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| Sudan 'may destroy MV Faina' | |
| 2009-02-06 | |
| A Somali military official says that Sudanese forces may attempt to destroy a Ukrainian vessel which has just been released by pirates. Somali rebels hijacked the MV Faina and its huge shipment of weaponry last September. Pirate spokesman Sugule Ali later claimed that the vessel had been carrying arms for Sudanese Christian opposition groups and that they were intended for use the Muslim majority and President Omar al-Bashir's administration. On Wednesday, following 19 weeks of fear over the misuse of the armament, pirates released Faina in exchange for a $3.2 million ransom. The ship then set sail for the Kenyan port of Mombasa. After its arrival at the port city, Sudanese soldiers might attempt to blow the ship up in order to eliminate the possibility of the weapons falling into the wrong hands, Press TV's correspondent quoted military official Abdulle Hassan Amin as saying.
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| Posted by:Fred |