Sudan Says the U.S. Armed Darfur Rebels
/The United States helped train and arm rebels
from west Sudan who rose up against the Sudanese government last year,
Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir said in remarks published on
Thursday. "Who else than the United States is behind this ... They took
rebels to Eritrea, and set up training camps for them, spent money on
them, armed them and gave them Thuraya mobiles (telephones) to speak
between anywhere in the world," Bashir told Egypt's Al-Ahram daily when
asked about the involvement of foreign powers in Darfur. The U.S.
embassy in Khartoum declined to comment on the report. The Sudanese
government has in the past accused Eritrea of arming Darfur rebels who
launched their revolt against Khartoum in February 2003, after years of
low-level clashes between Arab nomads and non-Arab farmers over scarce
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