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To: LARRY LARSON who wrote (1321)	10/21/2001 12:41:41 PM
From: VisionsOfSugarplums	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1713

Re activities last week: "Sudan rebels attack oil capital" news.24.com Cairo - The leading rebel group in Sudan's 18-year-old civil war said on Sunday it had attacked oil-rich Unity province's capital Bentiu and other targets last week, killing more than 400 government troops. The Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) said in a statement sent to Reuters in Cairo that the premises of a number of oil companies had been destroyed in its raid on Bentiu. It said it had also attacked the town of Rabkona and an army garrison at Tonak. "The SPLA renews its call to oil companies to withdraw before it is too late from the oil-producing areas which are legitimate military targets," the SPLA said. Sudanese government officials could not be reached immediately for comment on the SPLA's statement. The SPLA said 429 government troops were killed and some 105 fighters with pro-Khartoum militias had switched sides. The fighting lasted from October 12 to 20, the rebels said. Sudan began pumping oil in 1999 from fields in south Sudan, where the SPLA wants greater autonomy for the mostly animist and Christian south from the mainly Muslim, Arabic-speaking north. A United Nations report this month said the conflict, which has intensified in recent months, had turned into a war for oil. International human rights groups have charged that oil firms, by funnelling revenues to the government, were helping to fund the fighting. The Greater Nile Petroleum Operating Company (GNPOC) - 5% owned by Sudan's state Sudapec, 25% by Canada's Talisman Energy Co, 30% by Indonesia's state Petronas, and 40% by China's state CNPC - operates the Unity oilfield. Swedish Lundin Oil has exploration areas adjacent to the concession. The war has cost up to two million lives and displaced millions more Regards, t.