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March 27th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
But Bashir decided to suspend the trip after the Heglig attack, Sudan’s state
radio reported on Monday in a text message alert. It gave no further details
and officials in Khartoum could not be reached for comment.
South Sudan’s army, or SPLA, on Monday accused Sudan of bombing the disputed
border areas of Jau and Pan Akuach and then moving ground forces against
another area called Teshwin.
“After repulsing the attack, the SPLA pursued the withdrawing SAF
(Sudanese Armed Forces) force and they captured two bases of SAF between
Heglig and Teshwin,” SPLA spokesman Philip Aguer said.
“This is a self-defence measure by SPLA to defend itself against
aggressors,” he said.
Aguer said parts of Heglig were now under control of the southern army, a
statement denied by Sudan.
Sudan’s army spokesman Sawarmi Khalid Saad told state news agency SUNA many
SPLA soldiers had been killed in the fighting in Heglig. SPLA forces later
withdrew towards the border, he added.
Saad confirmed fighting in the border area of Sudan’s South Kordofan state and
the southern Unity state. He denied there had been any fighting in Jau but
did not name other locations or say who started the violence.
Sudan’s government spokesman Abdullah Ali Masar accused South Sudan of
attacking Heglig with the help of rebels from the Darfur region, SUNA
reported. Darfur is the scene of a separate near decade-long insurgency
against the Khartoum government.
South Sudan secured its independence in a referendum promised in a 2005 peace
deal that ended decades of civil war with the north.
Each country has regularly accused the other of supporting rebels on either
side of the border but direct confrontations are rare.
Sudan’s army and SPLM-North rebels have been fighting in South Kordofan since
June. Clashes spread in September to Sudan’s Blue Nile state which also
borders South Sudan.
Both South Kordofan and Blue Nile are home to large communities who sided with
the south during the civil war but were left on the Sudan side of the border
after the secession. Khartoum says the SPLM-North is supported by South
Sudan, an accusation dismissed by the southern government.
South Sudan shut down its oil production in January to protest against
Khartoum’s seizure of some crude. Sudan said it took the oil to make up for
what it called unpaid transit fees.
Source: agencies
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