Arab fact-finding committee to visit bombed Sudanese pharmaceutical factory

The secretary-general of the Sudanese pharmacists' syndicate, Salah Swar El-Zahab, announced today that an Arab scientific fact-finding committee is going to visit Sudan to examine the nature of what was produced in El-Shifaa pharmaceutical factory, which Washington alleges produced component chemicals for chemical weapons due, which the US destroyed the factory in an August 20 missile strike.

In a press conference with a delegation from the Egyptian Pharmacists Union, visiting El-Khartoum, Swar El-Zahab said the committee will make a comprehensive scientific investigation and announce its outcome later.

The deputy of Egyptian Pharmacists Union, Mohammed Abdul El-Jawad, stated that the committee can use specialists and experts, then he denied that the factory has any relation with producing chemical weapons or poisonous gases.