Al-Shifa pharmaceutical
factory
Sudan
[The long reach of Psychopathic Allopathy Inc.]
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President Clinton ordered or sanctioned the Pentagon’s Operation Infinite
Reach, an illegal cruise-missile strike on Afghanistan (50 cruise missiles) and
Sudan (25 cruise missiles), destroying a purported chemical weapons facility at
the Al Shifa pharmaceutical factory in August of 1998. Sudan at the time had
been designated a terrorist state by the Clinton Administration. Britain
supported the attack, and the lies that were used to justify it. The plant,
which had its official opening in June 1997, was privately owned and partly
financed by the Eastern and Southern African Preferential Trade Association. Al-Shifa
was extremely important to the Sudan: it had raised the country's
self-sufficiency in medicine from about 3% to over 50%. It produced 60-90% of
the drugs used to treat the Sudan's seven leading causes of death; malaria and
tuberculosis are at the top of the list. Al-Shifa also produced virtually all of
the country's veterinary medicine. The Sudan has very large herds of camels,
cattle, sheep and goats, all vital to the economy and food supply, and all
susceptible to treatable infestations and diseases.
The plant was bombed in August of
1998, after one year in operation, and the message was clear: there will be no
independent economic players impinging on Western pharmaceutical profits and
their global empires.--[2007 Feb] Oil in Darfur? Special Ops in Somalia?
The New Old "Humanitarian" Warfare in Africa by Keith Harmon Snow
See: Clinton, Bill