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...fundamentalist challenge takes two main forms. In the forefront is the traditional, more moderate approach of the 65-year-old Muslim Brotherhood, a religious, charitable and educational movement that abandoned the use of violence in 1971. It issued a statement last week denouncing the bombing as a "dangerous evil...
...some of its terrorist camps, and elements of the radical Palestinian Abu Nidal organization surface in Sudan. Lebanon's Hizballah and the Palestinian Islamic movement Hamas set up offices in Khartoum. Iranian President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani visits Khartoum, and Iranian Revolutionary Guard personnel soon arrive to train the fundamentalist people's militias set up by Sudan's Islamic regime. Rumors abound of Syrians, Palestinians and Iranians infiltrating schools in northern Sudan to recruit students for terrorist training camps in eastern Sudan. Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, spiritual leader of the Egypt-based Islamic Group, some of whose members are charged...
...last week put its official stamp on the proposition, adding the country to its short list of pariah states sponsoring terrorism. The State Department declared that "evidence currently available" showed that Sudan allows its territory to be used as a sanctuary and training ground for all manner of Muslim fundamentalist and radical organizations. The announcement followed news reports that linked two Sudanese diplomats in New York City to the aborted plot to bomb the U.N., although that connection was not cited as a reason for putting Sudan on the terrorist list. Said State Department spokesman Mike McCurry: "There...
Iran's interest in Sudan began after a fundamentalist-backed coup brought General Omar Hassan Bashir to power in 1989. Bashir immediately declared Sudan an Islamic state. Iran's President paid a call at the end of 1991, accompanied by his Defense and Intelligence ministers and the commander of the Revolutionary Guard. Reportedly, Iran agreed to provide Sudan with oil and technical aid in exchange for Sudanese livestock and wheat and promised to send Iranian Revolutionary Guards to train Sudanese Popular Defense Forces. U.S. officials say the Guards also offered instruction in subversion and guerrilla warfare for would-be terrorists...
Sudan has long enjoyed a reputation throughout the Islamic world for hospitality. Any Muslim is allowed to enter the country without a visa, no questions asked. Israeli intelligence sources say large numbers of fundamentalist Muslims who fought alongside the Afghans in their war against the Soviet-backed government in Kabul ended up in Sudan. Arab countries who had happily shipped off their extremists to Afghanistan were leery of taking them back. Egypt passed a law allowing the execution of any Egyptian who had undergone military training abroad...