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Thursday, June 17, 2010     FOR YOUR EYES ONLY

Al Qaida may have helped Sudanese killers
of U.S. official escape

CAIRO — Four Sudanese sentenced to death for the killing of a U.S. aid official escaped a Khartoum prison on June 10.

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Interpol has issued a security alert based on the assessment that the killers of the U.S. official might have fled Sudan. The four Sudanese were convicted of killing John Granville, an official for the U.S. Agency for International Development, in 2008.

Officials said Al Qaida has emerged as a threat to the Western diplomatic community in Sudan. They said the four fugitives were believed to have received help in their escape.


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The officials said the fugitives broke out of Kubar prison and then killed a police officer in a subsequent gun battle southwest of Omdurman.

"Officers followed and stopped the car the men had been traveling in and arrested the driver, however the four fugitives managed to escape on foot," the international police agency, Interpol, said.

"The escape of these dangerous convicted murderers who showed no hesitation in firing upon police, leaving one officer dead and another injured, is a significant threat to the safety and security of citizens, and Sudan should be commended for their swift actions in alerting the global law enforcement community and the wider public," Interpol executive director Jean-Michel Louboutin said on June 12.

In another development, two Sudanese identified as aligned with the regime of President Omar Bashir have surrendered to the International Criminal Court. In August 2009, the two, Abdullah Banda Abakaer Nourain and Saleh Mohammed Jerbo Jamus, were indicted on charges of helping direct attacks on the African Union peacekeeping force in Darfour.



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