[Ha'aretz] Amos Harel, Barak Ravid and Yoav Stern - Alluding to foreign media reports of an Israel Air Force strike in Sudan in January, Prime Minister Olmert said Thursday, "We operate everywhere we can hit terrorist infrastructure - in nearby places, in places further away, anywhere we can strike them in a way that increases deterrence." Israeli officials declined to confirm or deny Israel's involvement in the air strike in Sudan. Any Israeli decision to attack such a distant target would likely have been based on the belief that Iran could deliver arms into Gaza, possibly including 70-km.-range Fajr rockets which could strike Tel Aviv.
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