Israel Attacks Sudan

Editor’s note: Israel says it has attacked alleged Iranian weapons shipments destined to reach Hamas in the Gaza Strip, reports ABC News. It looks like Israel is building a case to eventually attack Iran proper.

[efoods]ABC News’ Luis Martinez reports: Israel has conducted three military strikes against targets in Sudan since January in an effort to prevent what were believed to be Iranian weapons shipments from reaching Hamas in the Gaza Strip, ABC News has learned.

Earlier this week, CBSNews.com was the first to report that Israel had conducted an airstrike in January against a convoy carrying weapons north into Egypt to be smuggled into the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.

But actually, since January, Israel has conducted a total of three military strikes against smugglers transporting what were believed to be Iranian weapons shipments destined for Gaza, a U.S. official told ABC News.

Read entire article

This article was posted: Saturday, March 28, 2009 at 10:30 am

---

---

---

---