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Sudan Says Has No Links to Red Sea 'Arms Ship'
2014-03-07
"Wudn't us! (Please don't hurt us...)"
[An Nahar] Sudan has no connection with a ship intercepted in the Red Sea allegedly carrying rockets from Iran to Gazoo, Khartoum's foreign ministry said on Thursday.

"We have nothing to do with this," foreign ministry front man Abubakr Al-Siddiq told AFP, adding that the vessel was in international waters.

Israel intercepted the "Klos-C" in the Red Sea between Eritrea
...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age...
and Sudan on Wednesday, claiming that Syrian-made weapons aboard had been shipped overland to Iran then onward by sea.

According to Israel, the M302 missiles were to have been offloaded at Port Sudan and then taken overland towards Gazoo via Egypt's Sinai Peninsula.
Right overland through Egypt. North to Cairo, thence to Alexandria, make a right, follow the coast and there you are. All without being detected, of course...
Khartoum's links with Iran came under scrutiny after Sudan accused Israel of being behind an October, 2012 strike against the Yarmouk military factory in the Sudanese capital, which led to speculation that Iranian weapons were stored or manufactured there.

Israel refused all comment on Sudan's accusation about the factory blast.
After all, actions do speak louder...
But officials in the Jewish state had expressed concern
...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended...
about arms smuggling through Sudan and have long accused Khartoum of serving as a base of support for bully boyz from the Islamist Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, movement that rules the Gazoo Strip.

Iranian warships have periodically docked in Port Sudan, most recently in September, for what Sudan called "routine" visits.
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