From: Biniam Haile \(SWE\) (eritrea.lave@comhem.se)
Date: Mon Apr 27 2009 - 16:01:20 EDT
Sudanese president says Israel behind airstrike on convoy
Monday 27 April 2009 05:30.
April 26, 2009 (KHARTOUM) - The Sudanese president Omer Hassan Al-Bashir
acknowledged for the first time that Israel may be behind the attack on
a suspected arms convoy in the Eastern of the country that was uncovered
by US officials last month.
Al-Bashir in an interview with the Qatar based Al-Jazeera TV said that
the government's initial reports indicated that it was US warplanes
carried out the airstrike.
However after contacting the Americans they assured Khartoum that they
were not behind the aerial bombardment.
According to a 'TIME' magazine report last month an informant told
Israel's foreign intelligence agency (Mossad) earlier this year that
Iran was planning a major delivery of a substantial amount of arms and
explosives to Gaza including anti-tank rockets and Fajir rockets with a
25 mile range and a 45 kg warhead.
The Israelis pulled together a plan involving drones, fighter jets and
naval vessels to bomb the suspected arms convoy. The number of
casualties remain unknown thought some figures put the death toll at 29
people.
In the interview Bashir said that one person survived the attack but he
did not elaborate.
This week anonymous sources in Khartoum told the Egyptian Al-Osbo'o
newspaper that Israel drowned an Iranian vessel that carried weapons
bound to Gaza last week.
There has been conflicting reports on the number of strikes launched by
Israeli planes since January as some said that multiple airstrikes took
place.
(ST)
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