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To: Razorbak who wrote (270)	5/7/1999 10:30:00 AM
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Sudan state troops repel rebel attack on oil sites KHARTOUM, May 7 (Reuters) - A Sudanese army spokesman on Friday said government troops had repelled an attack on oil fields in east Sudan by the rebel Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) and the opposition National Democratic Alliance (NDA). ''Our brave forces are now undertaking mopping up operations and are chasing pockets of rebel forces and traitors and hirelings who violated our eastern border,'' spokesman Mohamed Osman Yassin was quoted as saying by the official Sudan News Agency. He said the rebel attack was ''an attempt to undertake subversive activities on the oil pipeline and cripple traffic on the national Khartoum Port Sudan highway.'' Sudan is building a 1,600-km (1,000-mile) oil pipeline from southern oil fields to Port Sudan. It hopes to start oil exports by June 30, the anniversary of the 1989 coup that brought President Omar Hassan al-Bashir's Islamist government to power. Yassin said military reinforcements that arrived in the area blocked all the inlets that the rebels had infiltrated to destabilise the Khartoum Port Sudan highway, through which most of the country's imports and exports pass. The SPLA had said on Thursday that, along with its NDA allies, it had killed many government troops in Kassala state in three days of fierce fighting. Also on Thursday, Sudan's security and national defence committees, Khartoum's highest bodies for security policy-making, met to discuss the recent clashes. ''The meeting looked into the security and military situation and it took the necessary decisions,'' the daily al-Anbaa newspaper said. It said the meeting, held at army headquarters under the chairmanship of Bashir, made a number of important proposals but it gave no details. Ibrahim Haimd, the governor of Kassala, has declared a state of mobilisation to prevent the SPLA and the NDA from reaching the oil pipeline. The privately owned al-Rai al-Aam daily quoted the governor as saying he announced the mobilisation to abort any attempts by ''enemies targeting the oil pipeline and the national road.'' The SPLA has demanded a two-state confederation but Khartoum says this would lead to the independence of Southern Sudan. Rebels have been fighting the war of more than 15 years for greater autonomy for the mainly Christian and animist south against the mostly Moslem, Arabised north.