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The Teaspoon That Triggered Thirteen Tomahawks
The Teaspoon That Triggered Thirteen Tomahawks
A single teaspoon of soil collected near a pharmaceutical factory in Khartoum in December 1997 reportedly tested at 2.5 times the detectable threshold for EMPTA, a VX precursor - and within eight months thirteen Tomahawks missiles reduced that factory to rubble. How did one fourteen-month-old soil sample help justify a transcontinental military strike that destroyed Sudan’s main medicine supplier and cost hundreds their jobs?
In this episode, we trace what the available documents say about the intelligence, the decision timeline, and who pushed…
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