There was no immediate official comment on the story,
published in the Khartoum daily Akhbar Al-Yawm."The National
Intelligence and Security Service has captured the escaped prisoner
Abdel Raouf Abu Zaid Mohamed Hamzah, who is one of the four men
sentenced to death for the murder of US diplomat John Granville and his
Sudanese driver Abdelrahman Abbas," said the paper, quoting "reliable
sources."The paper said the fugitive was captured in Sudan's Khartoum
state but gave no more details of the arrest.Granville and driver
Abdelrahman Abbas Rahama, both employees of the US Agency for
International Development (USAID), were shot as they drove home from New
Year celebrations in Khartoum early on Jan. 1 2008.Abdel Raouf, the
son of a well known Islamic preacher, was sentenced to death alongside
three other men for the killings. All four denied murder, saying taped
confessions had been extracted under torture. The prosecution described
them as religious extremists.The four managed to escape through
sewerage pipes in Khartoum's Kober prison earlier this month and shot
dead a police officer as they fled past a checkpoint outside the
capital, police said.The US embassy in Khartoum demanded an
investigation into how the men had managed to escape from one of Sudan's most secure
prisons.
