From Yahoo News:KHARTOUM, Sudan - More than 200 people were killed in fighting around Sudan's capital, the defence minister announced Tuesday, in the first official comment on casualties from last weekend's rebel assault on Khartoum.
Defence Minister General Abdul Rahim Mohammed Hussein told parliament that the rebels of Darfur's Justice and Equality Movement had suffered a crushing defeat, with at least two-thirds of the 180 vehicles involved in the assault destroyed, in comments carried by the official SUNA news agency.
For their part, the rebels admitted they had been defeated but promised further attacks on the capital unless the festering situation in the western region of Darfur where 200,000 people have died, was dealt with.
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My Comment: The Sudanese Government was definitely caught by surprise when rebels from the Darfur region attacked their capital. This is a warning sign to the Sudanese authorities that their policy of ethnic cleansing in the Darfur region will be producing a "blow-back" situation for them in the not so distant future.
Should anyone be surprised?
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