[Wikipedia]
Al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Shifa_pharmaceutical_factory The Al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory in Khartoum North, Sudan, was constructed between 1992 and 1996 with components imported
from Germany, India, Italy, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand and the United States.
It was opened 12 July 1997.[1][2]
The factory was destroyed in 1998 by a missile attack launched by the United States government, killing one employee and wounding eleven[citation needed].
The U.S. government alleged that the factory was used for the processing of VX nerve agent
and that the owners of the plant had ties to the terrorist group al-Qaeda.
These justifications for the bombing were disputed by the owners of the plant, the Sudanese government, and other governments.
American officials later acknowledged "that the evidence that prompted President Clinton
to order the missile strike on the Shifa plant was not as solid as first portrayed.
Indeed, officials later said that there was no proof that the plant had been manufacturing or storing nerve gas,
as initially suspected by the Americans, or had been linked to Osama bin Laden, who was a resident of Khartoum in the 1980s."[3]
[Gurdian]Oct 2001 08.18 BST
Strike one
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/oct/02/afghanistan.terrorism3 In 1998, America destroyed Osama bin Laden's 'chemical weapons' factory in Sudan.
It turned out that the factory made medicine.
So how did the attack affect this war-ravaged nation? With the west poised to strike again elsewhere, James Astill reports from Khartoum
The first thing Amin Mohamed knew about America's last war on international terrorism was when the roof caved in.
"It's the end of the world!" he screamed as 14 cruise missiles landed next door to the sweet factory he was guarding.
"The evidence was not conclusive and was not enough to justify an act of war," concedes Donald Petterson, former American ambassador to Sudan.
The evidence was supposed to consist of incriminating soil samples; they have never been produced.
Sudan's proposal that the UN should investigate was vetoed by America.
[New York Times]August 21, 1998
U.S. Cruise Missiles Strike Sudan and Afghan Targets Tied to Terrorist Network
https://partners.nytimes.com/library/world/africa/082198attack-us.html Dozens of U.S. cruise missiles struck targets in Afghanistan and the Sudan on Thursday in what President Clinton described
as an act of self-defense against imminent terrorist plots and of retribution for the bombings of U.S. embassies in East Africa two weeks ago.
The targets were identified by Pentagon officials as an extensive terrorism training complex in Afghanistan,
94 miles south of Kabul, and a factory for the building blocks of chemical weapons near Khartoum, the Sudan.