U.S. tightens security at embassy in Sudan

WASHINGTON-The United States said on Monday it had tightened security at its embassy and offices in Sudan after an international prosecutor sought the arrest of the country's president on genocide charges in Darfur.Fearing a violent backlash, the United States assessed security at both its embassy in Khartoum and U.S. facilities in the southern Sudanese capital of Juba, said State Department spokesman Sean McCormack."We have taken appropriate security measures for our people," McCormack said without elaborating. He also refused to say how many U.S. diplomats were in the country.The Hague-based International Criminal Court's prosecutor charged Sudanese president Omar Hassan al-Bashir with masterminding a campaign of genocide in Darfur, killing 35,000 people and using rape as a weapon of war.ICC Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo asked the court for an arrest warrant for Bashir, the first sitting head of state to be pursued by an international court since Liberia's Charles Taylor and before that Yugoslavia's Slobodan Milosevic.McCormack said violence was possible against U.S. interests and international peacekeeping forces in Sudan after the ICC decision."We would urge restraint on all parties in Sudan," he said.Thousands of protesters chanted anti-American slogans at a rally in Khartoum on Sunday to protest a potential arrest warrant, which Sudanese Justice Minister Abdel Basit Sabderat told the crowd would ignite his country.
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