Posted on 12/25/2011 9:23:21 AM PST by Eleutheria5
Israeli fighter jets, helicopters and possibly a submarine were involved in multiple attacks on targets in Sudan last week, according to local news outlets. The reports say that Israeli jets hit targets in the eastern part of the African country, near its border with Egypt, last Thursday. They hit six Land Cruiser jeeps and killed four people. An earlier strike took place last Sunday and reportedly involved Israeli helicopters. A truck was targeted. Some reports say an Israeli submarine was also spotted at the same time.
However, the Sudanese army spokesman, Col. Al-Sawarmi Haled Sa'ad, said that the military's air defense array gave no indication that the country's airspace had been breached. Arabic news outlet Dar al-Hayyat on Sunday reported “conflicting information” coming out of Sudan regarding alleged Israeli air strikes. It said that the governor of Sudan’s Red Sea District recently received notification from several citizens in the region that the IAF had raided smuggler convoys, in Abu Thabaq in the disputed Hala’ib triangle.
Also according to al-Rakoba, on December 15, Israeli Apache helicopters landed on an island east of the Red Sea port of Mohammed Qol. In early 2009, an Israeli raid on a 23-truck convoy carrying weapons to Hamas terrorists in Gaza was reported.
Israel does not comment on reports of overseas actions such as these.
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Israel should develop a Trans Africa alliance with South Sudan, including support for military training and equipment. This will allow Israel and South Sudan to contain North Sudan from south and north. It will also motivate South Sudan to export its oil to Israel. Israel and South Sudan have common interests.
Unless Israel claims it so, how would anyone actually know Israel used a sub or stealth planes in a “strike”?
Probably the same way we “know” they have nukes.
They don’t really acknowledge it, but a lot of things make it fairly evident. There’s always a source and operational analysis that leads to certain conclusions. Likely that’ll occur at some point.
Israel and South Sudan, Copts in Egypt, Christians in Lebanon and Bethlehem, Kurds, perhaps in the Syria after Assad goes also Alawites, India, Armenia...we have a great many potential allies we’d best start cultivating. We could even form our own organization to counter the UN or work within its framework: The Allliance of Near and Far Eastern Minorities (ANFEM). There. We’ve got an acronym that’s easy to pronounce and remember. Time to get cracking.
More likely it was a combination of low level tactics, IAF ECM and incompetent Sudanese RADAR operators. Stealth technology does not make one invisible. Stealth technology only reduces the range at which one is detected.
Watched The Four feathers yesterday. My, how times have changed in the Sudan.
“They’re practicing for the big one, Iran.”
That was my first thought: practice makes perfect!
“Just out of curiousity, how would a typical Sudanese spotter know if a sub he spotted was Israeli or someone else’s?”
The sub line was fed to the reporter via an Israeli source. It was meant for the Iranians.
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