Sudan captures men who helped USAID employee killers escape
July 25, 2010 (KHARTOUM) — The Sudanese authorities managed to arrest four men who allegedly assisted the killers of an employee from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) escape prison last month.
A Sudanese police officer said that the house where the men were hiding was raided and found weapons, ammunitions and CD’s containing unspecified plans and maps.
Last June, Mohamed Makawi Ibrahim Mohamed, Abdel Basit al-Hajj Hassan, Mohamed Osman Yusuf and Abdel Raouf Abu Zaid Mohamed who were sentenced to death, managed to escape Kober’s maximum security prison through sewerage pipes in the Sudanese capital.
The details surrounding their escape remain murky and many observers in Sudan 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, Abdel Raouf Abu Zaid Mohamed, has been recaptured though there was no official statement confirming the report.
Sudan asked the INTERPOL to issued a red notice for the fugitives across law enforcement agencies worldwide.
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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Kideopo Boy
Sudan captures men who helped USAID employee killers escape
The Sudanese authorities managed to arrest four men who allegedly assisted the killers of an employee from the U.S. Agency International Development (USAID) escape prison last month. This is unbelievable statement. How did the four men make their way from Khartoum to Darfur? Were these four men civilians or policemen, Security personnel of Omer Bashir janjaweed militias? Sudan must stop lying to the world for political propaganda. The innocent Darfurians will be the targets of NCP regime for this faults escape like what resulted to the killing of the news paper Editor.
Sudan must declare to the International community and the world at large that some of its foundamentalist group assisted in releasing the four criminals and that’s all.
DASODIKO
Sudan captures men who helped USAID employee killers escape
Its very strange story to link Darfur with the killers of US diplomat Granfield. Those who killed the diplomat are from North Sudan from well known families, so how come that they are helped by people and fled to Darfur? Either these guys belong to Al-Qaida group from Arab countries brought to fight in Darfur or otherwise they tried to lie and fell short. The logic tells me that a person from North Sudan will not geopardice to go up to Darfur to hide although the power is in the hands of Islamist in North Sudan and there are more secured palces for hiding in Northern Sudan.Yes for Sudanese normal peole whom NCP use to cheat the story is acceptable; otheriwse;its not acceplatble story for people our of Sudan. Haaaaa, funny.