Darfur people prevent Norway’s minister plane from landing

Feb 14, 2006 (AL-FASHER) — A group of locals from Al-Fashir town, capital of Northern Darfur State, staged a sit-in at the runway of Al-Fashir International Airport this morning.

The group prevented the aircraft carrying the Norwegian deputy defence minister from landing at the airport as an expression of the state’s people’s rejection of the recent insults made by the Norwegian papers to the Prophet Muhammad.

The official SUNA learnt that the sit-in staged at the al-Fashir Airport came after news leaked among the citizens that the Norwegian deputy minister of defence was to visit Al-Fashir on a mission concerned with the AU working in Darfur.

This led the citizens to head for the airport early where they spread along the main runway as they recited the Koran and made a supplication to Allah to save Islam and Muslims in all corners of the world.

(ST)