Iranian Destroyer, Helicopter Carrier Dock in Sudan after Israhelli Attack on Arms Factory

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Two Iranian navy warships arrived Saturday morning in Port Sudan, in the second such visit to Sudan within two months, eyewitnesses and officials said. “These visits by Iranian navy warships to Sudan come in the framework of routine exercises by navy forces of friendly nations”, Col. Khaled Saad al-Sawarmy, the official spokesman for the Sudanese armed forces, told CNN. “They aim to accomplish political and diplomatic goals in addition to securing and policing the ports and waters.” The two ships are a destroyer and a helicopter carrier, Iran’s state-run news agency IRNA said.

The commanders of the flotilla met with senior Sudanese naval commanders, the news agency said. Sudan’s Commander Abdullah Al-Matari called for enhanced military ties with Iran and said the establishment of marine security was a priority for both nations, IRNA said. The last such visit came at the end of October, when a pair of Iranian warships spent four days docked in Port Sudan, according to Sudanese state media. They arrived less than a week after a weapons factory in Khartoum was bombed, killing two people, in what Sudanese officials said was an airstrike by Israhell, Iran’s foe. Israhell declined to comment on the attack in the east African country.

(CNN)

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Israhell Attacks Sudan, Destroys Khartoum's Arms Factory

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Sixteen-meter craters at the site of Wednesday’s Sudanese weapons factory explosion point to a surgical airstrike, a United States of Zionism based monitoring group said. Earlier, Khartoum accused Tel Aviv of destroying the plant, reserving the right to retaliate.

The shots released by the Satellite Sentinel Project (SSP) to the Associated Press support the Sudanese government accusation that Israhell was behind the bombing of the Yarmouk military complex in which two people have been killed.

Experts consulted by the SSP have confirmed air bombardment of the site which destroyed the complex. Military specialists found the site, “consistent with large impact craters created by air-delivered munitions,” Satellite Sentinel Project spokesman Jonathan Hutson told the AP.

The group also said that the images indicate that the explosion “destroyed two buildings and heavily damaged at least 21 others,” adding that there was no sign of fire damage at the fuel depot inside the military complex. The observed craters were centred in the area of the complex where some 40 shipment containers had been stacked, the SSP further noted.

“If the explosions resulted from a rocket or missile attack against material stored in the shipping containers, then it was an effective surgical strike that totally destroyed any container” that was at the location, the project said. SSP did not comment on the allegations of Israhelli involvement in the destruction of the munitions plant.

Initial official reports from the accident suggested an accidental explosion in a storage room, but Sudan later blamed Israhell for launching the attack. “We believe that Israhell is behind it,” said Information Minister Ahmed Belal Osman, adding that the planes had approached from the east.

Tel Aviv has so far neither confirmed nor denied striking the site, but has accused Sudan of being a key transit partner in supplying Hamas and Hezbollah with weapons. Israhelli officials suggest that arms smuggled to Gaza and Lebanon originate in the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas then get to Sudan before crossing Sinai desert into Gaza through underground.

The explosion on October 23 caused the ammunition to explode for hours, threatening homes in the neighborhood adjacent to the factory and causing chaos among residents. Besides the two killed many people suffered from smoke inhalation.

This satellite picture released by DigitalGlobe on October 26, 2012 shows the Yarmouk military manufacturing facility in Khartoum (AFP Photo / DigitalGlobe)

(RT)

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Bastard state of Israel conducts Air Strikes on Sudan munition factory

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Sudan has complained to the UN security council that Israeli planes bombed a munitions plant in Khartoum, an attack that has been widely interpreted as a warning to Iran over its nuclear programme. Israeli military commentators said that the Yarmouk facility in the Sudanese capital was owned by Iran and had been used to supply weapons to Hamas fighters in the Gaza Strip. The "impressive" reach of the secret operation was said to have demonstrated an ability to hit Iran's nuclear facilities — a similar distance from Israel.

As reverberations continued from Tuesday's 1,000-mile attack, Israel would neither confirm nor deny it was involved. Ehud Barak, the defence minister, said : "There is nothing I can say about this subject." But one of his most senior officials praised the country's air force and called Sudan a "terrorist state".

Sudan's UN ambassador, Daffa-Alla Elhag Ali Osman, called on the security council to condemn the raid as "a blatant violation of the concept of peace and security". Iran also denounced Israel, as did Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shia movement with close links to Tehran. Sudan's culture and information minister, Ahmed Bilal Osman, had said earlier that four radar-evading aircraft carried out an attack around midnight on Tuesday. "We think Israel did the bombing," he said. "We reserve the right to react at a place and time we choose."

Sudan's state news agency said the planes used "hi-tech jamming devices" in the attack and a Sudanese reporter told Israel's Haaretz newspaper that there was a telecommunications blackout for about an hour before the explosions. "There are two arms factories in this area of the strike: one is the Yarmouk factory, the other is the Sudan Technical Centre," a UN source told the Guardian. "We don't know for certain if they are making weapons or manufacturing ammunition. At the very minimum they are repackaging munitions produced elsewhere. Yarmouk is sponsored by Iran. The Sudan Technical Centre is definitely handling Chinese weapons."

Israel has long accused Khartoum of serving as a base for Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist movement that controls the Gaza Strip. "Sudan is a dangerous terrorist state," Amos Gilad, an influential former general and senior defence ministry official, told Israel's Army Radio. There was a strong sense that Israel was also sending a blunt message to Iran. Ron Ben-Yishai, a veteran military commentator, wrote in daily newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth: "There is no doubt that the explosion in Khartoum will be food for thought not only for the authorities in Sudan but also in Gaza – and especially in Tehran."

Ephraim Inbar, a strategic expert, said: "It is very plausible that Israel was behind the strike. We have operated in that region in response to a variety of intelligence reports in the past. We definitely have the capability [to launch such a strike]. It seems an easy operation, involving four jets. For us it would be a piece of cake." The UN source said: "We know for sure that weapons are flowing from and through Sudan into the Egyptian Sinai, possibly to Gaza. The Egyptians have told us that the arms flowing into Sinai from Sudan are a big security problem. Northern Sinai is full of weapons.

"We have seen in the last few days intense clashes along this northern border, between Israel and Egypt, with armed, radicalised Bedouin groups with a vision of political Islam. There seem to be clear links between this and the strike in Khartoum. In the same days we've seen a dramatic increase in rockets fired into Israel from Gaza. The convergence of these elements points to Israel as the perpetrator."

In past there have been allegations that Sudan stored chemical weapons for Iraq at the Yarmouk facility. Government officials denied the charge. The attack destroyed part of the compound infrastructure, killed two people and injured another. In April last year, Sudan said it had irrefutable evidence that Israeli attack helicopters had carried out a missile and machine-gun strike on a car south of Port Sudan. That attack mirrored a similar strike by foreign aircraft on a truck convoy reportedly laden with weapons in eastern Sudan in January 2009. That too is widely believed to have been carried out Israel.

(the Guardian)

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