Sudanese spies trained by Indians?

Quote: Sudanese spies trained by Indians? Posted on : 2007-11-03 | Author : IANS News Category : World Khartoum, Nov 3 - Sudan's spy chief has said Sudanese intelligence officers receive training in India among other friendly countries, a local newspaper reported. Salah Gosh, head of Sudan's National Security and Intelligence Service, made the comment in the context of Sudan's intelligence cooperation with US law enforcement agencies, including the Central Intelligence Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, as well as the US Department of Defense. Gosh told the Al-Ahdath daily from Libya that cooperation with US intelligence agencies had 'helped avert devastating measures [by the US administration] against Sudan.' Gosh said that Sudan's intelligence service has 'excellent' relations with its counterparts in US, Britain, France, China, India, Iran and Spain. He added that Sudanese intelligence officers have been receiving training in these countries, but did not elaborate. India's ambassador to Sudan Deepak Vohra declined comment on the report Friday, saying the embassy does not comment on intelligence matters. Intelligence cooperation between the US and Sudan was publicly exposed in 2005 when the Los Angeles Times disclosed that the CIA sent a special aircraft in April 2005 to Khartoum to fly Gosh to Washington for meetings on nabbing terror suspects in East Africa, the Sudan Tribune reported Tuesday. It said the report caused an outcry among US human rights groups who claim Gosh is responsible for human rights abuses in the war-ravaged region of Darfur, prompting the US government to subsequently deny Gosh entry to seek medical treatment for heart condition. The Los Angeles Times reported in June that Sudan has secretly worked with the CIA to spy on the insurgency in Iraq despite strained relations with Washington, which has imposed sanctions on Sudan over the Darfur crisis, the Sudan Tribune said. However, Gosh said that the cooperation with the CIA 'is not at the expense of Islamic public opinion in Sudan', and added that there were differences with the US spy agency over combating terrorism. The United Nations describes Darfur as the world's worst humanitarian crisis, with 200,000 fatalities and up to 2.5 million people displaced in the vast western Sudanese region. (c) Indo-Asian News Service © Copyright by SudaneseOnline.com http://www.sudaneseonline.com/en2/publish/Latest_News_1...Indians.shtml[/QUOTE]