Reply #9: It Wasn't A Factory For Chemical Weapons [View All]

[ProfessorGAC]

Of course, any industrial chemistry equipment can be used for that, but the real reason that factory was bombed was that it was the money funneling route for al Qaeda. This has never been, of course, admitted to by the gov't, either then or now. But, this has been speculated upon by reporters here and in Britain for several years, and not one gov't official has ever denied or refuted it.

But, i've always accepted this theory, because there isn't a whole lot of value for an aspirin factory that small in a country as populated as Sudan. And, given where it was, the distribution network would have been almost non-existent. So, i've always believed the reports that it was bombed because it was being used to channel money around and "launder" it to look like "legitimate" business transactions. Al Qaeda cannot use banks. It's too easy to trace the cash.

But, that factory didn't have the storage facilities needed to store the basic raws to make chemical weapons. It could have been fitted for that, but the pressure tanks and isolation valving did not exist. One could tell just from the photos of the plant.
The Professor