Sudanese president swears in new spy chief
August 17, 2009 (KHARTOUM) — The Sudanese president Omer Hassan Al-Bashir swore in yesterday the new director of the National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) and the newly established post of adviser for National Security.
Last week Al-Bashir issued a surprise decree replacing the NISS chief Salah Gosh with his deputy Mohamed Atta Al-Moula Abbas.
The presidential decree stated that Gosh was appointed an adviser without specifying the role he would be playing.
However, following the swearing in, Gosh told state media that it was his idea to establish a national security institution headed by an adviser to the president.
The adviser would oversee all government law enforcement agencies including the NISS, army and police, he said, adding that there are “many complexities” facing the country.
Gosh said that he felt that he was tasked with a “major responsibility” saying he hoped for god’s blessings in his new role.
The ex-NISS chief was considered an influential figure within the regime who handles a number of crucial dossiers including tensions with Chad, Darfur IDP camps, counter-terrorism cooperation with the US and keeping a close eye on political opposition within the country.
He helped transform the NISS into a powerful bureau that is believed to have its own well trained militia with stakes in business ventures to generate money enabling it to be self sufficient.
The reasons behind the shuffle remains unclear though some speculations in Khartoum say that Gosh’s powers became a matter of concern to Bashir.
However others say that Gosh’s failure in providing timely intelligence on the advancement of the Darfur Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) into the capital last year.
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John Migie
Sudanese president swears in new spy chief
Ok please SPLAM what are you doing the spy chief is going to destroy you tighten up your security systems.
free son
Sudanese president swears in new spy chief
Dear Jacob,
Dinka, Nuer and others are our brothers and sisters. But what you are saying is true, they have a very foolish opinions about themselves and others; yet it is not all of them but most of them are so because of the influence of their big people who teach them negative things about other tribes. It is the same case with us who are not Dinka, we are taught to respect ourselves as a tribe and despise others, and that is what Dinka are now doing. In Pibor recently they went to the river there and looted fish belonging to some Murle women, when they were asked why, they started shooting at them killing and wounding some. For us the Murle, when provoked unjustly we usually fight, but as long as you respect yourself, nothing will happen to you even if you were from our enemy tribes, because we respect any harmless foreigner. A brave people will not kill sick people in the hospital or use government positions to dominate as a tribe and murder in secret, that is the response any tribe in Southern Sudan should respond to any tribalist SPLA soldier who lost the vision of culture of liberation as Dr. John Garang was telling all of us that we did not enter the forest so that we come to loot other peoples’ ‘fish’ ‘Battania’
etc. That day, they were taught a lesson. But they refused to follow their own leader and a leader to all of us, instead they done exactly the opposite wherever they went, changing the names of the places they went to and giving them Dinka names. They let their cows destroy crops, calling it ‘just a grass!’ What does that mean? It means they are having a very foolish agenda of ‘Dinkaism’ But we must not go to DR Congo, Ethiopia or any where, let us fight them if they want, but after defeating the ‘Jalaba’ first then we, the non Dinka, and I hope the Nuer will be on our side, we will teach them a lesson. However we should see them as our own brothers who only need to be taught that majority does not mean you should abuse others when you are in a position of power or authority meant to serve all indiscriminately. Free Son does not fear the Dinka, they are the most coward, but not all of them of course, the majority are coward except the ones from Bahr Alghazal, who are brave like the rest of us.
gabriel galuak
Sudanese president swears in new spy chief
Dear all southern sudanese,
just read slowly what bashir is planing to do, the new spy chief is brought purposely to deal with you and yet you are here talking tribelsm and clansm.
please stop these kind of nonesence you are doing.