Cables Suggest U.S. Knew Of Sudan Arms Shipments

by Jackie Northam, NPR

Among the cables in this week's dump of WikiLeaks documents are memos concerning shipments of arms through Kenya to Sudan. The cables suggest that the U-S turned a blind eye to the situation until Somali pirates brought it to public attention by seizing a tanker carrying 32 Soviet-made Ukrainian tanks, apparently bound for Sudan's south.

Broadcast Dates

• All Things Considered, December 10, 2010