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SUDAN Serious Intent Anxious to establish its anti-terrorist credentials, Sudan told a U.N. Security Council committee that it had "earnestly complied" with U.S. requests to provide information about suspects and had put in place new procedures to prevent fighters entering the country. To pursue its policy, though, the Khartoum government said it would need international assistance to improve efforts to freeze known terrorists' assets and train counter-terrorist forces...
...SUDAN: If Khartoum still needed telling, the fierce American campaign in Afghanistan served up a sobering reminder. The country's previous involvement with bin Laden brought on cruise-missile strikes in 1998, and there's no eagerness to repeat that experience. Six years on the State Department's terrorist list taught Sudan the economic cost of getting cozy with terrorists. The Islamic regime does remain suspect for nurturing extremism. Its diplomats were allegedly involved this year in a plot - dreamed up by an al-Qaeda agent connected to the Cole and East African embassy attacks - to bomb the U.S. embassy...
...Laden and al-Qaeda may have learned, by violent experience, to pre-empt and harness the new fanaticism. In late 1995, bin Laden's compound in Khartoum was attacked by gunmen believed to be Takfiri. A Sudanese friend of bin Laden's who questioned the surviving attacker said, "He was like a maniac, more or less like the students in the U.S.A. who shoot other students. They don't have very clear objectives." By the time al-Qaeda had resettled in Afghanistan, ideological training was an integral part of the curriculum, according to a former recruit who went...
...Khartoum was bin Laden's base from 1991 to '96. The U.S. responded to the 1998 embassy bombings with a missile assault on a suspected chemical-weapons plant in the capital...
...Laden and al-Qaeda may have learned, by violent experience, to pre-empt and harness the new fanaticism. In late 1995, bin Laden's compound in Khartoum was attacked by gunmen believed to be Takfiri. A Sudanese friend of bin Laden's who questioned the surviving attacker said, "He was like a maniac, more or less like the students in the U.S.A. who shoot other students. They don't have very clear objectives." By the time al-Qaeda had resettled in Afghanistan, ideological training was an integral part of the curriculum, according to a former recruit who went...