Posted on 08/02/2005 8:52:57 PM PDT by Freedom of Speech Wins
Garang in plane scare
Published: Monday, 1 August, 2005, 12:04 PM Doha Time
KHARTOUM: Sudanese state television said yesterday that the authorities were still trying to locate an aircraft carrying First Vice President John Garang amid contradictory reports on its fate. “Sudanese President Omar Bashir contacted his Ugandan counterpart Yoweri Museveni to try and locate the aircraft carrying the first vice president,” state television said, reading a statement from Bashir’s office
. “Garang left Kampala heading for the New Sight camp in southern Sudan and contact was lost with the plane,” it said.
State television had initially reported that air traffic controllers had lost contact with the former southern rebel leader’s plane on its way from Uganda before saying it had landed safe and sound “at a camp” in the south. – AFP
Article came up in a google search under news for plane
BBC is I believe reporting him dead.
Saw some wierd article on this too that came up under the search earlier under http:www.thepeninsulaqatar.com
If he is alive, great.
Nope he's dead.
It's now 8/3 in most of the world. That story is two days old.
Still dead as of today.
Yes, I believed the BBC over this. Meant to get rid of the Hope he is alive line I typed though I would have preferred that he be alive here obviously.
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