Sudan to impose news blackout on escape of USAID employee killers: report
June 30, 2010 (KHARTOUM) — The Sudanese authorities intends to impose a publication ban on anything related to the escape of four men convicted of carrying out the 2008 killing of an employee from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and his Sudanese driver.
This is the first time in the history of the Sudan that a prisoner sentenced to death succeeds in making his way out of Kober which is considered a maximum security prison where political figures are normally held when detained.
The U.S. called on Sudan to investigate how the inmates managed to make their way out of the prison.
Many observers in Sudan have questioned the official story on their escape with some going as far as accusing government involvement in the plot.
Ten days later media reported that one of the escapees have been recaptured though there was no official statement confirming the report.
The Interpol, at the request of Sudan, raised an international security alert for four men.
Today the independent Al-Sahafa newspaper said that a news blackout will be announced shortly so as not to compromise the ongoing investigation. It further said that Abdel Raouf Abu Zaid Mohamed who was reportedly arrested again went on food strike and was transferred to hospital as a result.
John Granville and his Sudanese driver Abdel-Rahman Abbas Rahma were shot dead on 2008 New Years Eve by men believed to be belonging to an Islamic militant group Ansar al-Tawhid which claimed responsibility for the killing.
Granville was the first American to be killed in Sudan since 1973, when two diplomats were slain by Palestinian militants.
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Sudan to impose news blackout on escape of USAID employee killers: report
Dear all,
its really pathetic to see america’s own killed and the perpetrator were left to go free. If i may ask, is america now powerless? can it act and do something on this government aided killers? I will only wish george W bush is still the president and anybody who jokes around is traced, captured and punished accordingly.
America, please do some about these, otherwise your title as the super power is gonna be taken by another strong nations. Where are your organized CIA, cant they do this job and bring the perpetrators to justice. From this article its like the sudan government is in collaboration with the killers if not why should they impose a media blackout on any publication about the killers escape. Do something or stop sending your officials to other countries to die like less important or ordinary men.
We here in the south have always and will always help you should you need any help to deal with this radicals, and am warning them that should they happen to do anything here, its only God who knows what we are capable of doing as revenge, after all we are soon breaking out from them and become independent.