Sudan denies targeting SRF chairman for assassination ArticleComments (7) EmailPrintSave
June 9, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – The director of Sudan’s National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) Mohamed Atta al-Moula Abbas denied reports that Sudanese officers made an attempt on the life of a rebel leader. SRF leader Malik Agar (Reuters) According to the reports, Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF) chairman Malik Agar survived an assassination attempt in Uganda’s capital killing one of his bodyguards and several of the assailants. SRF has not commented on these reports. In his response to a question on the alleged incident, Abbas denied Agar presence in Uganda and said that he has been in Albonj in South Sudan near the borders of the Blue Nile state for some time. The NISS director claimed that the SRF held a meeting recently but that Agar did not attend and commissioned Darfur rebel leader Minni Minnawi to head the meeting instead of Jibril Ibrahim who was at the eastern mountains in north Darfur. He also denied their use of assassination outside the battlefield and said that it is the SRF that is adopting these methods and noted the recent killing of the Justice and Equality Movement/Bashar (JEM-Bashar) faction leaders near the Chadian borders by the mainstream JEM group. (ST) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "South Sudan Info - The Kob" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/SouthSudanKob/CAJb14opK%2BMQwxpNwBANDmUKmLkCc07H5Z3cdSnExgg2-E5rKgw%40mail.gmail.com?hl=en-US. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
