US Embassy in Sudan Says Resumes Normal Operations

KHARTOUM, Nov 16 (Reuters) – The U.S. embassy in Khartoum reopened on Sunday after suspending normal operations last week because of what it had said was a threat to U.S. interests in the Sudanese capital, an embassy statement said.

The suspension of normal operations followed the November 9 suicide bombing in Saudi Arabia, across the Red Sea from Sudan, which killed at least 18 people, mainly Arabs.

Saudi officials said they suspected the al Qaeda network of Osama bin Laden, who lived in Sudan between 1991 and 1996, as being behind the suicide attack in Riyadh.

The United States said on Friday it had indications of a threat to U.S. and other Western citizens in Sudan, possibly including bombings, kidnappings and suicide attacks.

Washington lists Sudan as a “state sponsor of terrorism.”