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To: Edward M. Zettlemoyer who wrote (864)	5/2/2000 12:36:00 PM
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200-metre Long Hole Blown in Oil Pipeline: Local Officials "Camel-back chase for rebels accused of blowing up Sudan pipeline" News Article by AFP on May 02, 2000 at 10:10:12 EST (-5 GMT): KHARTOUM, May 2 (AFP) - Camel-mounted Sudanese soldiers and police chased rebel tribesmen across the Red Sea mountains on Tuesday after they allegedly blew up a new oil export pipeline, a senior police officer said. The troops fought a brief gun-battle with the four Monday after tracking their camels' footprints 80 kilometres (50 miles) from the scene of Monday's dawn blast, the third such attack in a year, Abu Bakr Abdel Qadir told AFP. The attack on the pipeline took place about 160 kilometres (100 miles) southwest of the Red Sea's Port Sudan and about 50 metres (yards) away from the previous sabotage blast in January. Leaflets signed by the opposition Bejah Congress were found at the scene, vowing to keep targeting the pipeline until "marginalisation and injustice" were ended in their region, the police spokesman said. The Bejah, a group of eastern Sudanese tribes whose Congress belongs to the opposition National Democratic Alliance (NDA), also left pamphlets at the scene of January's attack. Abdel Qadir could not confirm newspaper reports that security officers had shot and killed one of the rebels and said the chase was still on. The first attack on the 1,610-km pipeline in September last year near Atbara, north Sudan, was claimed by the NDA. Red Sea State Governor Abu Ali Majzoub Abu Ali was quoted by the official Al Anbaa daily as saying Monday's pipeline rupture was 200 metres long and a large quantity of crude flowed out. But Oil Ministry Secretary General Hassan Mohammed al-Tom said Monday the attack caused "a limited leakage" without fire breaking out and that repairs would take 24 hours. Sudan, which has been in the throes of a civil war since 1983, began exporting crude oil for the first time last year from Port Sudan after developing oil fields in the south, but still imports some oil products. Anti-government rebels have previously carried out acts of sabotage against the oil industry here, damaging the import pipeline to the capital in an attack in November 1999.