced the precursor chemicals that would allow the production of VX nerve agent”
Like all unfounded accusations the USA administration used to throw unwarily against Sudan, God has predestined voices from among its own people, and others, to present facts and provide logic to refute its claims. The following is a continuation of experts ideas disproving the USA claims:
The False Theory 2
Professor R. J. P. Williams FRS at Oxford University’s Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory was among the many scientists who rubbished U.S. claims about Empta:
“Types of the compound an ethyl-methyl-phosphorus derivative, can be bought on the open market. If every laboratory which has such a chemical is to be bombed, then it is goodbye to many chemistry departments in UK, USA and all over the world. The public must know the facts about the chemicals concerned in order to feel sure that terrorist targets were attacked and not innocent parties. People world-wide will support the effort to eliminate terrorists, but not just random reprisal raids, just to show the ability to strike anybody, anywhere. The USA must come clean, as must our government.”[18]
Malcolm Clark, writing in the New Statesman, noted other facts illustrating the inconsistencies in the U.S. allegation that al-Shifa was producing chemical weapons:
“Government ministers [from Sudan] had turned up to tour the site the day after the attack, as the plant was still smoking; it was hardly the behaviour of people afraid of chemical weapons in their midst. Then there was [Sudan’s] open invitation to the UN to send a team of investigators. There was also the testimony of a British engineer, Thomas Carnaffin, who had helped build the plant and who pointed out that the very minimum requirement for a chemical weapons plant was that it should have airlocks. The doors on this plant led directly into the streets of a busy Khartoum suburb.”
Clark went on to approach some of the leading scientific experts on malaria to question them about the possibility that the al-Shifa had actually been producing – among other medicines – anti-malaria tablets (chloroquine): “Was there any chance, I asked, that Clinton and Blair were wrong? Could the Sudanese government be right when it said the plant was making chloroquine? Well, yes, actually. Every last white-coated one of them was convinced it was a terrible mistake.”