Sudan denies involvement in embassies attack, Arab leaders condemn the act
Regional-Tunisia, Politics, 8/12/1998

The Arab League (AL) condemned the bombings of US embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam.

In a statement issued on Tuesday in Cairo, the AL underlined the importance of mobilizing regional and international efforts to combat terrorism, which threatens the international community as a whole.

Meanwhile, Tunisian President Zein al-Abidin Bin Ali expressed in messages he dispatched to US President Bill Clinton, Kenyan President Daniel Arap Moi, Tanzanian President Benjamin Makaba sympathy on the victims of the bombings which targeted the US embassies in Dar al-Salaam and Nairobi.

In his cable, the Tunisian President denounced the bombings which target innocent civilians. He described them as ugly terrorist acts which violate simplest human values.

Meanwhile, Speaker of the Moroccan House of Representatives, Abdelouhed Radi, sent his American peer a condolence message on the twin-bombings.

Radi expressed Morocco's solidarity and compassion with the families of the victims and said, "We reprobate these acts which caused victims among the nationals of your country working for the two US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania."

On Monday, Morocco's King Hassan II addressed the American, Kenyan and Tanzanian presidents condolence messages, wherein he firmly condemned the bombings and termed the attacks as "barbarous acts."

Elsewhere, the Sudanese government denied any involvement in the explosions, and said it considered any attempt to frame it as unjust, saying that such accusations express the bad intentions of those who make them.

The Sudanese ambassador in Cairo, Ahmed Abdel Halim, said that accusations should not be made haphazardly and should wait until the completion of investigations, adding that Sudan was the victim of repeated and unjust accusations although its record is clear of terrorism and political assassinations.

Reuters quoted Sudanese rebel leader John Garang as suggesting the Sudanese government has proximity to the attack "geographically and ideologically."

About 258 people have been killed and 5,000 others were injured in the two explosions, which occurred minutes apart in Kenya's capital Nairobi and Tanzania's capital Dar es Salaam last Friday.

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