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To: Tomas who wrote (1330)	9/23/1999 9:15:00 PM
From: Tomas	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2742

Sudanese opposition says pipeline attack was revenge CAIRO, Sept 23 (AFP) - Sudanese opposition forces blew up a key oil export pipeline earlier this week in retaliation for attacks on their positions by government forces, the combined opposition said Thursday. The Sudanese government had failed to honour commitments it gave during Egyptian and Libyan-brokered talks on August 19 to refrain from both military operations and verbal attacks against the opposition, the National Democratic Alliance said in a statement. Instead, the government had stepped up its attacks on opposition positions from September 17 after Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir made "virulent attacks" on the NDA during public engagements the previous month. Opposition forces blew up a section of the oil export pipeline Sunday at Atbara, about 350 kilometers (210 miles) north of Khartoum. The 1,610-kilometer-long (1,000-mile-long) pipeline, stretching from Higleig in the southwest to a Red Sea export terminal, was inaugurated amid great fanfare by Beshir on August 30. The opposition said it still "trusts the leaders of the Egyptian-Libyan initiative" and their efforts to hold a national reconciliation conference for Sudan despite the government's failure to honour the commitments it gave at the August 19 meeting in Khartoum. The NDA statement was signed by Omar Nur el-Dayem, the secretary general of the Umma party, one of several northern opposition groups which took up arms against the Khartoum government in 1995. The NDA links them with southern rebels of the Sudan People's Liberation Army who have been fighting since 1983 to end Muslim, Arabised domination of the mainly Christian and animist south.