UN Force In Sudan 'Will Raise Al-Qa'eda Threat'

The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 3-2-2006 | Mike Pflanz

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UN force in Sudan 'will raise al-Qa'eda threat'

By Mike Pflanz
(Filed: 02/03/2006)

Al-Qa'eda's presence in Sudan is likely to soar if the United Nations takes over peacekeeping operations in Darfur from the current African Union force, Jan Pronk, the UN's leading envoy to Sudan, has warned.

Deploying peacekeepers drawn from Nato countries, including America, would be a "recipe for disaster" causing terrorist agents to stream in to fight a "jihad" against the blue berets, Mr Pronk said this week.

"The climate in Khartoum against the UN is heating up very strongly. There are threats, warnings of recolonisation, invasion, imperialism, conspiracy against the Arab-Islamic world," he told a news conference in New York. "There is fear in Khartoum that the transition [to a UN-led force] will be a conspiracy, which will bring Sudan in same situation as Iraq."

Intelligence reports warn that the number of al-Qa'eda terrorist agents in Sudan is already increasing.

"In these situations it is to a certain extent conjuncture [but] it would be unwise not to take the beginnings of such warnings seriously," said Mr Pronk.

Osama bin Laden lived in Sudan for several years in the early 1990s. An estimated 300,000 people have died and 2.4 million have fled their homes since civil war flared three years ago.

[Marine_Uncle]

"Intelligence reports warn that the number of al-Qa'eda terrorist agents in Sudan is already increasing."
Delta, are you ready to move in on my orders? Yessss sir!

[Wasanother]

UN and Al-Qaeda are inseparable terminologies anyway, so big deal.

[Billthedrill]

Yeh - we'd all better just sit back and let them have their nice private little genocide or things are likely to get ugly.

These guys don't want to fight the Americans, the Brits, or the Poles because they know what will happen. The other folks may have to purchase their credibility in blood. The more of the latter is the Janjaweed's, the better.

[steel_resolve]

So lets all just puss out and leave Sudan to thier patty cake genocide. Give me a break. Let's knock their dicks in the dirt!

[sure_fine]

I doubt it sores any, it will highlight the ones there more maybe

[tet68]

Blue hats under attack? Say it isn't so!

Run away, run away!

[Flavius]

threat is only as big as msm decides to support it
and support it they will

[elfman2]

Anyone know the background on this? Why's the UN taking over this?

[mhx]

Somehow I suspect this is a UN force that the US won't really feel like participating in.

[thoughtomator]

Isn't the UN a wholly owned subsidiary of Al-Qaeda? I think I'll ask Mohammad El-Baradei to clarify the issue.

[thoughtomator]

To pretend it is doing something constructive, in order to have the barest fig leaf of a justification for its existence?

[Fee]

The Christian and nonMuslim Sudanese are willing to fight, but do not have the means to. If the US backs the Southern Sudanese with first class military aid, the government forces of Kartoum and their Arab allies would be beaten. US made RPG's, AK-47, SA-7 and mines, yes, lotsa of mines and IED's.

[Rakkasan1]