The bombings that killed and wounded hundreds of civilians near the American embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam sparked unanimous condemnation. Yes, the networks of fanatics who perpetrate such blind attacks that massacre innocent people can be called barbaric and criminal. Nothing, truly nothing can justify these horrors, which leave intact the imperialist powers they are supposedly targeting. Those powers seek to use such actions to reinforce their own propaganda and to justify brutal interventions under the cover of "fighting terrorism."

Precisely in this regard, the bombings carried out by the U.S. military against camps in Afghanistan and a pharmaceutical factory in Sudan must summon a response by all people. The United States continues to claim the unilateral right to trample on the sovereignty of nations. What other government in the world assumes the privilege of declaring single-handedly who is guilty, and then meting "punishment" against them in any country it chooses, without respecting borders and existing laws?

Those who are swayed by the notion that the United States acted within the framework of reasonable, legitimate defense should be reminded that the United States gave military and political support to the Taliban and fundamentalists who today turn against it. This, by the way, is a result of its indecent policy of backing Israeli aggression against the Arab peoples and U.S. anti-Muslim propaganda, which borders on racism.

We must remember that U.S. academies trained most dictators and fascist military cadres throughout the Americas, and that the CIA, linked to drug traffickers, armed and financed all kinds of "contras."

While one might argue over the strikes against training camps in the country of the Taliban, hitting a medicine factory in Sudan in reprisal against an attack on an embassy in Kenya constitutes an abject act of gangsterism.

The pretext? "Precursors for chemical weapons that could be produced there." Coming from a country with stocks of chemical and biological weapons and thousands of nuclear warheads on its territory, such a pretext would be cause for laughter if it were not such a serious matter.

The same week, an accident left 4 people dead and about 20 wounded, and endangered the security of 25,000 people at a factory that manufactures chemical and biological weapons in Tel Aviv, Israel. This terrorist state does not respect UN resolutions, occupying Palestinian, Syrian, and Lebanese territory in defiance of international law. But far from bombing that factory, the United States gives military and political support to Israel.

The Sudanese government has asked for the immediate sending of a UN investigative commission, which the United States opposes.

The bombing of a pharmaceutical plant in Sudan constitutes an act of piracy. The United States practices international terrorism. That country views itself as above all international laws, as shown by:

its attempts to impose supranational laws (Helms-Burton, D'Amato);

its repeated military interventions in violation of UN authority;

its practice of starving populations and killing children by refusing access to medicine, through embargoes that aim to destroy countries opposing its imperial strategy.

The United States

encourages anti-Castro training camps (Alpha 66) on its territory that are responsible for terrorist actions against Cuba;

protects the terrorists responsible for sabotaging a commercial airplane, killing young Cuban and Barbadian athletes;

massacred 4,000 civilians in Panama under the pretext of kidnapping President Noriega, who, incidentally, was formerly a CIA collaborator.

Would the United States allow a third country to bomb its national territory?

In any case, the wave of popular protests against the U.S. bombing of the pharmaceutical plant announces that sooner or later the people will put an end to the arrogant hegemonism of the Yankee imperialists.  
 
 
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