Sudan arrests two suspects in the slaying of US diplomat
February 9, 2008 (KHARTOUM) — The Sudanese authorities announced today that they have arrested two suspects in the killing of a USAID officer in Khartoum last month.
However their names were not released.
Granville was shot and killed along with his driver on New Years by gunmen in a passing car who cut him off as he was being driven home in Sudan’s capital.
The US official was being driven home at about 4 a.m. when another vehicle cut off his car and opened fire before fleeing the scene, the Sudanese Interior Ministry said.
John Granville, 33, was an official working for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in Sudan. He was working to implement a 2005 peace agreement between Sudan’s north and south
that ended more than two decades of civil war, USAID said.
The FBI sent a team to assist in the investigations.
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Lang Mijak DengChol.
Sudan arrests two suspects in the slaying of US diplomat
My condolences to the family and relatives and entire US for having missed this patriotic and courageous citizen like Granville, who left his country to come serve all the marginalized Sudanese in Sudan. God will rest his innocent soul in heaven.
He was indeed a hero to us, especially Southerners and other marginalized Sudanese. USAID, was his mission.