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Foreign minister deplores intelligence mission

    NAIROBI

    A delegation of United States intelligence agents remains in Sudan, investigating allegations that Sudan “sponsors terrorism” and is involved in manufacturing Scud missiles, Sudanese Foreign Minister Mustafa Ismail complained. Ismail was quoted by a Khartoum daily as saying the delegation, which arrived in June, “is still in Sudan carrying out its assignment of verifying allegations that the Sudan sponsors terrorism”. The delegation reportedly comprises experts from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the State Department, AFP reported on Wednesday. Local newspapers cited Ismail as challenging the US delegation to “verify this Scud accusation by locating the plant”. Some members of the US intelligence delegation left at the beginning of July, but Ismail claimed members of the team had been continuously present since it arrived in June, AFP reported.

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