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To: hal jordan who wrote (24165)	2/8/1999 1:37:00 PM
From: Douglas V. Fant	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 39621

Gang, More from the Sudan.... [ Latest News From Sudan At Sudan.Net ] News Article by AFP on February 08, 1999 at 11:13:02: Bible fair attack leaves seven injured in Sudan, police deployed · KHARTOUM, Feb 7 (AFP) - Police fired shots in the air and used tear gas to break up a fight which erupted after Islamic students set fire to the venue of a Bible fair at Khartoum university, witnesses told AFP on Sunday. · Seven people were injured in the melee, which occurred Saturday. Some Moslems joined the Christian students' angry reaction to having their Bible fair set on fire. · The two sides exchanged a hail of bricks and stones, before police dispersed them. · University Vice Chairman Al Zubair Bechir Taha blamed the Christians for the unrest. · These students "insisted on organising a cultural week, with a Bible exhibition, despite the university's decision to delay the event to avoid religious friction with other students," Tahal said in a statement released Sunday, which went on to accuse the Christians of provocation. · Sudan's Islamic-dominated and Arabised north has since 1983 been at war with the Christian and animist south. The tension between the two regions dates back more than a century. ·