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To: LARRY LARSON who wrote (1138)	1/28/2001 10:46:30 AM
From: Marantz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1713

Sudan rebels say destroy oil wells, kill troops (I haven't found any independent reports yet) CAIRO, Jan 28 (Reuters) - The rebel Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) said its forces had destroyed three oil wells, a drilling rig and three army camps and killed dozens of government troops in southern Sudan. It said in a statement received on Sunday that its forces had fought government troops on Friday in the Altimish district between Wangkai and Miyoum on the Heglig-Miyoum road in western Upper Nile state. The rebel group said its attack on the oil fields was the first of its kind since Sudan began exporting oil in August 1999 through a pipeline to a terminal on the Red Sea. It said fighting between the SPLA and government troops and pro-government militia had continued on Saturday outside the oil town of Bentiu, about 770 km (480 miles) southwest of Khartoum. There was no immediate comment from the Islamist government in Khartoum or from the Greater Nile Petroleum Operating Company, a consortium operating oil fields in the area. "The Sudan People's Liberation Movement (the SPLA's political wing) renews its warning to companies working in oil producing areas that these areas are legitimate military targets," said the statement. The SPLA said oil was being produced at the cost of displacing hundreds of thousands of people from their homes and burning their villages. It said oil revenue was being used to prolong the civil war that has racked the south since 1983. The SPLA has been fighting successive governments in the Arabic-speaking, Muslim north for secular rule and autonomy for the black African, non-Muslim south. Sudan, Africa's biggest country and one of its poorest, is now producing about 200,000 barrels per day of crude.