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Robert Dreyfuss | Israel Bombed Sudan
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Israel's (outgoing) prime minister, Ehud Olmert, has pretty much confirmed the news -- first reported by CBS yesterday -- that Israel bombed a convoy of arms dealers in Sudan in January to destroy a reported shipment of weapons from Iran to Hamas."Israel hits every place it can in order to stop terror, near and far," said Olmert. An analysis from Amos Harel in Haaretz says that Israel's concern was that Iran might be sending advanced missiles to Hamas: A reasonable assumption would be that Iran sought to provide Hamas with Fajr missiles, whose deployment in Gaza would constitute what the IDF terms as "a weapon ...
In bombing Sudan, Israel sends message to Iran
Israpundit —
By Ted Belman
It was just reported today that in January, just after Israel and the US signed the MOU on preventing arms smuggling, Israel attacked a convoy carrying arms to Gaza. The convoy was hit in Sudan some 1400 km away. IAF Sudan strike / Olmert: Israel will target threats near and far
ANALYSIS
By Amos Harel, Haaretz Correspondent
As the final curtain comes down on the Olmert government, CBS reported a sensational air force bombing of an Iranian weapons convoy in Sudan. If ...
US 'Bombed Convoy In Sudan': Sudan Official
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
Varying reports have emerged this week, stemming originally from statements by Sudan's highways minister Mabrouk Mubarak Saleem, that a convoy was bombed back in January in northern Sudan. Sudan claims the bombing -- which reportedly resulted in 39 deaths -- was carried out by the US, but the US side of the story claims the jets were actually Israeli, according to CBS. From CBS:
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 ...
US 'Bombed Convoy In Sudan': Sudan Official
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
Varying reports have emerged this week, stemming originally from statements by Sudan's highways minister Mabrouk Mubarak Saleem, that a convoy was bombed back in January in northern Sudan. Sudan claims the bombing -- which reportedly resulted in 39 deaths -- was carried out by the US, but the US side of the story claims the jets were actually Israeli, according to CBS. From CBS:
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 ...
Israel Bombs Sudan
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
It's a message to Iran. Amos Harel:
What does Iran learn from all this? That Israel possesses exceptional intelligence, a willingness to take great risk, and an ability to act successfully against targets far from Israel's borders. Yet Iran knew all this after the previous strikes. If the reports are true, the bombing in Sudan was an important message of deterrence from Israel to Iran, yet the road from Sudan to the destruction of Iran's nuclear program is a long one.
As such, a quartet of F-15 fighter jets is insufficient. A large number of planes taking part in wave after wave of bombing sorties against ...
Report: Israel Bombs Sudan
Weekly Standard Blog —
It's been more than ten years since Bill Clinton order strikes against the Al Shifa pharmaceutical plant in Sudan in response to the bombing of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. Then the United States was acting on information that tied Sudan to both al Qaeda, which was said to be using the facility to manufacture chemical weapons, and Iraq (which was believed to have provided funding and expertise to the project).
Now the Israelis are reported to have bombed a weapons convoy traveling from Sudan toward the Egyptian border with Gaza. The attack happened in January, and the weapons allegedly originated in Iran. But ...
