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To: Douglas V. Fant who wrote (277)	5/9/1999 1:33:00 AM
From: Razorbak	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1713

Rebel Military Advances - Real or Just Propaganda? The problem with these "fax" wars is that you never can tell whether the rebel military advances are real or just propaganda. Take Juba for example... June 1997 #reply-1660092 - "NIF Government is wobbling like a woozy Mike Tyson" #reply-1667313 - "See you in Bentiu...." July 1997 #reply-1699272 - "blocking barge supply traffic to... Juba" #reply-1737615 - "We are moving around Juba and encircling it" #reply-1751006 - "now encircling Juba" #reply-1751770 - "shut all barge traffic to Juba" August 1997 #reply-1936841 - "beleaguered government garrison in Juba" October 1997 #reply-2422182 - "re-grouping for another assault on Juba" #reply-2422712 - "Sudan Rebels Say Ready to Capture Key Town" #reply-2427151 - "Thousands Flee Southern Sudan Capital" #reply-2490665 - "SPLA... consolidating its positions around Juba" November 1997 #reply-2640252 - "The Rebels Are Now Besieging Juba" #reply-2659559 - "The SPLA threatens the southern capital Juba" #reply-2679174 - "SPLA troops... tightened the noose around... Juba" #reply-2701253 - "The SPLA threatens the southern capital Juba" January 1998 #reply-3312239 - "rebel movement is preparing an assault on Juba" April 1998 #reply-4009257 - "Juba is now completely surrounded by SPLA Forces" #reply-4052905 - "Renegades to Relocate to Juba" June 1998 #reply-5041749 - "distract attention from... goal of occupying Juba" September 1998 #reply-5881046 - "drive to obliterate all the defences around Juba" April 1999 sudan.net - "Juba advance slows"

To: Douglas V. Fant who wrote (277)	5/9/1999 1:16:00 PM
From: LARRY LARSON	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1713

Hi Kids- Confused fighting/reporting? Calm reported restored in oil-rich Sudan state By Alfred Taban KHARTOUM, May 9 (Reuters) - Calm has returned to Sudan's southern state of Unity after clashes involving government troops and militias fighting for control of its oilfields, a commander of a militia allied to Khartoum said on Sunday. No independent account was immediately available of last week's confused fighting in the area which is central to the Islamist government's plans to start exporting crude oil next month. Francis Gatlouk, deputy operations commander for warlord Paulino Matip, told Reuters clashes had stopped after a militia force, coordinating secretly with the main rebel Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA), had been driven out of Ler, the state's second largest town, on Thursday. Gatlouk said the force led by Tito Byel had kidnapped four Chinese oil workers but released them the next day. ''The four Chinese and several Sudanese were seized by Byel at the start of the fighting on May 2 at Koch, about 50 km (30 miles) from (the state capital of) Bentiu,'' he said. Gatlouk said Byel's force had taken 10 oil company vehicles from Koch to ferry SPLA fighters to front lines. The trucks were also returned to the oil firms within a day. He said Byel's fighters were now in the Mayen Dit area 55 km (35 miles) south of the town and in neighbouring Rumbek state. On Sunday Khartoum newspapers quoted armed forces spokesman Lieutenant-General Mohamed Osman Yassin as saying the government was fully in control in Unity state. The government is devoting considerable resources to a project to complete an oil pipeline from Unity to Port Sudan on the Red Sea to allow exports to begin by June 30. Gatlouk said the fighting began when Byel's men, ostensibly part of a pro-government militia alliance known as the South Sudan Defence Forces (SSDF), attacked Matip's forces at Bau, oil workers at Koch and government troops in Ler last Sunday in a coordinated attempt to seize the oilfields with SPLA help. ''Byel has been working with the SPLA since the Wunlit conference of Febuary and March this year and one of the secret agreements of the conference was the seizure of the oilfields,'' Gatlouk said. He was referring to a conference that took place in SPLA-held territory and called for hostilities between the Dinka and Nuer, the south's largest tribes, to cease. No comment from the SSDF or SPLA was immediately available. Copyright 1999 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of Reuters content, including by framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters. Reuters shall not be liable for any errors or delays in the content, or for any actions taken in reliance thereon. All active hyperlinks have been inserted by AOL.