حادثة اغتيال السفير الأمريكي عام 1973م وأثرها على العلاقات الأمريكية – السودانية

Abstract

At the Saudi Embassy in Khartoum on the evening of the first of March 1973 to an attack carried out by an armed group of the United Nations United Nations Space Agency, during a diplomatic ceremony held by the Saudi ambassador at the Saudi embassy in Khartoum, after the departure of guests from the gate of the embassy where the ceremony, The Land Rover carried Palestinian Organization Liberation diplomatic plates in Khartoum, got out of the masked men and fired into the air to force the guests to go back to the embassy. They were able to surround all those present. They saw the detention of Kurtz Moore and the American ambassador Clio Noy And the Jordanian embassy's charge d'affaires, the Saudi ambassador Abdullah al-Mellouq and his wife. They took them hostage in the embassy building. The kidnappers then demanded that Abu Daoud, the leader of the Sili faction, be freed by Jordan. Which arrested them in preparation for their trial, which caused tension in relations, both at the global level or the Arab, especially relations between the Sudan and the Palestine Liberation Organization.

Influenced the assassination of the American ambassador in Khartoum in 1973 on American relations-Sudanese to some extent and changed the course of relations between the two countries. However, the United States did not wish to lose its influence and diplomatic activity in Sudan. The assassination of the American ambassador in Khartoum was surpassed by the status enjoyed by Sudan. For the American strategy as one of the important countries on the African continent, the Sudanese government has become one of the most African governments to receive American aid, but in a manner that preserves their interests in the region and opens Sudan to its interests and the United States American oil companies, The links between the Arabian Gulf and West Africa until the Pacific Ocean.