"Chad has nothing to do with this adventure," Chadian Information Minister Muhammad Hissein told Qatar-based Pan-Arab al- Jazeera television monitored in Khartoum.

However, by the Saturday action, the JEM has minimized the possibility of forcing the government back to negotiation table on the conditions aroused by the rebel group, even if this was one of the main aims it was seeking in the attack.

Presidential adviser Mustafa Osman Ismail ruled out any chance of holding talks with the JEM after the attack.

"From this day we will never deal with this movement again other than in the way they have just dealt with us," he said on al- Jazeera TV channel.

The international society, notably including the U.S., France, Britain, which used to be vehemently criticizing the Sudanese government over the Darfur issue, has denounced the Saturday's attack by the JEM rebels on Khartoum.

(Xinhua News Agency May 12, 2008)