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| More Info From Strategypage About GSPC Captives |
| 2004-05-15 |
| EFL; nothing really new, it just talks a little more about the politics of the situation, and some speculation about what the US might be doing. This link won’t be good over any sort of long time span, since strategypage doesn’t have permanent links. The MDJT, a tribe based group that has been fighting the Chad government since 1998, is the sole remaining rebel group in Chad. The MDJT resistance is currently fairly low key, with only a few major battles in all of 2003. The Chad government is hoping that the withdrawal of Libyan support for MDJT will cause the rebels to make a deal with the government... The Chad government cooperated with the United States in tracking down and destroying the GSPC group, and now expects to take the lead in any negotiations with the MDJT. But the MDJT wants some benefit for turning over the GSPC captives. It’s possible that the US has sent commandoes and special operations intelligence forces into northern Chad to help the Chad government capture the MDJT fighters holding the GSPC men. Something has to be done, lest al Qaeda, which has long been associated with GSPC, raise a suitable ransom for the GSPC captives. The main question that comes to my mind is how close were the events outlined to the part of Sudan where the ethnic cleansing is taking place? How much of that is screwing up Al Qaeda, and causing tribes they thought they’d bought off to turn on them? |
| Posted by:Phil Fraering |