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To: Edward M. Zettlemoyer who wrote (9129)	10/1/1998 10:53:00 AM
From: Douglas V. Fant	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9164

Ed, My guess is that John Garang de Mabior would invite Amnesty International in. One of the great "failures" of the SPLA is to invite the western press in to accompany them into the war zones to see the death, destruction, slave trade, and mass rapes conducted by the NIF. Look at the Kosovo situation- total world coverage on that issues with the Serbs. Yet when 10 times as many people are massacred or starved to death by the NIF government in the Sudan- no news. That is partly the SPLAs fault IMO.... Also I don't want to alarm anyone here, but there has been some significant fighting around the Bentiu oil fields of late. But strangely it's not the SPLA and NIF. Two militias aligned with the NIF Government are fighting in Unity State- partly over timing of oil development. I'll try to post an article on the fighting... Also interetingly Idi Amin's son has shown up in the Congo as Leader of a Ugandan rebel unit trained by the NIF... Finally FWIW Hosni Mubarak in Egypt stated yesterday that just maybe the Sudanese manufacturing plant contained chemical weapons components.... Sincerely, Doug F.

To: Edward M. Zettlemoyer who wrote (9129)	10/1/1998 11:01:00 AM
From: Douglas V. Fant	Respond to of 9164

Ed, Here is note #!... New Vision 09/30/98 A SON of former president Idi Amin Dada is commanding a unit of Ugandan rebels deployed at Kindu, an eastern Congolese town, where Kabila and his allies have established a base to launch a major offensive, sources have said. Meanwhile, top Ugandan security sources confirmed yesterday that the Congolese minister of state in-charge of internal affairs, Mr. Gaitan Kakuji, has fled Kinshasa, accusing the Congolese president of plotting to kill him. Sources in the Congolese Rally for Democracy (RCD) rebels said the identity of Idi Amin's son,Taban Amin, was revealed at the weekend following the arrest of four youths in Kindu who said they were from a unit under his command. The rebels said Kabila and his allies are planning a major offensive to recapture nearly half of the land held by rebels in the east and north of the country. The source said the captives said another commander of theirs is Echerigean, a commander in Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA).

To: Edward M. Zettlemoyer who wrote (9129)	10/1/1998 11:05:00 AM
From: Douglas V. Fant	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9164

Ed, Here is the Mubarak Note... News Article by AP on September 30, 1998 at 09:23:26: Mubarak: Sudan factory may have been used for chemical weapons· CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt says a Sudanese pharmaceutical factory bombed by the United States last month could have been used to make chemical weapons agents. Mubarak's comments published Wednesday in the government-run Al-Ahram newspaper are the first by an Arab leader endorsing the Clinton administration's claim that Sudan was using the plant for military purposes. "We know that this plant was for medicine but it is possible that it produced agents that are used in manufacturing chemical weapons," Mubarak was quoted as saying in an interview. He said Sudan also has another "chemical plant" close to the al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory, which was destroyed in the Aug. 20 bombing. The remarks contradict Egypt's endorsement earlier this month of an Arab League resolution supporting Sudan's claim that the plant was producing only medicines. Sudan has called for a United Nations investigation to prove its claim. The United States rejects such a probe, saying American intelligence has supplied enough evidence to back its stand. Relations between Egypt and Sudan have remained cold since Mubarak survived an assassination attempt in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in 1995. Egypt said Sudan was behind the attempt and that it is harboring the attackers. In the interview, Mubarak accused Sudan's Islamic government of terrorism and repeated claims that it harbors Egyptian and other Muslim militants who are trying to topple their governments. Mubarak did not elaborate or cite any evidence to support his statements. His comments came even as Sudanese President Oman el-Bashir, in a separate interview published Wednesday, hailed Egypt for supporting Sudan in the Arab League resolution over the pharmaceutical plant. Relations between the two countries are improving, especially after Egypt "stood with Sudan against the American aggression," el-Bashir was quoted as saying by the London-based Arabic weekly, Al-Wasat. On the assassination attempt on Mubarak, el-Bashir said it is impossible for his government to "find the accused and hand them over to concerned countries for their trial.