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Strike on Sudan Arms Factory Points to Iran Threat to Israel
(Washington Times) Ashish Kumar Sen - Sudanese officials have accused Israel of bombing the Yarmouk military complex, a Khartoum weapons factory, on Oct. 24. The target may have been 40 shipping containers that satellite images show were stacked at the site days before the explosion. A former U.S. official said Israel has bombed targets inside Sudan at least six times in the past two years, including Sudanese ships as well as smuggling routes. "They have done it without a lot of public outcry, without any accounting," he said. "Israel has really done this very much under the radar." Andrew Natsios, a former U.S. special envoy to Sudan, said, "Iran's closest ally is not Syria or Russia, but Sudan," noting an enduring alliance based on a shared Islamist ideology. "They signed a secret agreement between the intelligence services of both countries to cooperate, there are Iranian munition factories around Khartoum, and they signed a treaty many years ago to allow unlimited access of the Iranian navy to Port Sudan."