Sudan: Remembering John Granville
John Granville, just helping out the folks.He was the 33 yo USAID officer killed in cold blood in Khartoum, Sudan's safest city on New Year's Eve.
Sudan murder suspects used Saudi cash
Surprise, surprise. Those accused of his murder funded it with a donation from a Saudi and the money left over from a failed bomb plot. Even bigger shocker. One of the accused is the son of a prominent Muslim cleric.
Four Sudanese men accused of killing a U.S. aid worker funded the murder with a donation from a Saudi Arabian man and money left over from a failed bomb plot, the Sudanese police's chief investigator told a court on Monday.
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One of the four defendants, the son of a well known Islamic preacher in Sudan, received a donation of 35,000 riyals ($9,300) from a Saudi man called Al Naim, the Sudanese police's chief investigator told Khartoum North court on Monday.
Al Naim told the defendant to use the money to launch a jihad against westerners in Somalia, investigator Abdelrahim Ahmed Abdelrahim said. But the defendant, Abdel Raouf Abu Zaid Mohamed, instead decided to use the money to target Americans who he thought were trying to spread Christianity in Sudan, the investigator said.
The investigator said members of the group also used 9,000 Sudanese pounds ($4,300) left over from a failed bomb plot against western embassies in Khartoum.
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