FBI investigators arrive in Sudan for US diplomat slaying

[LeighAnn]

Source: AP via Albany Times Union

KHARTOUM, Sudan -- The body of an American diplomat gunned down in Khartoum was placed aboard a jet Thursday for a flight out of the country, and FBI agents arrived to investigate his slaying, U.S. Embassy officials said.

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"The FBI team is there working closely with local authorities and the diplomatic security team," said Walter Braunohler, a public affairs officer at the embassy in Khartoum.

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Granville, an official for the U.S. Agency for International Development, was being driven home about 4 a.m. Tuesday when another vehicle cut off his car and opened fire before fleeing the scene, the Interior Ministry said.

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Sudanese officials insist the shooting was not a terrorist attack, but the U.S. Embassy said it was too soon to determine the motive. There has been no claim of responsibility, and U.S. and Sudanese officials investigating the attack have not specified any suspects.

Attacks on foreigners are rare in Khartoum, where a U.S. diplomat was last killed in 1973.


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[acmavm]

1. First off, too bad an embassy official is dead. Having said that, I am just

amazed that the FBI is going to Khartoum, a foreign nation, to 'investigate' this murder and the Anthrax Killer is still out there free as a bird.