Khartoum, Sudan. August 25, 1998. I came across this photo while digging through some old things yesterday, and for some reason found it ironic. Well, maybe not ironic, but interesting nonetheless. I remembered that I had cut this photo out of the newspaper, and used it as the cover of a mix tape I had put together. It seemed emblematic of the absurdity of the times: a president who was so gifted politically that it was believable that he would kill innocent civilians to distract from troubling political circumstances here at home. He thought that Al-Qaeda and Iraq had a working relationship, and that the danger of a country handing off biological or chemical weapons (or the knowledge to make them) to terrorists was so immediate, that he had to bomb the factory where he thought these weapons were being made. Turns out that he bombed an aspirin factory, and that faulty intelligence was to blame. Muslims, as the photo suggests, and some of the presidentÂ’s critics, were enraged. They thought it was all about sex. Or maybe they thought it was about oil. Some people will believe anything.