U.S. Expels Sudan Envoy to U.N.
The United States has ordered the expulsion of a Sudanese diplomat suspected of aiding terrorists who plotted to blow up the United Nations and assassinate Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
U.S. officials told Ahmed Yousif Mohamed, a second secretary at the Sudanese mission to the United Nations, on Tuesday that he had 48 hours to leave the country, James P. Rubin, a spokesman at the U.S. mission, said Wednesday.
A U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Mohamed and a second Sudanese diplomat, Siraj Yousif, were suspected of giving information to terrorists in 1993. Yousif has already left New York.
Last week, U.S. Ambassador Madeleine Albright told members of the Security Council that two members of the Sudanese mission were aiding terrorists groups.
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