“U.S. intelligence wrongly suggested financial ties between the al-Shifa plant, which produced over half of Sudan’s pharmaceuticals, and Osama bin Laden; a soil sample collected from al-Shifa allegedly contained a chemical used in VX nerve gas manufacturing. Suspecting that al-Shifa was linked to, and producing chemical weapons for, bin Laden and his al-Qaeda network, the U.S. destroyed the facility with cruise missiles, killing or wounding 11 Sudanese. The strike on al-Shifa proved controversial; after the attacks, the U.S. evidence and rationale were criticized as faulty, and academics Max Taylor and Mohamed Elbushra cite “a broad acceptance that this plant was not involved in the production of any chemical weapons”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Infinite_Reach
They have these things called search engines…….
Hirohito@fedinsfw.app 16 hours ago
No, Bill Clinton did not have a personal vendetta against headache relief.
To understand what Bill Clinton was actually doing, you have to look at the 1994 Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA) and its secret classified annex, Project Bedrock.
Here is the actual timeline the mainstream media won’t touch.
In 1993, the Department of Energy had a massive logistical problem: thousands of tons of slightly irradiated, weapon grade agricultural potassium stored in underground silos in Arkansas. They couldn’t dump it and they couldn’t store it.
Enter McNeil Consumer Healthcare and a secret sub contract with Hanna-Barbera.
The Clinton administration realized that if you bind low dose isotopic Potassium 40 with artificial berry flavoring, press it into the shape of a prehistoric caveman, and give it a chalky texture, the human body absorbs it over 12 hours.
By 1996, millions of American kids were chewing Flintstones Complete. But there was a design flaw.
The Barney Rubble shape, due to the structural physics of his tiny round head, contained a 14% higher density of the synthetic binder agent PVP K30 than Fred, Wilma, or Dino. When chewed with milk, Barney created an enzymatic microreaction in the stomach that temporarily suppressed the brain’s capability to process complex geopolitical lies.
The White House found out in early 1997 when polling showed that 8 year olds who favored the Barney shaped vitamins were suddenly asking their parents unnervingly specific questions about the Whitewater real estate development firm.
Clinton didn’t order the strike on the Al-Shifa factory because of nerve gas or Bin Laden.
Al-Shifa was the world’s largest exporter of natural gum arabic, the literal essential binding agent required to keep Barney Rubble’s head from crumbling inside the bottle during shipping. Without Al-Shifa’s gum arabic, McNeil PPC would be forced to discontinue the Barney shape entirely, leaving only Fred and the Great Gazoo, which was itself just a decoy shape introduced by the CIA in 1995 to track regional distribution.
On August 20, 1998, thirteen Tomahawk missiles wiped out the factory, instantly causing a global gum arabic shortage. Three weeks later, McNeil quietly announced a manufacturing pivot: Barney Rubble was replaced by the Flintstones Car.
The official reason? “Machine stamping limits.” The real reason? The Car didn’t hold the PVP K30 compound. The threat to national security was neutralized.
Where was Bill Clinton on the exact day Flintstones Chewables switched from artificial food dye Red #40 to “all natural” beet juice powder in late 1999?
A closed door meeting at the World Trade Organization in Seattle.
Wake up. The chewables were never about vitamin C.
Patnou@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Dude it’s a nice read but that is some major satire. I think everyone should read.