Sudan denies preparations to setup US military base in eastern town
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March 22, 2011 (KHARTOUM) – A Sudanese official has dismissed as
“vicious rumors” media reports on preparations by the United States to
setup a military base in Ageeg, a minor port town in eastern Sudan in
an effort to thwart arms-smuggling operations across the country’s
porous eastern borders.
Eastern Sudan is cited by as a major route for smuggling arms into
Gaza strip which is under siege by Israel. This month it was reported
that the Egyptian army destroyed seven vehicles carrying arms smuggled
through eastern Sudan. In January 2009, Israel conducted an airstrike
in eastern Sudan that destroyed a convoy that was believed to be
carrying arms to Gaza, killing at least 20 people.
The Sudan Media Center, a website closely linked to the country’s
intelligence circles, quoted Ali Saeed Hamid Sukar the mayor of Ageeg
locality, a minor port town located to the south of Sudan’s eastern
Red Sea state, as saying that his locality was “devoid of any
preparations to setup an American military base.”
According to SMC, the report on preparations to build a US military
base was contained in Wednesday’s edition of the London-based
newspaper which reported that activists in eastern Sudan complained to
local authorities against the construction of military bases in the
area at a time when they were planning to turn the little port town of
Ageed into a major sea port.
But according to Ageeg mayor, the construction work being observed in
Ageeg was an attempt to “renovate” barracks of the Sudanese maritime
forces in the area.
The Sudanese official said that such reports were “merely vicious
rumors propagated by opposition groups in a desperate attempt to
torpedo stability in the [Red Sea] state.”
The US along with Israel and Egypt are trying to prevent arms from
reaching Gaza strip which is controlled by Hamas Islamic movement.
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