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U.S. special operations forces carried out an evacuation of the American embassy in warring Sudan on Sunday, sweeping in and out of the capital, Khartoum, with helicopters on the ground for less than an hour. No shots were fired and no major casualties were reported.
With the last U.S. employee of the embassy out, Washington shuttered the U.S. mission in Khartoum indefinitely. Left behind were thousands of private American citizens remaining in the east African country.
U.S. officials said it would be too dangerous to carry out a broader evacuation mission. Battles between two rival Sudanese commanders entered their ninth day Sunday, forcing continued closing of the main international airport and leaving roads out of the country in control of armed men. Fighting has killed more than 400 people.
About 100 U.S. troops in three MH-47 helicopters carried out the operation. They airlifted all of roughly 70 remaining American employees from a landing zone at the embassy to an undisclosed location in Ethiopia. Ethiopia also provided overflight and refueling support, said Molly Phee, assistant secretary of state for African affairs.
U.S. Africa Command and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Mark Milley were in contact with both warring factions before and during the operation to ensure that U.S. forces would have safe passage to conduct the evacuation. However, John Bass, a U.S. undersecretary of state, denied claims by one faction, Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Security Forces, that it assisted in the U.S. evacuation.
“They cooperated to the extent that they did not fire on our service members in the course of the operation,” Bass said.
Sudan’s fighting broke out April 15 between two commanders who just 18 months earlier jointly orchestrated a military coup to derail the nation’s transition to democracy.
The ongoing power struggle now between the armed forces chief, Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan, and the head of the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group, Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, has millions of Sudanese cowering inside their homes, hiding from explosions, gunfire and looting.
The violence has included an unprovoked attack on an American diplomatic convoy and numerous incidents in which foreign diplomats and aid workers were killed, injured or assaulted.
An estimated 16,000 private U.S. citizens are registered with the embassy as being in Sudan. The figure is rough because not all Americans register with embassy or say when they depart.
The embassy issued an alert earlier Saturday cautioning that “due to the uncertain security situation in Khartoum and closure of the airport, it is not currently safe to undertake a U.S. government-coordinated evacuation of private U.S. citizens.”
Comments
#Didn’t Russia ..just 2 weeks ago try for a port via Sudan ?? — NHydg2023-04-23 16:32
Am I offset on this …….. I thought Russia had just negotiated a deal with Sudan to set up a Naval Port in the Red Sea…….. then……. the coup started up …..hmmm
#Cbc mentioned — Dkelliott2023-04-23 16:11
And I’m sure I heard this right,
Russia evacuate its citizens from canada as Canada is a ” target”
#Tanny Canny Arms Dealer — Dkelliott2023-04-23 16:18
Apperantly
+2 #Making it safe in Sudan — TexasBruce2023-04-23 13:26
What about Chicago, New York and all the other US cities just as dangerous? Oh, no, nevermind, they’re Demonshit led cities, they’re exempt.
This illegitimate regime is CLEARLY anti American
#Evacuation — Buffalolips2023-04-23 16:09
Fortunately the roads and airports out of those hell-holes you mention, and others, are still open for residents to flee to safer locations – but for how long?
#RE: U.S. Evacuates Embassy in Sudan — Paul Kurzlee2023-04-23 11:17
Why did the men there not have manpads available for these SCUM when they flew into town?
Once again gringo gets away and NOBODY does anything.
Fuck, they don’t even try to do anything.
+3 #RE: U.S. Evacuates Embassy in Sudan — TheBudda19682023-04-23 09:37
What the fuck is the US doing there in the first place!!! –
+4 #RE: U.S. Evacuates Embassy in Sudan — Ziglveit B Shtoonk2023-04-23 11:26
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Resource grab. Why else?
+6 #█▓▒░ U.S. Evacuates ░▒▓█ — Palehorse2023-04-23 09:32
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Looks like the US deep state coup backfired and now
it’s time to tuck tail and run.
+3 #RE: U.S. Evacuates Embassy in Sudan — WilliamtheResolute2023-04-23 09:00
The country was friendly to Russia up until the 2019 coup when the plotters started talking about “Democratic reforms” and suspended the elections. After al-Bashir’s removal, the United States and European nations began competing with Russia for influence in Sudan. The country is rich in natural resources, including gold…this is obviously another CIA color revolution.
+5 #Afghanistan Hostage SNAFU 2.0 — MissinD60s2023-04-23 08:53
The CIA fomented an overthrow, n then bailed on 16,000 Americans. They only saved their own worthless butts. Despicable…
+6 #Why — Greenfrog2023-04-23 08:37
would 16,000 Americans be there to begin with? Doesn’t seem like a vacation spot to me.
+5 #RE: U.S. Evacuates Embassy in Sudan — Gunner2023-04-23 08:32
The cock-sucking criminal US govt leaving Americans behind yet again. . . just like in Afghanistan! Sure seems to be a habit. These buffoons do NOT give a shit about you/us.
+3 #RE: U.S. Evacuates Embassy in Sudan — Stefanjunior2023-04-23 08:49
You are right, they do not care about us. Keep that in mind if you ever meet one of these soulless critters.
+2 #They — mizzy7772023-04-23 08:32
look at it as 16,000 less in the US. And I really believe the ones that are crossing the boarder, not china ones but others are not for voting but some evil killings. Heck they don’t need ppl for votes, they just rig it.
I feel for the ones left behind…again!
+5 #RE: U.S. Evacuates Embassy in Sudan — Stefanjunior2023-04-23 08:24
So the illegitimate radicalized globalist extremist deep state terrorists running the US starts chaos and leaves its citizens behind as a sacrificial lambs…again.
+2 #A few more like this… — dave09756442023-04-23 10:39
and maybe the justification for globalism falls apart as citizens from US and other NATO
countries get the message to
STAY THE FUCK HOME… no smurfs on the
ground to set up the trading and manufacturing and financial deals and what is left???
Quoting Stefanjunior:
So the illegitimate radicalized globalist extremist deep state terrorists running the US starts chaos and leaves its citizens behind as a sacrificial lambs…again.
+5 #The World is a powder keg. — MECHENG2023-04-23 08:23
As I read this Sudan update from Hal, it seems the world is on the verge of something major in the coming weeks or months. When I am out in public driving or in a store; people are really on edge and have a short temper. I am in the suburbs, can’t imagine what the big cities are like day to day. As a 60 something I never thought I would see all the kinetic activity locally and globally.
Thanks Hal for posting world updates.
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