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[ozzy72]

The Sudanese government had a nasty shock this week, when it read on a US Congress website that the Americans had conducted nuclear tests in the country.
A House of Representatives committee report mentioned tests conducted in Sudan between 1962 and 1970.
However, when alarmed Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail raised it with US officials in Khartoum, it turned out to be a typing error.
The report should have said Sedan, a test site in the US state of Nevada.
"There is nothing that makes us so far doubt the explanations we have received from the US Administration," said Mr Ismail.
He said he was very relieved to find that it was a simple error.
"Our first concern of course was for the people of Sudan," he said.
The American embassy in Khartoum issued a statement confirming that the US had never conducted nuclear tests in Sudan.

[Fozzer]

The Sudanese government had a nasty shock this week, when it read on a US Congress website that the Americans had conducted nuclear tests in the country.
A House of Representatives committee report mentioned tests conducted in Sudan between 1962 and 1970.
However, when alarmed Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail raised it with US officials in Khartoum, it turned out to be a typing error.
The report should have said Sedan, a test site in the US state of Nevada.
"There is nothing that makes us so far doubt the explanations we have received from the US Administration," said Mr Ismail.
He said he was very relieved to find that it was a simple error.
"Our first concern of course was for the people of Sudan," he said.
The American embassy in Khartoum issued a statement confirming that the US had never conducted nuclear tests in Sudan.

Further confusion...

Due to the recent Sudan 1 food scare, all residents of Sudan have been been removed from their country until the source of the epidemic has been located.

The Sudanese Ambassador, Mustafa Cuppatea, reported that the appearance of the suspect chllie powder in the refugee encampments points to an infiltration of Pakistani curry cooks into the country.

Paul.

[Hagar]

Further confusion...

Due to the recent Sudan 1 food scare, all residents of Sudan have been been removed from their country until the source of the epidemic has been located.

LOL Paul. I must admit that confused me when I first read about it. I'm sure I wasn't alone & some people probably still think this stuff originated from the Sudan. Whatever made them call it by that name in the first place?

Maybe the Sudanese Ambassador should think seriously about suing someone for giving his country a bad reputation.

[Paz]

"Our first concern of course was for the people of Sudan," he said.

 Isn't this the place where the government has been killing hundreds of thousands of people?
I guess they wouldn't want them to die from radiation poisoning before they can get the armies in there to kill them first.

[TacitBlue]

Maybe the Sudanese Ambassador should think seriously about suing someone for giving his country a bad reputation.

Then he should sue the Sudanese government.

[Craig.]

You'd have thought within the last 40 odd years someone would have noticed a 300 foot deep crater in the middle of their landscape Gotta feel sorry for those translators one slip up like this and you could cause a major incident.

[Felix/FFDS]

Gotta feel sorry for those translators one slip up like this and you could cause a major incident.

TRANSLATORS?  We're talking about someone, who's working language is English, not applying common sense!

[SilverFox441]

Maybe the whole problem with the Sudan 1 stuff was caused by the nuclear weapons testing?