Air Strike On Car In Port Sudan Kills Two

Haaretz ^ | 6 April 2011 | Avi Issacharoff, Amos Harel, Yossi Melman and Reuters

[edpc]

Two people were killed in an attack on a car near Port Sudan on Tuesday, which police suggested was a missile fired from the sea, while state media and a regional government official blamed a foreign aircraft.

Witnesses at the scene near the airport at Sudan's main port city said the small car was destroyed and the two charred bodies of its passengers could be seen.

[edpc]

Obviously, HVTs for the strike to be carried out. Wonder who the targets were......

[BerryDingle]

The Sudanese Media Centre said the army responded with missiles that the foreign plane managed to evade.

Well, that explains it, the plane was from Chad.

[Tainan]

This is not the first time mystery has surrounded a strike in Sudan's eastern Red Sea state.

In January 2009, a convoy of arms smugglers was hit by unidentified aircraft in Sudan's eastern Red Sea state according to Sudanese authorities, a strike that some reports said may have been carried out by Israel to stop weapons that most probably came from Iran and were bound for Gaza.

Precision targeting, no collateral damage....mission accomplished. Back to base.

I like it when a plan comes together.

[Walkingfeather]

The problem with the Israelis work is that it is done with such elegance, sophistication and surgical precision that it is their calling card. Everyone knows it is them. They only had the one screw up about a year ago in UAE with the hamas guy.

[paratrooper82]

“They only had the one screw up about a year ago in UAE with the hamas guy.” Personally, I have trained with Israeli Mossad and they do not make mistakes! That was no accident or a screw up, they (Massad) wanted hamas to know they can be reached anywhere in the world!

Take that for whatever it is worth my fellow American!

[edpc]

If it was Israel, they had to do it with with tacit or expressed approval of arab nations. Jordan, Saudi Arabia, or Egypt are on the route to Sudan.

[Jaysin]

“They only had the one screw up about a year ago in UAE with the hamas guy.”

what was so screwy about it. they killed the guy without getting caught. I wouldn’t believe the Dubai police with their passport release—c’mon—a 27 man hit squad to kill the guy. I’d be shocked if the Mossad even has 27 assassins.

i read somewhere that they had hoped to kidnap the guy as a bargaining chip for the Israeli solider held in Gaza, but he OD’d on the stuff they tried to drug him with.

[Walkingfeather]

Sorry they are great but not flawless. They lost (in effectiveness) like 8-9 of their agents by having their pictures posted all over the world. No agency in their right mind would send a signal like that. They will get taken care of but that was not intentional.

[Thunder90]

Predator/Reaper with Hellfire missiles?