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Africa North
Two Iran Warships in Sudan for 'Routine' Fueling
2013-09-19
[AnNahar] Two Iranian warships have entered Sudan's territorial waters and were heading to dock for "routine" fueling, a front man of Sudanese army said on Wednesday.
And to off-load Qassam rockets for Hamas, to be ported up through Egypt and the Sinai, thence through a tunnel, and then aimed randomly at the evil Zionists...
"Two Iranian ships have entered our territorial waters, one of them is a destroyer and the other is a supplies vessel," Colonel Sawarmi Khaled Saad told Agence La Belle France Presse.

He said the vessels are stopping in Sudan for a "routine and regular visit" to get "supplies, food and water".

In October, two Iranian navy vessels called at Port Sudan, followed by two more in December, in what Khartoum described as a "normal" port stop.

Israel considers the area of the Red Sea and east Sudan as a passage for arms smuggled to Islamist Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, movement in the Gazoo Strip.

Khartoum's links with Iran came under scrutiny after Sudan accused Israel of being behind an October 23 strike against the Yarmouk military factory in the capital, which led to speculation that Iranian weapons were stored or manufactured there.

Last month, Saudi authorities denied permission for a plane carrying Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir
Head of the National Congress Party. He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself president-for-life. He has fallen out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to Arabize Darfur by unleashing the barbaric Janjaweed on it. Sudan's potential prosperity has been pissed away in warfare that has left as many as 400,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it.
to cross its airspace for the swearing-in of Iran's new president.

Riyadh said Bashir's flight plan lacked prior approval.
Posted by:trailing wife

#3  Might be carrying arms for the Brotherhood in Egypt rather than Hamas.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2013-09-19 10:10  

#2  time for another desert convoy strike
Posted by: Frank G   2013-09-19 07:58  

#1  Sudan has a coaling station and a sailmaker's shop? I mean, who knew??
Posted by: Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo)   2013-09-19 01:19  

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