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...bearded, 2-m Waite was a trophy: the Archbishop of Canterbury's lay envoy who helped negotiate the release of four British subjects detained by Libya...
...bearded, 6-ft. 7-in. Waite was a trophy: the Archbishop of Canterbury's lay envoy who helped negotiate the release of four British subjects detained by Libya...
...connections are tantalizing. Libya shuts down 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...
...addition of Sudan to a list that includes Libya, Iraq, Iran, Syria, North Korea and Cuba was ostensibly the culmination of a review that began under the Bush Administration. But U.S. officials may have also timed the announcement to send a signal of support to Egypt, whose secular government is under assault by fundamentalists. For months President Hosni Mubarak has been publicly accusing neighboring Sudan of backing his enemies. "The Sudanese deny it," says Mubarak, "but the camps are there. They are farms. They take people not only from Egypt but also from Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, and even...
...fearsome Revolutionary Guard has convinced Western intelligence agents that far more insidious activities are going on. This is the first time that Persian Shi'ite Iran has allied itself with an Arab Sunni Muslim government, but both regimes share a passionate disdain for neighboring secular states. Now that Libya and Syria are attempting to curry favor in the West by cutting their support for terrorist groups, says Philip Robins, Middle East expert at London's Royal Institute of International Affairs, "Sudan is the best ally Iran...