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To: VisionsOfSugarplums who wrote (1310)	10/8/2001 2:06:41 PM
From: Douglas V. Fant	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1713

Article by AFP posted on October 08, 2001 at 11:40:24: EST (-5 GMT) Khartoum bombs south Sudan village amid WFP food drop NAIROBI, Oct 8 (AFP) -- A Sudanese government aircraft on Monday bombed a village in the southern Bahr el-Ghazal region minutes before a UN cargo plane airdropped food there, a UN spokeswoman said. Brenda Barton, spokeswoman for the UN World Food Programme, told AFP that this was the third such incident since Friday. An Antonov bomber struck the village of Mangayath shortly before a UN plane flew over to drop food. Later Monday, the Khartoum government, which in recent weeks has worked to ease relations with Washington, condemned the US-led assault Sunday on fghanistan. The United States has traditionally supported the south Sudanese rebels who have been fighting the Khartoum government since 1983. "It was at the time the Ilyushin was due to drop its cargo that the Antonov showed up," WFP spokeswoman Brenda Barton told AFP. The bombing took place shortly after noon. The WFP aircraft, whose flight plans had been lodged with Sudanese officials, turned up at the village of Mangayath 15 minutes later. Similar incidents took place on Friday and Saturday, according to Barton, who said the UN had already sent three "proces-verbaux", a stern form of missive, to the government in Khartoum over the matter. "Without a doubt this abominable act will be taken up" by the United Nations, added Barton. "I don't see that people on the ground would have been sheltered. They were on the drop zone," she said, noting that WFP and other UN officials were on the ground at the time of the bombings. A government statement issued in Khartoum on Monday said: "We have rejected the violence (in New York and Washington) of September 11 and likewise we reject this war on Afghanistan because it cannot be an effective means for fighting violence and we believe this war will not be fair as it will certainly harm the innocent Afghani people."