SUDAN: ARAB CAUSE HURT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-01601R000700090001-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 3, 2001
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: March 3, 1973
• Content Type: NSPR

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By STANLEY '.M,ISLER
NAIROBI (LAT) - The Arab terrorist execution of two
American diplomats In Khartoum appears certain to drive
President Jafaar El Numairl of the Sudan and his people
away from the Arab cause--a cause that has sometimes at-
tracted them and at other times repelled them in the past.
The assassinations are sure to enrage Numairi, his gov-
ernment and many northern Sudanese, most of whom have
been caught for years in a conflict of cultural identity be-
tween the Arab and African worlds.
Although the Black Sep In July, Numairl resumed
tember guerrilla group has
insisted it has no quarrel
With the Sudan, the choice of
Khartotum to stat ge the
murders was no coincidence.
In Arab eyes, Numairi has
strayed far from Arab ortho-
doxy in the last year. The
fact that Sudan even had an
American ambassador to
capture and to kill is one
proof of this, in the view of
Arab militants.
Before Numairi came to
power in :1969, he was an ag-
gressively militant, anti-
Zionist Arab nationalist. But
his ardor has cooled since
then, and now the terrorist
violence in Khariotum prob-
ably will extinguish it entirely.
As if to magnify the insult
to Numbairi, the Palestinian
commandos executed the
diplomats on the eve of na-
tional celebrations of the first
anniversary of the treaty
ending the civil war that
ravaged the southern Sudan
for 17 years.
The war was all about the
conuict
of the Sudanese. The south-
erners-Black Africans and
either pagan or Christinn--
were rebelling against the
northern Sudanese, whom
they considered too Muslim
and too Arab.
There has been growing
Arab impatience with the
policies of Numeaairi In the
last year.
diplomatic relations with the
U. S. They had been broken
off by the Sudanese In 1967,
following the lead of the
Arab countries, to protest al-
leged American support of
Israel in the six-day war.
The reopening of relations-
coil flicted with Orthodox
Arab foreign policy. It pro-
yoked anger in the press of
other Arab countries, and
prominent Arabists resigned
from Numairi's government.
In September, Arabs be-
came even more incensed at
Numairi when he refused to
allow Libyan transport planes
with troops to cross Sudan-
ese airspace on their way to
Uganda to help Gen. Odi
Amin fight off an invasion
of exiles from Tanzania.
At that time, Col. Muam-
mar EI Kadafi, the ruler of
Libya, accused Numairi of
being under the influence of
CIA agents In his Cabinet.
i11Ee then, Sudan and the
Aral countries, especially
Egypt, have exchanged barbs
and insults continually, And
Nuirairi has made it clear,
In a dramatic change of
policy, that lie will not bring
t.hc Sudan into the federation
of Aral republics with)
Egypt, Libya and Syria.
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and installed a pro-Egyptian
{ regime.
RadlioTripoiireported
that the 11 men would be,
sentenced to death. It quot
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rested plotters will soon, be
`brought to trial and we shall"
-have no mercy on the:
traitors."
The Egyptian news agency
Isaid that the plot was fi--
nanced and armed by the
e The. Libyan government
-said Friday night that it had
crushed a plot mastermind-'
ed by a nephew of ousted
King Idris, according to a
dispatch from Egypt's Mid-
dle East News Agency.
The dispatch from Tripoli,
Libya's capital, said that con-
fessions of 11 men arrested
there-including two former
prime ministers-described
a 5,000-man force massed in
the neighboring African re-
Public of Chad for an inva-