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To: Tomas who wrote (1324)	9/21/1999 8:06:00 AM
From: Tomas	Respond to of 2742

Sudan says blown up pipeline repaired (Khartoum, Reuters) KHARTOUM, Sept 21 (Reuters) - Sudan's Energy Minister Awad Ahmed al-Jaz said on Tuesday an oil export pipeline damaged in an explosion claimed by rebels had been repaired. He told a demonstration in Khartoum by students protesting against the blast that repairs had been completed on Tuesday. Sudanese official media reported earlier that an explosion caused limited damage to the 1,610-km (988-mile) pipeline near Wagoa about 14 km east of Atbara, northeast of Khartoum. State television said Jaz and Interior Minister Abdel Rahim Mohammad Hussein visited the site of the explosion on Monday. It showed earthmovers shifting sand on to the exposed pipeline and pools of crude lying nearby.

To: Tomas who wrote (1324)	9/21/1999 8:14:00 AM
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Sudanese opposition says it blew up pipeline - AFP, Sept.21 by Samar el-Gamal CAIRO, Sept 21 (AFP) - The Sudanese opposition on Tuesday said it blew up a section of a new oil pipeline in government-controlled northern Sudan, only three weeks after Khartoum made its first oil export. Abdel Rahman al-Said, the spokesman for the military command of the opposition umbrella group, the National Democratic Alliance, said the attack showed the hollowness of the government's boast that it could protect the pipeline. "We prepared a special force to attack the pipeline," Said told AFP. Government officials had dismissed threats by the armed opposition to blow up the 1,600 kilometer (1,000 mile) pipeline, noting that it is underground and "fully secured". Sudan's energy and mining ministry secretary general, Hassan Mohamed Ali al-Tom, was quoted in Khartoum on Monday as saying that a section of the pipeline near the town of Atbara was hit by sabotage on Sunday night. But he said the attack caused "limited damage at the site," which is about 350 kilometers (210 miles) north of the Sudanese capital Khartoum, on the last stretch to the Red Sea terminal near Port Sudan. Repairs to replace a 24-meter section of the pipeline would be completed in time for a tanker to load a shipment of oil at Beshair Terminal on Wednesday, he said. After President Omar al-Beshir led an August 30 ceremony to inaugurate Sudan's first oil exports, a tanker with 600,000 barrels of crude set sail for Singapore from Beshair. The one-billion dollar pipeline, inaugurated in May, begins in the Higleig oilfields in southern Kordofan, passing through Khartoum, before reaching the Red Sea. Umma Party spokesman Ahmed Hassan told AFP meanwhile that "exports of oil are vulnerable and can be protected only by a political agreement among all parties." Libya and Egypt have undertaken efforts to organize talks aimed at ending the 16-year civil war, with the opposition and the government agreeing in principle to the peace plan. The war between the Moslem, Arabised north and the mainly Christian and animist south has raged since 1983. In 1995, the northern opposition also took up arms to overthrow the Khartoum government. In Khartoum, Sudanese security sources were quoted as saying that an insignia from the Liberation Army, the military arm of the Umma Party, which is an NDA member, was found at the scene. But Sudan's Akhbar Al-Yom daily on Tuesday quoted Umma chief Sadek al-Mahdi, a former prime minister, as denying by telephone from Cairo that his party had been involved in the explosion. In Khartoum, the authorities said they had mounted a search for the attackers. The authorities arrived on the scene three hours after the 11:00 p.m. (2100 GMT) explosion on Sunday in an uninhabited area between Tayat and Hodi villages and put out the resulting fire. State-run television Monday night ran footage of a four-meter crater and a crane apparently trying to remove the ripped pipe. Energy and Mining Minister Awad Ahmed al-Jaz, who visited the scene on Monday, denounced the blast as "a futile attempt by enemies of the Sudanese people to block oil exports."