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March 27th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda “The Sudanese army launched land attacks on Unity State and followed that by air strikes against oil fields in the state,” Atim Garang, a leading member of South Sudan’s ruling People’s Liberation Movement said on Tuesday.
These attacks constitute a provocative move by Khartoum to drag the south to war again, he added.
“This morning … I heard the Antonov hovering over Bentiu town because it has just dropped some bombs in the main Unity oil fields,” Unity state Information Minister Gideon Gatpan said.
“It has now gone back, possibly for refueling, and may come back,” he said.
Sudan acknowledged its ground forces had attacked southern artillery positions which had fired at its part of the disputed oil-producing area of Heglig, but rejected launching any air strikes.
“South Sudanese army used mortars and rockets and we did the same, therefore it is not excluded that some rockets might have fallen in the oil fields because they were at a scene of military operations,” said al-Sawarmy Khalid Saad, spokesman of the Sudanese Armed Forces.
“It is not true that our war planes have targeted the oil sites in the south,” he noted, refuting South Sudanese army’s claims of taking control of Khartoum’s Heglig area.
Meanwhile, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he was worried about the fresh border tensions that erupted on Monday in several places along the poorly-marked border between the two countries.
South Sudan split from Sudan in July, but the two nations have yet to settle several issues including exact borders and distribution of oil revenues.
MRS/JR
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