Sudan Accuses Israel Of Attack; Khartoum 'Reserves The Right To React'

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan's Foreign Minister Ali Karti on Wednesday accused Israel of carrying out an attack on Tuesday near Port Sudan that killed two people and said Khartoum reserved the right to react to the aggression.

"This is absolutely an Israeli attack," he told reporters.

He said Israel undertook the attack in order scupper Sudan's chances of being removed from a U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism.

One of the two people killed in the strike was a Sudanese citizen who had no ties to Islamists or the government, he said.

Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor declined to comment on the accusation.

Sudanese officials have offered different versions on how the strike was carried out. Police say a missile struck the car near the port city, but a state government official blamed a bombing by a foreign aircraft that flew in from the Red Sea.

Sudanese officials in 2009 said unknown aircraft had killed scores in a strike on a convoy of suspected arms smugglers on a remote road in the east, which some reports said may have been carried out by Israel to stop weapons bound for Gaza.

Sudan is on a U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism, but Washington this year initiated the process to remove it from that list after a peaceful January referendum in which the country's south voted to secede.

(Reporting by Deepa Babington and Khaled Abdelaziz; Editing by Matthew Jones)
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Comments

[TaxedCitizen]

10:22 AM on 04/08/2011

For the zio apologists, note this story it not on the front page OR on the world page.

Unless I missed the illegal acts/war crimes page I must assume its been buried.

See, AOL is your friend after all.

[Theatrixnyc]

11:48 AM on 04/08/2011

That would make an excellent page....I think I'll request it. Let's start a petition to have it added!!

[SaneUSA]

04:56 PM on 04/08/2011

Zio what zio is zio it zio that zio makes zio you zio people zio so zio paranoid?

[TaxedCitizen]

05:21 PM on 04/08/2011

NO paranoia, just loyalty to my country.

[Relpo Miraculous]

02:32 AM on 04/08/2011

Palestinian security officials said the target in an alleged Israeli airstrike in Sudan was Abdul-Latif Ashkar, who took over the role of weapons gathering formerly carried out by Hamas official Mahmoud Mabhouh, who was assassinated in Dubai last year. Ashkar was a founder of Hamas’ “aid and logistics department,” which coordinated weapons smuggling to Gaza.

(Maan News-PA)

[Shingo]

02:48 AM on 04/08/2011

>> Palestinia­n security officials said the target in an alleged Israeli airstrike in Sudan was Abdul-Lati­f Ashkar

"Hamas Deputy Politburo Chief Moussa Abu Marzouq, however, told the Jerusalem-based daily Al-Quds Al-Arabi newspaper that the two "were not Palestinian and had no connection to Hamas.""

[Shingo]

02:06 AM on 04/08/2011

Excellent contribution UC. You're clearly givign it all to maintain the Zionist stereotype. A wonderful ambassador for Zionism.

[Relpo Miraculous]

02:40 AM on 04/08/2011

Who cares what you think? Not me.

Gaza is looking to get annihilated. How can they be so brazen, and how can you be so supportive?

[theuniversalcollective]

02:40 AM on 04/08/2011

Sit and spin Shingo. Sit. And. Spin.

[Taxim]

02:40 AM on 04/08/2011

An excellent demonstration of Israeli values mixed with suburban American education. You just can't find dumber.

[theuniversalcollective]

02:48 AM on 04/08/2011

go suck a tailpipe

[Anybodyseenthepopos]

02:56 AM on 04/08/2011

I'm amazed with your limited intellect you actually understood a real piece of art! Mazal Tov!

[dbsherri]

01:23 AM on 04/08/2011

The United States can defend itself by attacking countries that pose a threat. In fact, they seem to do it WITHOUT provocation (the attack on a soverign country after 9/11 before finding the facts proves that point). But Israel is expected to “show restraint” amidst bombings killing of innocent men, woman and children day in and day out. I know. I have relatives living in the region and they are far from unfair or fanatical.

Any retaliation makes a headline in every paper in every country. One must read three, even four paragraphs down before understanding whatever action was taken was in response to Israeli children being killed, or a bombing in shopping center, or whatever other horror that has rained down on them.

While some people argue that that Israel was someone else’s land before 1947 and should be given back, my only question to them is this: would you be willing to give back the United States to the Native Americans? That’s not suppose to be a ridiculous question. Almost every scrap of land on the planet "belonged" to someone else before it’s current “owners.” That’s what wars are usually about. Ownership. Control. Power. Might, not right. And it has been a bloody battle back and forth ever since. Everywhere.

That aside, it isn't even true. Another arguement for another time. Besides, Arabs have over 100 countries. The Jews? One. The size of Rhode Island. It's the location that makes it valuable.

[Shingo]

02:13 AM on 04/08/2011

>> Any retaliatio­n makes a headline in every paper in every country.

The country (and the rest of the world( has become cynical at the way in which Israel bombs Gaza with impunity (while maintaining an inhumane and illegal blockade) but running around like chicken little when Gaza fights back.

Israel blew it when they bared their fangs before the world in Lebanon and they blew it in Gaza 2008. Israel doesn't get to play victim anymore.

And as for holding up the US as some kind of example, that doesn't wash wither. America is joined at the hip with Israel and your crimes are our crimes. And most sane people here are critical of the crimes America commits on its own behalf.

>> While some people argue that that Israel was someone else’s land before 1947 and should be given back, my only question to them is this: would you be willing to give back the United States to the Native Americans?

Every time I hear thsi lame argument, I have this to say. The 19th century has been and gone. The world decided that colonalism, genoce and ethnic cleasing were bad ideas. The US has admitted it commit crimes against humaniry and that this chapter is a shameful one.

Just becasue Israel missed out on the 19th century does not mean it gets to have one so it cna play catchup.

[tramagrama]

06:29 PM on 04/08/2011

Well said Shingo: chapeau!

[Shingo]

02:14 AM on 04/08/2011

>> Almost every scrap of land on the planet "belonged" to someone else before it’s current “owners.”

In which case, you might want to remind your comrades every time they insist the land only ever belonged to the Jews.

>> Besides, Arabs have over 100 countries. The Jews? One.

Another lame argument. The fact that Bill Gates has 50 billion doesn't give me the right to steal 1 billion from him.

[dbsherri]

05:11 PM on 04/08/2011

Lame, eh? THE JEWS AREN'T "STEALING' ANYTHING FROM ANYONE. That land DID NOT "belong" to the Arabs. The Bill Gates "argument" is beyond stupid. He worked for that money and earned it. That land was BARREN before the Jews figured out a way to grow vegetables, fruit, trees, etc. When the "Palestinians" (sounds old...isn't) saw it was fruitful and now, boo hoo, they want it back.

Everytime Israel defends itself against terrorism, which they have a right to do (as do we), the headlines are about how horrible they are...barely a word about how they were defending themselves, not provoking. Grant it, the continued building should stop....for now. But you are clearly not interested in truth. Propaganda rules, eh?

[dbsherri]

05:14 PM on 04/08/2011

read the link to the article on the school bus attack. Read. Learn

[JoshInPgh]

01:10 AM on 04/08/2011

16 hours gone, and STILL no mention on the HuffPost site, let alone the Middle East section, about yesterday's vicious attack on a SCHOOLBUS! Yet Ms. Arianna and her AOL cabal want me to trust this site?

[theuniversalcollective]

02:07 AM on 04/08/2011

I've been asking that same question , off topic, in the main all day, it continually gets deleted. No press for righteousness, just for terrorism. There's more clicks in it I guess.

[Shingo]

02:18 AM on 04/08/2011

>> 16 hours gone, and STILL no mention on the HuffPost site, let alone the Middle East section, about yesterday'­s vicious attack on a SCHOOLBUS!

Aer you that desperate to be able to claim victimhood? It's been reported hours ago.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20110408/ml-israel-palestinians/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/08/israel-gaza-school-bus-hamas_n_846486.html

[Gerontion]

12:50 AM on 04/08/2011

this incessant inane hasbaritic babble about who started it and who's going to finish it is tedious in the extreme. It is certainly not in the interest of Gazans to provoke a further massive blitzkrieg from the military might of the US armed Israelis. They would be better off trying to get some benefit for themselves from the exploitation of their off shore gas fields, which seems to be going on under the cover of the blockade. Whenever an outbreak of peace threatens Israel thwarts it. It is in its interest to keep the pot boiling so it can plausibly justify continuing the blockade.

[SaneUSA]

11:03 PM on 04/07/2011

Yawn.

[Phantom123]

11:03 PM on 04/07/2011

Very sad . Saint Mammouth. You remind me Nazi propoganda...

[Phantom123]

10:45 PM on 04/07/2011

Hamas is moving towards open armed conflict with Israel. Israel can not ignore the threat that a heavily armed Iranian proxy regime represents and must move to eliminate it.

[Shingo]

12:03 AM on 04/08/2011

>> Hamas is moving towards open armed conflict with Israel.

False. Israel started the last 2 and it will statrt this one. Israel can;t lay a hand on Iran without US help.

[Ed Baker]

11:45 AM on 04/08/2011

I'm not sure I agree with that analysis - the Iranian military isn't the best - I think Israel could take out most of their capabilities in a short time. Remember 1967.

[cliffhammond]

12:22 AM on 04/08/2011

I think everyone here knows that Israel is using acts of provocation to justify moving into the Sinai to insure the blockade of Gaza. Currently, Israel's "Operation Scorching Summer" is underway in the skis over Gaza, yet there is not one word in the US media. I did just read a headline stating that the White House "condemns attacks against southern Israel." What that means is that Israel will be moving into the Gaza. This is a classic PR campaign the part of both Israel and the U.S. to take what they want and lie to the America people while doing it.

[JoshInPgh]

01:11 AM on 04/08/2011

Umm, false.

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2011/04/latest-stupid-palarableftist-rumor.html

[cliffhammond]

01:23 AM on 04/08/2011

Whoops! There's been a name change. It's now being (unofficially) called "Operation Goldstone" purely for ironic value.

[Gonzo36]

09:40 PM on 04/07/2011

Here is another fun article from the Huffpo with no comments allowed:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20110406/ml-palestinians-journalist-abuse/

Here are a few tidbits:

"A report by the New York-based Human Rights Watch said that over the past two years, the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank has stepped up harassment of journalists investigating corruption or seen to be supporters of the rival Hamas militant group. The pressure tactics by the Western-backed government have led to more self-censorship among local reporters, the group also said."

"The abuse takes place "in the context of virtual impunity" for security officials, the report said. And while it is not necessarily ordered by Palestinian leaders, "the utter failure of the PA leadership to address the prevailing culture of impunity for such abuses suggests that they reflect government policy," HRW said."

[Shingo]

12:04 AM on 04/08/2011

Israel routinely arrests journalists.

[Aziat]

01:09 AM on 04/08/2011

What kind of a response is that?

"Oh honey don't be angry that I cheated on you, Bill cheats on his wife also".

[theuniversalcollective]

09:09 PM on 04/07/2011

Should the Arabs wish peace with the Jews, there will be peace. They don't, and have used the "Palestini­ans" as their lapdogs for the past 60 years to be the wedge which attempts to pry the country apart from the inside. Their attempts to invade and destroy it from the outside fail miserably each and every time, and the poor poor Palestinia­ns seem quite happy to continue to commit generation­al suicide in their name. The Persians see an opportunit­y to sit once again at the head of a caliphate, and can't stop but fall over themselves supplying arms and rhetoric to the jihadees and intifadist­s in hopes of inflicting as much damage to the Jewish State as they can. I say no. That just simply will not do. Should the Palestinia­ns eschew the yoke of their Arab and Persian masters and make an honest trustworth­y peace, they shall have it. If not, Israel will continue to build, and blockade, bomb, and every once in a great while, invade. As always, their choice. Tick Tock Tick Tock

[Phantom123]

09:29 PM on 04/07/2011

Very well said.

[Shingo]

09:42 PM on 04/07/2011

>> Should the Arabs wish peace with the Jews, there will be peace.

You've said this countless times and ingored the Arab Peace Initiative, sigfned by 22 Arab States that has been on offer to Israel since 2002. Israel has repeatedly rejected it.

Israel is runing out of time. The Tick Tock Tick Tock you keep hearing is Israel's clock running out.

Tick Tock Tick Tock

[JanP]

10:12 PM on 04/07/2011

Ariel Sharon said eh would liek to meed with the king of Saudi Arabia (Saudi Peace plan, not Arab Peace Plan). The King said "NO".

How sincere was it?

How much was to get godo press from the haters of israel?

[CubnKira]

10:17 PM on 04/07/2011

Abbas walked out of the direct negotiations tho both sides said that progress was being made. He is powerless to make peace, his own people would kill him as they did Sadat.

[tissa]

08:46 PM on 04/07/2011

THIS IS HOW ISRAEL TREATS PALESTINIANS:
 
http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/deutschland-uber-alles/

[SaneUSA]

08:51 PM on 04/07/2011

Finkelstein...LOL.

[Phantom123]

09:01 PM on 04/07/2011

Norman Finkelstein.......cheerleader for Hamas.
You can not believe a word this guy says.

[pomegrante]

09:07 PM on 04/07/2011

...and who can believe a word from a phantom:

illusion: somebody or something that does not exist
Synonyms: specter, phantasm, spook, shade
See full definition · Encarta World English Dictionary

[enderM]

09:37 PM on 04/07/2011

f&f

[pomegrante]

07:42 PM on 04/07/2011

New Egyptian foreign minister says Egypt will not remain 'strategic treasure' to Israel.


http://www.israel-palestinenews.org/2011/04/new-egyptian-foreign-minister-says.html

[Gonzo36]

07:52 PM on 04/07/2011

Pretty sure the new Egyptian government isnt going to turn down the 1.3 billion that the US gives them for not pissing off Israel. Sorry to disappoint :(

[Shingo]

08:43 PM on 04/07/2011

>> Pretty sure the new Egyptian government isnt going to turn down the 1.3 billion that the US gives them for not pissing off Israel.

With teh US dollar about to collapse, I doubt 1.3 billion of nothing is going to be enough to continue their humiliation.

[tallen]

08:20 PM on 04/07/2011

I really don't think the Egyptian army is going to let itself be the cannon fodder for Egyptian Islamist dreams.
The last few times it allowed itself to be used like that for a people they don't even like (palestinians), they lost 10s of thousands in the perfect sandtrap for armies called the Sinai.

But, I could be wrong. If so, Israel should keep the Sinai after the next war.

[nicholas b]

08:39 PM on 04/07/2011

I've never heard before that they "don't even like Palestinians", but I definitely know who else they in fact don't like. You can dream on about the rest - far more likely is that that worthless peace treaty will be going down into a very deep freeze if it lasts at all. Good riddance to bad rubbish.

[Shingo]

08:44 PM on 04/07/2011

>> I really don't think the Egyptian army is going to let itself be the cannon fodder for Egyptian Islamist dreams.

It won't be. Israel stopped picking fights with real military opponents after 1973. The last time Isrlae ook on Egypt, they lost 3000 fighters, and Israel no longer has the stomach for those body counts.

[Gonzo36]

07:23 PM on 04/07/2011

Found the Huffpo article regarding the bus missile today, but no commenting. I say we do it here.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20110407/ml-israel-palestinians/

Here is a quote from said article:
"Hamas issued a rare claim of responsibility for the bus attack, saying it was in response to the killing of three of its leaders earlier in the week. Usually, smaller militant factions claim responsibility."

So Hamas said they purposly targeted the bus that had only civilians in retaliation for the IDF killing 3 ADULT Hamas terrorists. Well, at least Hamas was honest ;p

[WRichardWagner]

07:53 PM on 04/07/2011

False flag.

[pomegrante]

07:56 PM on 04/07/2011

Faved WRichard. Israel is itching to have a Cast Lead II, by any means necessary.

[StCuthbert]

08:03 PM on 04/07/2011

Evidence of false flag?