The World - News from May 19, 1988

Three men have confessed to the attacks on a Khartoum club and a hotel frequented by foreigners in which seven people died, Sudan’s police chief said. Gen. Ibrahim Abdul-Karim said the three, carrying Lebanese passports, said they wanted to hit U.S. and British targets. The police chief also said the three had been trained in an Arab country, which he did not name. The men were arrested shortly after the Sunday bomb attack on the Acropole Hotel and a machine-gun raid on the Sudan Club in central Khartoum. Five Britons and two Sudanese were killed, and at least 21 other people were injured.