The World - News from June 20, 1988

Five men charged with killing two Sudanese and five Britons in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum last month told a Sudanese court they were Palestinians. Officials said the five, who identified themselves in court simply as “fighters for the Arab cause,” had Lebanese passports and had confessed to being trained in Lebanon’s Syrian-controlled Bekaa Valley. Police have said they had targeted Americans and Britons in Sudan. The Britons, including two children, and the two Sudanese--one an army brigadier--were killed May 15 when assailants machine-gunned the Sudan Club and a bomb explosion brought down the dining room roof at the Acropole Hotel.