June 24, 2009
Four al-Qaeda in the Land between the Two Niles Members to Hang
KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Four Sudanese men were on Wednesday condemned to hang for killing a U.S. aid official and his driver in Khartoum, and a fifth was sentenced to two years in prison.Hang em high.John Granville, from the U.S. Agency for International Development, was the first U.S. government official killed in Khartoum in more than three decades in a crime that sent shockwaves through the capital's expatriate community.
Granville, 33, and his 39-year-old driver Abdelrahman Abbas Rahama were shot dead as they returned from New Year's celebrations in the early hours of January 1, 2008.....
...The prosecution said defendants Mohamed Makkawi Ibrahim Mohamed and Abdel Basit al-Hajj Hassan fired the shots that killed Rahama and Granville.
Prosecution statements said the third defendant Mohamed Osman Yusuf Mohamed, a former army officer, was the driver of the attackers' vehicle while Abdel Raouf Abu Zaid Mohamed, the son of a well known Islamic preacher, was a passenger.
