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26.03.09, 05:18
W Styczniu ktos zaatakowal konwoj w Sudanie w ktorym bylo 17 ciezarowek z
bronia. One jechaly w kierunku Egiptu i pozniej do Synaju...
March 25, 2009 3:04 PM
U.S. Accused Of Killing 39 In Sudan Strike
Posted by Dan Raviv | Comments 6
(AP / CBS)
A government minister in Sudan is accusing the United States Air Force of
killing dozens of people in that north African country this past January – but
the semi-official American version of the story is very different.
CBS News national security correspondent David Martin has been told that
Israeli aircraft carried out the attack. Israeli intelligence is said to have
discovered that weapons were being trucked through Sudan, heading north toward
Egypt, whereupon they would cross the Sinai Desert and be smuggled into
Hamas-held territory in Gaza.
In January, the U.S. signed an agreement with Israel that calls for an
international effort to stop arms smuggling into Gaza. Hamas was showering
rockets on Israeli towns, and Israel had responded by invading Gaza. More than
1,000 Palestinians were reportedly killed in the December-January war, and 13
Israelis lost their lives.
In the airstrike in Sudan – said to have been "in a desert area northwest of
Port Sudan city, near Mount al-Sha’anoon," according to SudanTribune.com – 39
people riding in 17 trucks were reportedly killed.
The first government official in Sudan to talk about it was the state minister
for highways, Mabrouk Mubarak Saleem, who said: "A major power bombed small
trucks carrying arms – burning all of them. It killed Sudanese, Eritreans, and
Ethiopians and injured others."
According to SudanTribune.com, the airstrike was an "embarrassment" to Sudan’s
government, and it discussed the matter with Egypt’s government – allied with
the U.S. on most issues – "to gather more information to formulate a response."
The Web site added: "American and Israeli diplomats said the [January]
agreement includes intelligence coordination to prevent arms from Iran from
entering Gaza, maritime efforts to identify ships carrying weaponry, and the
sharing of U.S. and European technologies to discover and prevent the use of
weapons-smuggling tunnels."
If Israeli airplanes carried out the attack in Sudan, it would suggest that
there is a shadow war against Hamas and its weapons sources that is wider than
the Israeli or U.S. government has revealed.
Dan Raviv is a CBS News correspondent in Washington.