Sudan Complains About Typing Error

// March 20th, 2005 // News // 1,310 views

Seems Don isn’t the only one complaining about spelling mistakes. According to Reuters, a simple typing error caused a nuclear scare recently.

“A stenographer for the U.S. Congress generated alarming headlines in the Sudanese press this week by giving the mistaken impression the United States conducted nuclear tests in the African country in 1962 and 1970….

…But Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail, who had summoned the U.S. charge d’affaires on hearing the news, said Thursday it turned out that the word Sudan was merely a typing error for Sedan, the name of a nuclear test site in Nevada.”

Guess they will definitely not make the same mistake again.

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