Egyptian army shelled arms-laden vehicles on borders with Sudan: report
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March 13, 2011 (CAIRO) – The Egyptian army has shelled seven vehicles
laden with arms and ammunition on the borders with Sudan, as reported
by an Egyptian satellite broadcaster.
The presenter of the “first edition” program broadcast on Sunday by
the privately-owned Egyptian satellite TV Dream said that the Egyptian
army had used all methods to destroy seven vehicles containing large
amounts of arms and ammunition on the border areas with Sudan.
The report did not say when the bombing took place.
According to the presenter Ahmad Al-Maslamani, the seven vehicles were
in Egypt’s side of the borders when spotted by the country’s
border-control guards. The presenter said that the details of this
operation would be released soon.
The reported incident brings back to memory an airstrike that occurred
in January 2009 in a desert area near the Mount Al-Sha’anoon in
Northwest of Port Sudan city in eastern Sudan when Israeli warplanes
bombed a convoy believed to be smuggling arms to Hamas movement in
Gaza strip.
The attack left an unknown number of casualties though some figures
put the death toll at 29 people.
A US diplomatic cable leaked this year by the whistle-blowing website
Wikileaks revealed that the Sudanese government had at first suspected
it was US warplanes that conducted the airstrike.
But Sudanese officials including President Al-Bashir later
acknowledged that it was Israeli warplanes that carried out the
attack.
Egypt along with the US and Israel have in recent years stepped up
efforts to prevent arms from reaching Gaza strip.
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