This past Wednesday, nobody reported that a squadron of 8 Israeli F-15 jets dropped 4 two-ton bombs on the giant Yarmouk missile factory on the outskirts of Sudan's capital Khartoum. Which is just as Israel wanted it. Because what otherwise would be a provocative incursion tantamount to war (if only Sudan wasn't a complete basket case of a country), was really nothing short of a dry-run for an Israeli attack on Iran. At least according to the Sunday Times. "A long-range Israeli bombing raid last week that was seen as a dry run for a forthcoming attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities has destroyed an Iranian-run plant making rockets and ballistic missiles in Sudan.... The raid, in which two people died, triggered panic across the city. Witnesses said they heard a series of loud blasts followed by the sound of ammunition exploding. “It was a double impact — the explosion at the factory and then the ammunition flying into the neighbourhood,” said Abd-al Ghadir Mohammed, 31, a resident. "The ground shook. Some homes were badly damaged." And... nobody cares. Here we leave it up to readers to imagine the epic horror, deep revulsion that would greet news that Iran had conducted a pre-emptive strike against Israel by blowing up a missile factory in Turkey, killing two innocent people, just to make sure it can.

A visual summary of the attack:



This is what was left of the Somali factory after the Israeli self-appointed (because national borders are for chumps) punishment force was done with it:



And the full post-mortem of the operation that took place 4 days ago, via Voice of Russia:

The attack occurred in the early morning of October 24, when eight Israeli F-15I jets – four of them carrying two one-ton bombs, escorted by four fighters – struck a gigantic Yamrouk missile site. The evidence is that this strike is a general rehearsal before the Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear facilities.
 
According to western defense sources, the 2,400-mile return flight took the Israelis four hours, with the jets flying south along the Red Sea. The planes entered the Sudanese air space from the east to avoid Egypt’s missile defenses.
 
The anti-Iranian operation kicked off two years ago when Mossad agents murdered a Palestinian businessman and a HAMAS highflyer, Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh, in a Dubai hotel suit, retrieving a suitcase with a military agreement between Iran and Sudan, wherein Khartoum offered Tehran its military sites to make weapons.
 
The Yamrouk facility produced Shahab ballistic missiles, which were then to be delivered to HAMAS rebels in the Gaza strip and other Middle Eastern regions.
In other words: add the Israeli invasion of Iran on the "To Do" list, alongside Grexit, the official Spanish bailout request, the Chinese Congress, the Japan-China territorial re-escalation, sliding down the Fiscal Cliff, and the debt ceiling breach, as soon as possible after the November 6 election.

And all that, of course, assuming Sky Net does not finally take over tomorrow when only robots will be left trading.

You source seems bias and faulty...not credible enough to convince me though

I wish they can send just one of those Bomb to Northern part of Nigeria to Bomb all Bokos in Our sweet Country

Link from more mainstream newspapers:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/oct/25/israeli-sudanese-factory-secret-war
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/26/world/africa/official-silence-in-israel-over-sudans-accusations-of-air-attack.html?_r=0
http://world.time.com/2012/10/25/did-israel-bomb-a-sudanese-ammunition-depot/
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/25/sudan-planes-israel-idUSL5E8LP8XJ20121025

I am impressed by these Israelis though.

Flew nearly 1200 miles in a mission, completely undetected.

And notice how they are neither confirming or denying the attack.

Nifty.

EYE FOR AN EYE......SMALL ISRAEL BUT MIGHTY...ANYWAY,SUDAN RAG TAG MILITARY MEN WITH POORLY EQUIP RUSSIAN COLD WAR WEAPONS,WHAT CAN THEY DO? JUST SIT AND CRY LIKE A BABY...

ekt_bear: I am impressed by these Israelis though.

Flew nearly 1200 miles in a mission, completely undetected.

And notice how they are neither confirming or denying the attack.

Nifty.

yeah, undetected, thats with sudan bro.

The thing that somewhat annoys is me is, wetin concern Iran, Sudan etc with Israel?

Why are they so keen on seeing Israel fall sef?

They don't share any borders with the country. Doesn't Sudan have more pressing issues to face?

This is the problem with Islamist thinking. Rather than facing problems in your own country, you will be fighting battles somewhere in the middle east against Israel, a country that has nothing to do with you.

My question is WHY would a country like Sudan who hasn't been able to feed her country citizen or have a stable functioning government for more than 3 decades be building a missile factory? When will Muslim countries embrace peace for goodness sake?

Allahu akubah!!!
Sudan doesn't need to be making bombs or missiles, that poor country needs to feed its citizens, and not be a base for the terroristic Iranians.

The bombed Sudanese factory produced Iranian Shehab missiles
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report October 24, 2012, 11:03 PM (GMT+02:00) Tags:  Sudan   Shahab missiles   Iran   air strike 

Sudanese missile factory in flames

The Yarmouk Complex of military plants near Khartoum, whicht was bombed five minutes after midnight Wednesday, Oct.  24, by four fighter-bombers, recently went into manufacturing Iranian ballistic surface-to-surface Shehab missiles under license from Tehran, DEBKAfile’s military and intelligence sources disclose. Western intelligence sources have not revealed what types of Shehab were being turned out in Sudan but they believe the Yarmouk’s output was intended to serve as Tehran’s strategic reserve stock in case Iran’s ballistic arsenal was hit by Israeli bombers.

The Israeli Air Force has a long record of pre-emptive attacks for destroying an enemy’s long-range missiles in the early stages of a conflict. In June 2006, for instance, the IAF destroyed 90 percent of Hizballah’s long-range missiles in the first hours of the Lebanon war.
Videos of the explosions caused in the air raid over Sudan showed large quantities of phosphorus flares in the sky suggesting that a large stockpile was demolished along with the manufacturing equipment.

Western sources did not divulge information about the comings and goings of Iranian missile specialists or whether the Bashir government had given Tehran permission to stage attacks from Sudan against Middle East targets, in return for the allotment of a number of missiles to the Sudanese army. All they would say is that the complex's structures had been completely leveled by the aerial bombardment and subsequent fire.
Sudan accused Israel of the attack and stated it reserved the right to respond at a time and circumstances of its choosing. Israeli officials declined to comment in answer to questions.

Less than 24 hours after Sudanese President Omar Bashir pledged “decisive steps against Israeli interests which are now legitimate targets,” for the destruction of the Iranian missile plant in Khartoum, Palestinian rocket teams early Sunday, Oct. 28, fired Grad missiles as target finders against Israel’s nuclear reactor in Dimona. This is reported exclusively by DEBKAfile.

They exploded on open ground in the Ramat Negev district southwest of the town of Dimona.  

The nuclear plant is only 42.5 kilometers as the crow flies from the southern Gaza Strip.  Saturday night, the Israeli Air Force struck a Palestinian rocket team in the southern Gaza town of Khan Younes, killing one Hamas operative and injuring a second critically.

The Palestinian Hamas has evidently launched a new and expanded targeting-policy marking two developments of grave import: One: Its rulers have submitted the Gaza Strip to Tehran for use as its southern operational arm against Israel, complementing Hizballah’s pivotal role to the north of Israel; and two, having acquired improved surface missiles, Hamas is setting its sights firmly on the most sensitive locations within their reach, e.g., Israel’s nuclear reactor and air force bases and the American X-band radar station in the Negev.

The Islamist rulers of Gaza are expected to keep on trying to perfect their aim.

Well,if this news is true,I give Isreal an aplause.Thumb up for Isreal.

ekt_bear: The thing that somewhat annoys is me is, wetin concern Iran, Sudan etc with Israel?

Why are they so keen on seeing Israel fall sef?

They don't share any borders with the country. Doesn't Sudan have more pressing issues to face?

This is the problem with Islamist thinking. Rather than facing problems in your own country, you will be fighting battles somewhere in the middle east against Israel, a country that has nothing to do with you.

Take a look at the horn of africa again and the map of the middle east. Look at sudan, iran and israel, then REPHRASE your statement!

1.  Its air force flew 1,800-1,900 kilometers to reach the Sudanese arms factory, a distance longer than the 1,600 kilometers to the Iranian underground enrichment site of Fordo. This operation may have been intended to show Tehran that distance presents no obstacles to an Israeli strike on its nuclear program.

2.  The IAF has an efficient in-flight refueling capability.

3.  The raid would have degraded Iran’s ability to retaliate for a potential Israel or US attack.

If it was conducted by Israel, it would add a third item to the list of backdoor assaults in which Iran and Israel appear to be engaged in the past three months.
On August 17, the power lines to Fordo were sabotaged, interrupting the work of enrichment taking place there and causing some of the advanced centrifuges to catch fire.
On Oct. 6, an Iranian stealth drone was launched from Lebanon into Israeli air space and photographed its most sensitive military sites as well as the Dimona nuclear reactor before Israel brought it down.

A-town:


Take a look at the horn of africa again and the map of the middle east. Look at sudan, iran and israel, then REPHRASE your statement!

I think you are the individual more in need of examining a map than I.

What border does Sudan, a country in Africa share with Israel, a country technically speaking in Asia?

What border does Israel share with Iran?

ekt_bear: The thing that somewhat annoys is me is, wetin concern Iran, Sudan etc with Israel?

Why are they so keen on seeing Israel fall sef?

They don't share any borders with the country. Doesn't Sudan have more pressing issues to face?

This is the problem with Islamist thinking. Rather than facing problems in your own country, you will be fighting battles somewhere in the middle east against Israel, a country that has nothing to do with you.

Islam is the basic problem here. Muslims everywhere are united in the destruction of Israel as that is what mohammad predicted. Israel's power is an affront to everything that islam represents. It is amazing that Sudan, which shares no border or military issues with Israel" is more interested in the destruction of Israel than it is with its own crumbling nation.

What happened to countries' sovereignty?

Iranian government is on her toes now,because Israel just started with one of their allies and friendly nations within that region to ensure that Iran doesn't get any help from any one of them when the D-day approaches.

I know that when Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu drew that red line during last United Nations General Assembly ,it's only a matter of time for some middle east country's a$$ to be kicked again like the yom kippur war of 1973.

But i ask these questions,why all the hatred for the jewish nation by the Arabs? and why are the Jewish people enslaving the Palestinian people in their own land?

ekt_bear:

I think you are the individual more in need of examining a map than I.

What border does Sudan, a country in Africa share with Israel, a country technically speaking in Asia?

What border does Israel share with Iran?

It's not about sharing borders. It's about using Sudan as strategically positioned military ally

Israel will forever be at war

As long as beautiful South Sudan is not involved I don't care.

ekt_bear: The thing that somewhat annoys is me is, wetin concern Iran, Sudan etc with Israel?

Why are they so keen on seeing Israel fall sef?

They don't share any borders with the country. Doesn't Sudan have more pressing issues to face?

This is the problem with Islamist thinking. Rather than facing problems in your own country, you will be fighting battles somewhere in the middle east against Israel, a country that has nothing to do with you.

A-town:


Take a look at the horn of africa again and the map of the middle east. Look at sudan, iran and israel, then REPHRASE your statement!

exactly!! Israel is not only surrounded by enemies but these enemies are banded together to fight a tribal war (Arabs vs Jews) that has become both religious and political over the centuries.

They (others who are not really directly involved *cough African Islamists*) fight alongside the Arabs in the name of the fallacy they call the "Arab Brotherhood".

miqos02: Israel will forever be at war

Israel is not backing down o..

Na wah for them oo! As long as I am safe...I.D.G.A.D