January 04, 2008
Group Claims Responsibility For Diplomat's Death In Sudan
A group calling itself Ansar al-Tawhid, or Companions of Monotheism, has claimed responsibility for the Jan. 1 murder of a U.S. diplomat in Sudan, the SITE Intelligence Group is reporting.
SITE, which monitors extremist Web sites, said today that there was no way to verify the statement from the previously unknown organization. "The soldiers of Tawhid carried out an operation of killing the American diplomat and his Sudanese driver who sold his religion for few benefits of life, in the section of Al-Riyadh in eastern Khartoum," the claim reads, according to SITE's translation.
John Granville of the U.S. Agency for International Development and his driver, Abdel-Rahman Abbas, were shot and killed early on New Year's Day. Sudanese officials have ruled out terrorism, but the FBI arrived in Khartoum yesterday to begin its own investigation of the diplomat's death.
Granville's body was flown home for burial yesterday.
