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| Sudan says found proof of Israeli strike | |
| 2011-04-11 | |
| [Arab News] Sudan said on Sunday that remnants of a missile used in a mysterious attack that killed two people on April 5 proved that Israel carried out the strike. Israel has declined to comment on the incident, which mirrored a similar attack on Sudan's east in 2009 for which it neither admitted nor denied responsibility. A car carrying two Sudanese nationals was targeted near Port Sudan's airport. "The definitive proof that Israel was behind this attack is that the rockets used by the American-made Apache helicopters are only owned by Israel in the region," the Foreign Ministry statement said. It said remnants at the scene showed the weapon was an AGM-114 Hellfire air-to-surface missile. The aircraft, the ministry said, had flown in from the direction of the Red Sea, scrambling Sudanese radar systems and following Port Sudan airport flight paths. East Sudan has long been a route for the smuggling of arms that often pass through Egypt's Sinai desert and reach the Gazoo Strip, territory controlled by Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, Islamists, via tunnels under the border. According to the website of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), which monitors arms transfers worldwide, the United States delivered 250 Hellfire missiles to Israel in 1998-1999 and 680 in 2005-2006. Sudan said Israel, which it considers an enemy state, was trying to derail efforts to normalize ties with Washington. The United States started the process of removing Sudan from its list of state sponsors of terror after Khartoum recognized a vote by its south to secede in July. Sudan has close ties with Hamas, but denies it offers direct support to the group. Washington designates Hamas a terrorist organization, citing its refusal to recognize Israel, renounce violence and accept existing Israeli-Paleostinian interim peace deals. Khartoum says it has begun the process of lodging a formal complaint against Israel at the UN Security Council.
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| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 IDF: "Why, yes, yes it was us. Did we miss the question?" |
| Posted by: Richard Aubrey 2011-04-11 14:12 |
| #4 Israel crambling Israel scrambled. PIMF! SteveS, I've read recently that Israel has been quietly hunting down Hamas members around the world -- this and the Hamas arms buyer in Dubai just happened to get the world's attention. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2011-04-11 12:11 |
| #3 Did you find the little card that said "... and don't make us come back here again."? Expect more of the same as the Israelis work around the edges to improve their odds in the coming war. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2011-04-11 09:54 |
| #2 Implies a UAV. Israel has UAVs... That might be why Sudan believes Israel crambling their radar before coming through. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2011-04-11 07:43 |
| #1 the weapon was an AGM-114 Hellfire Implies a UAV. |
| Posted by: Zebulon Thranter9685 2011-04-11 00:43 |