The Aviationist

 

Although it didn’t get much attention, something quite unexpected happened in the last days: Israel has attacked Sudan.

This is what seems to emerge in the aftermath of a mysterious explosion that occurred in a arms factory in Khartoum on Oct. 24.

Sudan accused that the Yarmouk munitions factory in Sudan, believed to be supplying weapons to the Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip, was indeed attacked in Israeli Air Force’s last long-range raid against a nearby “dangerous terrorist state.”

From Aviation Week

 

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U.S. And Israeli Officials Analyze Sudan Attack

November 05, 2012

David Fulghum, Washington

 

A bombing raid on the Yarmouk weapons factory near Khartoum, Sudan, destroyed dozens of shipping containers thought to carry rockets and other weapons headed for Egypt's lawless Sinai Peninsula and Hamas-run Gaza.

From Defense Update

 

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Was The Alleged Attack on Sudan Prelude to Iran?

Posted by David Eshel

 

A powerful explosion at the Yarmuk military factory rocked Sudan’s capital before dawn, sending detonating ammunition flying through the air and causing panic, the Sudan official news agency and local media reports said. Thick black smoke covered the sky over the Military Industrial Complex in southern Khartoum.