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Interim Government Agrees To Compensate Family Members Of USS Cole Victims

February 13 2020

Sudan

The Sudanese transitional government has reached an agreement to compensate family members of the sailors killed in the attack on a U.S. Navy destroyer in Aden in 2000, reports the Sudan Tribune (Paris).

Khartoum will pay US$30 million to the family members of the 17 sailors aboard USS Cole who died, Justice Minister Nasr al-Din Abdel Bari said on Wednesday.

The agreement affirmed that the Sudanese government was not responsible for the attack or any other terrorist incidents, the...

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