Hamas denies exiled leader has moved to Sudan

0 Comments | AFP, September, 2008

DAMASCUS (AFP) — The Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas on Tuesday denied that its political supremo Khaled Meshaal had moved from his self-imposed exile in Syria to Sudan.

"The movement totally denies media reports saying that Khaled Meshaal has left Syria for Sudan," a Hamas official said in a statement received by AFP. "These reports are false."

Early last month, Meshaal visited to Sudan to express solidarity with President Omar al-Beshir after the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court requested an arrest warrant for his arrest over alleged war crimes.

However, Hamas said Meshaal had since returned to Damascus.

In Khartoum, a spokesman for Beshir also denied that Meshaal had moved to Sudan. "We have no information about that," said...