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Special to Newsline from Canadian correspondent Errol P. Mendes

CALGARY
An oil pipeline that is part of a controversial project in the Sudan was bombed last week, stopping the flow of oil to a port on the Red Sea.

The project, 25-percent-owned by a Canadian oil company, Talisman Energy Inc., has been criticized by nongovernmental groups around the world because it brings new oil revenues to the fundamentalist Islamic government in the Sudan, which has been accused of major human-rights abuses and is engaged in a civil war that has cost approximately two million lives.

Sudanese military also patrol the pipeline, which has been openly targeted for attack by rebels.

Talisman has attempted to downplay the incident. Company spokesman David Mann stated that the attack was a minor incident, and that pipelines get blown up in Alberta, Canada, also.