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To: cree fetterman who wrote (7677)	1/30/1998 10:39:00 PM
From: Tomas	Respond to of 9164

Replay of the story about the Trojan Horse Karin Davies reported for AP on January 30 that Sudanese People's Liberation Army (SPLA) rebel forces have captured Wau, in southwestern Sudan, the southern terminus of a railway linking southern Sudan to Khartoum. Davies reported that the SPLA also gained the airport in Wau and Zagalona, an army garrison just north of Wau; Marial Ajith, northwest of Wau; Zara to the northeast; and Ariath, a garrison town farther north on the railway line. The SPLA, with the strongest force in the south, now holds more land than at any other time in its 14-year insurgency. It might also be noted that the wire services, which have been quoting Sudanese government officials bragging about the high defection rate among SPLA rebels to the government side, have now reported that the "defections" were part of an elaborate SPLA deception which culminated in SPLA forces infiltrating government strongholds and then rising up to take over those strongholds on behalf of the SPLA in a kind of replay of the famous story about the Trojan Horse. This strategy appears to have been employed in the captures described above. A well-placed Washington source told NCN that such an offensive would have as its goal the capture of Juba, but that it would start in the Wau area because SPLA forces would have their easiest time in that region. NCN's source, who has had direct contact with SPLA leader Garang, told NCN that the strategy would be to capture Juba and sue for peace, most likely insisting on a secession of southern Sudan to form a new country. Wau is about 425 km (265 miles) northeast of the southern capital Juba.