TEXT- Bin Laden rejects Sudan’s CPA, calls for Jihad in Darfur
April 23, 2006 (DOHA) — In a new audiotape aired today, Osama bin Laden urged militants get ready to fight western forces in Sudan’s troubled region of Darfur; he also rejected the peace deal signed last year to end north- south war.
Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden urged his followers to prepare for a long war against Western would-be occupiers in Sudan’s Darfur region, according to an audiotape attributed to him and aired on Sunday.
Bin Laden, also described the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) signed by the Sudanese government and the former rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Movement on 9 January 2005 as “an unjust agreement that allows the south to break away after six years from signing the deal”.
Following are translated excerpts from the audio tape related to Sudan, and broadcast by Al Jazeera television:
Sudan’s Comprehensive Peace Agreement
After “the Ottoman state was divided into tens of countries … Britain came to separate Sudan from Egypt and returned again to Sudan trying to separate its south so it formed an army from the people of the south and supported it with money, weapons and expertise and directed them to demand secession from Sudan, then the United States adopted this army with moral and material support through its international tools such as the United Nations and applied pressure on the government of Sudan to sign an unjust agreement that allows the south to break away after six years from signing the deal.”
“Let (Sudanese President Omar Hassan) al-Bashir and (U.S. President George W. Bush) Bush know that this agreement is not worth the ink in which it was written with and does not oblige us in the least.
Call for Long-term War in Sudan’s Darfur
Not satisfied with all these intrigues and crimes, America moved on to stir up more strife. One of the areas of the most serious strife was western Sudan, where some differences among the tribesmen were used to trigger a ferocious war among them that consumes everything in its path, in preparation for sending crusader forces to occupy the region and steal its oil under the cover of maintaining security there. It is a continuous Zionist-crusader war against the Muslims.
In this respect, I urge the mujahidin and their supporters in general, and in Sudan and the surrounding areas, including the Arabian Peninsula, in particular, to prepare all that is necessary to fight a long-term war against the crusader thieves in western Sudan. Our aim is clear: defending Islam, its people and land, and not defending the Khartoum government although there could be common interests between us. Our difference with it [the Sudanese government] is great. Suffice it to say that it failed to implement the shari’ah and relinquished the south.
I urge the mujahidin to acquaint themselves with the territory and tribes of the Province of Darfur and the areas surrounding it. It has been said that the people who know a certain territory can conquer it, and that those who do not know a certain territory are conquered by it. It is worth noting that the region is about to see a season in which rains are occasionally abundant, which will impede movement and block dirt roads, which is one of the main reasons that delayed the (Western) occupation by another six months.
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