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To: Tomas who wrote (1326)	9/21/1999 4:11:00 PM
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Sudan says sabotaged oil pipeline repaired (Reuters) (Releads with energy minister saying repairs complete) By Alfred Taban 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. Sudan's official media reported earlier that Monday's explosion caused limited damage to the 1,610-km (988-mile) pipeline near Wagoa, about 14 km east of Atbara, northeast of Khartoum in Nile River state. Rebel attacks have not taken place there before. State television said Jaz and Interior Minister Abdel Rahim Mohammad Hussein visited the scene on Monday following the explosion on Sunday night. It showed earthmovers shifting sand onto the exposed pipeline and pools of crude lying nearby. The opposition National Democratic Alliance (NDA) said on Tuesday its forces had blown up the newly completed pipe to deliver a message to Khartoum's Islamist government. ``We wanted to show the government that we are able to do what we want,' Lieutenant-General Abdel Rahman Said, deputy commander of NDA forces, told Reuters in Cairo. Sudan's civil war has raged since 1983, causing an estimated 1.5 million deaths and devastating large swathes of the south. ``The regime in Sudan has repeatedly said that oil was a national treasure, one that would fuel the war effort and the battle against the opposition, but we prefer for this crude to remain underground than for it to be used to finance this government and keep it in power,' Said declared. The NDA groups northern opposition parties and the main rebel Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) whose leader, John Garang, has vowed to target oil installations. The pipeline pumps crude from southern oilfields to a terminal on the Red Sea from which exports began last month. It is owned by Canada's Talisman Energy Inc (Toronto:TLM.TO - news) in partnership with the state oil companies of China, Malaysia and Sudan. UMMA PARTY BLAMED The Sudanese news agency SUNA said security authorities had found a sign at the site of the blast, on which the emblem of a group called the Umma Liberation Army was marked. The independent Al-Sahafa newspaper said the little-known group was headed by Abdel Rahman al-Mahdi, son of former Prime Minister Sadeq al-Mahdi, who leads the opposition Umma Party. Witnesses said about 5,000 mainly secondary school students demonstrated outside the energy ministry in Khartoum on Tuesday, chanting anti-NDA slogans and carrying placards. ``The Umma Party is the enemy of the nation, Sadeq al-Mahdi is an enemy,' they shouted, referring to the opposition leader who was ousted in a 1989 coup that brought in Islamist rule. Jaz told Reuters the blast would not affect exports because there was plenty of crude stored at the Port Bashair terminal. Hassen el-Tom, secretary general at the ministry, said a fourth tanker would arrive at the terminal on Wednesday to load. Industry sources in Singapore said earlier on Tuesday that the incident had delayed the shipment of a 600,000-barrel cargo bound for South Korea originally scheduled to load between September 22 and 24, the third cargo since exports began. Sudan exports some 150,000 barrels of crude per day. biz.yahoo.com