Sudan has rejected a US request to send special forces to protect its embassy in Khartoum following violent protests against a film deemed offensive to Islam.
The US government has expressed its wish to send special forces to protect its embassy in Khartoum after the events
that took place in most Muslim countries,” the official SUNA news agency quoted a foreign ministry spokesman as saying.
But Sudanese Foreign Minister Ali Karti “refused to accommodate these forces,” he added.
The United States had made the request yesterday “during a phone call between a deputy of the US secretary of state
(Hillary Clinton)” and Karti, said the spokesman.
The minister had explained his decision by saying that Sudan was capable of “protecting its guests in diplomatic
representations,” he added.
The Pentagon has said it is examining the possibility of sending Marines to Sudan after deploying them in Yemen and
Libya, where ambassador Chris Stevens was among four Americans killed in an attack on a US consulate on Tuesday.
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