Darfur rebels vow more attacks on Sudan oil fields

October 25, 2007 (KHARTOUM) — Darfur rebels vowed on Thursday to launch more assaults on oil installations across Sudan until Khartoum gave in to a string of demands.

“This is only the beginning,” said Ahmed Tugud, the chief negotiator of the Justice and Equality Movement. “We will carry out attacks across Sudan and our main target will be oil fields.”

JEM said it attacked Sudan’s Defra oil field on Tuesday, killing 20 government soldiers and taking two foreign hostages, one Canadian, the other Iraqi. The government denied any such attack.

(Reuters)