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Khartoum (AFP) May 25, 2009 The air raid by foreign aircraft on a convoy of vehicles in eastern Sudan in January killed 119 people, the country's defence ministry told parliament, the official Suna agency reported Monday. The convoy had been transporting illegal immigrants to Egypt, General Abdul-Rahim Mohamed Hussein told a parliamentary committee investigating the attack. Time Magazine has reported that the convoy was carrying rockets and Iranian explosives bound for the Gaza Strip during Israel's offensive against Hamas militants in the Palestinian territory. Citing two senior Israeli security officials, the magazine said Israeli fighter-bombers had carried out the attack. Hussein said that of about a thousand people in the convoy, 119 were killed: 56 smugglers and 63 would be immigrants, from Ethiopia, Somalia and other countries. It is the first time that the defence ministry has announced a death toll for the raids. The Israeli daily Yediot Aharonot said the Israeli navy had carried out operations in Sudan against the smuggling of arms bound for Islamic militant movement Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip. Israeli has made no official comment on the allegations. Share This Article With Planet Earth
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War on Tamil Tigers 'ended': Sri Lankan defence secretaryColombo (AFP) May 18, 2009 Sri Lanka's war against Tamil Tiger rebels has "ended successfully," the island's defence secretary, Gotabhaya Rajapakse, told the island's president Monday in a nationally televised ceremony. "We have successfully ended the war," he told President Mahinda Rajapakse, who is his brother and commander-in-chief of the Sri Lankan armed forces. Sri Lankan military commanders also lined up and ... read more |
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