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- <text>
- <title>
- Sudan: Global Terrorism
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- <article>
- <hdr>
- Patterns Of Global Terrorism: 1991
- African Overview: Sudan
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> In the past year Sudan has enhanced its relations with
- international terrorist groups, including the Abu Nidal
- organization (ANO). Sudan has maintained ties to state sponsors
- of terrorism such as Libya and Iraq and has improved its
- relations with Iran. The National Islamic Front (NIF), under the
- domination of the government of Sudanese President General
- Bashir and has been the main advocate of closer relations with
- radical groups and their sponsors. The NIF has organized its own
- militia, the People's Defense Force, modeled after the Iranian
- Revolutionary Guards Corps. Sudan was one of the few states to
- support Iraq in the Persian Gulf War. Ties to Libya and Iran
- also were maintained, as evidenced by the visit to Sudan last
- July by Colonel Qadhafi and the visit last December by Iranian
- President Rafsanjani to Khartoum.
- </p>
- <p> Terrorist and militant Moslem groups also have increased
- their presence in Sudan. The government reportedly has allowed
- terrorist groups to train on its territory and has offered Sudan
- as a sanctuary to terrorist organizations. In October, the
- Government of Tunisia recalled its Ambassador from Khartoum to
- protest Sudanese renewal of a diplomatic passport for the leader
- of Tunisia's An Nahda party, a group that Tunisia considers a
- terrorist organization. Sudan also played host to members of
- radical groups, such as the Islamic Resistance Movement (HAMAS),
- and allowed them to hold public meetings in Sudan.
- </p>
- <p>Source: United States Department of State, April 1992.
- </p>
- </body>
- </article>
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