The west launched its Kabul tragedy 23 years ago in sleepy Sudan Nesrine Malik
Aug 27, 2021
3 minutes
Illustration Ben Jennings
n August 1998, two weeks after a little-known terror outfit called al-Qaida announced itself to the world with bomb attacks on the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, President Bill Clinton retaliated with missile strikes against a pharmaceutical factory in Sudan. Khartoum was rocked by the impact of a dozen Tomahawk missiles, which destroyed the plant, killing a night watchman and wounding 11 others. The US claimed the factory – which was the largest provider of medicines in a country under sanctions – was secretly producing nerve agents on
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