Tags: Sudan, Satellite Sentinel Project, DigitalGlobe, Israel
Publication: ABCNews.go.com
Publication Date: 10/29/2012

Image showing the impact crates at the Yarmouk weapons factory in Sudan. Image credit: SSP

On Oct. 25, the Satellite Sentinel Project (SSP), a partnership between anti-genocide non-profit Enough Project and the satellite imaging company DigitalGlobe, has published birds-eye images from Sudan’s Yarmouk weapons factory. This site had exploded two days before on what Sudanese officials called an air strike from Israel.

The satellite images released appear to confirm Sudan’s claims of an aerial bombing. The SSP identified 16-meter-wide craters consistent with impact craters created by air-delivered munitions. With a total destruction of the 60-meter-long building and approximately 40 shipping containers around it, the SSP reported the explosion also created damages as far as 700 meters away from the factory building.

The weapon factory belonged to and was run by the Iranian government according to analysts, which ignites the suspicions that Israel was behind the presumed attack.

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