Sudanese foreign minister denies Sudan connected with Bin Laden

Sudanese Foreign Minister Mustafa Othman Ismael stated that Sudan has no commercial or political connections with Osama Bin Laden the Saudi dissident accused by the United States of sponsoring attacks against American targets.

He said during his participation in the meetings of the foreign ministers of the Non-Aligned Movement in South Africa that his country broke off any relations with Bin Laden when he left Sudan in 1995 as a result of pressure from Saudi Arabia and the U.S.A.

He added that all the companies owned by the exiled Saudi dissident became property of either the government or other businessmen.