From: hyder@cs.utexas.edu (Syed Irfan Hyder)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.pakistan
Subject: Prediction: Egypt to fight Sudan.  Action replay of Iraq-Iran war!
Date: 7 Jan 1993 13:34:23 -0600
Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
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Subject: Egypt asserts sovereignty over border area claimed by Sudan
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 93 21:25:40 EST

	CAIRO, Egypt (UPI) -- Egypt Wednesday made public the text of a letter
it sent to the U.N. Security Council expressing its determination not to
concede on an escalating border dispute with Sudan.
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Prediction: State dept. will prod Egypt to fight a proxy war because of 
            the danger of rising Islamic power and influence in Sudan.

We are again seeing an action replay of Iraq-Iran war. Egypt the
current puppet of USA, is being prodded by the state department
to incite and make the disputed area with Sudan, a cause for
a war. 

Here we see the action replay. Divide and rule. I guess the inheritors
of the British legacy, the USA, has not forgotten the teaching of its
mentor.

Chips are all getting together for the next war. It is becoming
more and more clear why the USA sent its forces to Somalia.
They indeed plan, well ahead!!!!



Rest of the above quoted message>

	The letter, released by the Foreign Ministry, was sent in response to
a complaint lodged in late December by Sudan over what it said was an
encroachment by the Egyptian military on Sudanese territory.
	The Sudanese claim was a reference to Egypt's deployment late last
year of military units in the triangle-shaped border area of Halayeb on
the Red Sea.
	An 1899 agreement between Egypt and Britain, then administrator of
Sudan, placed Halayeb inside the Egyptian border on the 22nd parallel.
	``The Sudanese government has lately persisted in creating a number
of...goals inconsistent with the character of relations linking the two
brotherly peoples,'' Egyptian Foreign Minister Amr Moussa said in the
letter.
	Moussa emphasized in the letter that Halayeb, a largely empty desert
land, is Egyptian territory, and that Cairo never relinquished
sovereignty over it.
	Moussa said in 1899 and 1902, the Egyptian interior minister issued
decrees calling for Sudanese civil administration in Halayeb and
Egyptian civil administration inside some Sudanese territories south of
the 22nd parallel.
	Moussa said the considerations related to nomadic tribes living
astride those border areas, but said the Egyptian decrees made it clear
they were not to change the legal status of the 22nd parallel as Egypt's
southern border.
	He stressed that Egypt never ceased to exercise sovereignty over all
territories north of that parallel since the 1899 agreement was signed.
	Although the dispute between the two countries also briefly surfaced
in 1958, it was not until Sudan granted a Canadian oil firm an
exploration concession in the area last January that the dispute flared
to such a degree.
	The two countries last year formed a joint committee to try to solve
the dispute, but no progress was made in two rounds of talks.
	Sudan angered the Egyptian government last week when it decided to
seize control of more than a dozen Egyptian schools there. It was
apparently retaliating for a series of Egyptian moves in Halayeb.
	Cairo announced a series of measures to tighten its grip on the area.
It moved to seize control of its mosques, allocated funds for
urbanization plans there and began to intensify its military and
civilian presence in the area.


Subject: Thai police officer charged with murder of Saudi businessman
	legal investigations, legal
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 93 3:16:05 PST

	BANGKOK, Thailand (UPI) -- Authorities Thursday charged a senior
police investigator with the murder of a Saudi businessman, who
mysteriously disappeared in Bangkok three years ago.
	Lt. Col. Somkid Boontanom surrendered to police but denied killing
Saudi labor broker Mohammad Al-Ruwaily, who disappeared on Feb. 2, 1990,
one day after the assassination of three Saudi diplomats in the city.
	The officer was a member of the police unit investigating the
assassinations, and news reports said Al-Ruwaily was last seen in the
custody of group of officers headed by Somkid. However, Al-Ruwaily's
body has never been recovered.
	``I totally deny the charge,'' Somkid told reporters outside the
Bangkok police station where he was charged with Al-Ruwaily's murder.
	``I'm here just to surrender to police to prove my innocence,'' he
said. ``It took me by surprise when I heard the accusation. Someone I
don't want to name told the Saudi charge d'affaires a lie about me.''
	Police reportedly are also investigating four other officers
suspected of involvement in the alleged abduction.
	The government said this week it is speeding up investigations into
Al-Ruwaily's disappearance, the killings of the three diplomats and the
theft of jewelry belonging to a Saudi prince to improve strained
relations with Riyadh over the incidents and end a virtual boycott of
Thai labor by Saudi Arabia.
	Police Director General Gen. Sawat Amornwiwat Thursday informed a
special House of Representatives committee about the progress of the
investigations into the three incidents.
	Assailants shot and killed three Saudi diplomats in two separate
incidents in Bangkok on Feb. 1, 1990.
	The next day, Al-Ruwaily, a labor broker involved in sending Thai
workers to Saudi Arabia, disappeared in Bangkok in an incident
investigators speculated was related to the assassinations.
	Saudi Arabia, upset at the lack of progress in the cases, later
stopped issuing new visas for Thai workers seeking employment in the
Middle Eastern kingdom. However, Riyadh allows Thai workers already
there to renew their visas on a case-by-case basis after returning home
during vacations.
	Investigators said they believed a foreigner suspected of
masterminding the assassinations had fled the country and have theorized
that the killings were connected either to disputes over sending Thai
workers to Saudi Arabia or to foreign-financed terrorism.
	A court two years ago dropped charges against a Thai man accused in
the attacks due to lack of evidence.
	Police are also reportedly preparing to take legal action against
officers allegedly involved in the disappearance of $16 million worth of
jewelry recovered by police after it had been stolen by a Thai worker
from the palace of a Saudi prince in 1989.


Subject: Israel to allow Red Cross visit to deportees
	social issues, civil rights
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 93 5:25:40 PST
 (complete writethru -- red cross will be allowed to visit for one day)

	JERUSALEM (UPI) -- Israel, under mounting international pressure,
agreed Thursday to let representatives of the International Committee of
the Red Cross visit the 415 Palestinians it deported to Lebanon last
month.
	``In response to the request of the International Red Cross, the
prime minister and defense minister, Yitzhak Rabin, has decided to allow
two International Red Cross representatives to reach the tent-camp of
removed members of Hamas on a one-time basis,'' said a statement by
Defense Ministry spokesman Oded Ben-Ami.
	The statement said the two would reach the deportees camp at Marj-al-
Zouhour, Lebanon by helicopter from a U.N. post in Naqoura, just north
of the Israeli-Lebanese border. It said they would conduct a one-day
survey of conditions in the camp.
	The decision marked a reversal of Israel's previous insistence that
any Red Cross relief to the deportees through Israeli-controlled
territory be accompanied by reciprocal relief through Lebanese-
controlled territory.
	Red Cross official George Comninos said the two representatives would
visit the deportees' makeshift tent-camp on Friday or Saturday.
	Most of the deportees are members of the Hamas Islamic Resistance
Front, which is committed to replacing Israel with an Islamic state.
Rabin ordered the deportation after Hamas's military wing killed a
border policeman and five soldiers in December.
	Earlier in the day, Foreign Minister Shimon Peres had said Israel
would reopen discussions about allowing the Red Cross to provide relief
for 415 Palestinian deportees when a U.N. envoy arrives.
	The envoy, Chinmaya Gharakhan, was scheduled to arrive late Thursday.
He was to meet Peres on Friday and Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin on
Sunday before heading to Lebanon.
	Peres said he hoped a new compromise could be worked out over
humanitarian aspects of the deportee issue.
	``We are treating the security council and the Red Cross in a serious
manner and I hope arrangements will be found which will lower this issue
from the agenda,'' he said.
	The remark reflected a deepening rift between Rabin, who favors a
tough stance towards relief of the deportees, and Peres, whose support
for the expulsions has been lukewarm from the outset.
	Rabin told reporters Wednesday he was unconcerned about a veiled
threat by U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali that sanctions
might be imposed if Israel does not soften its position toward the
deportees.
	``I am not worried about what the U.N. will do,'' Rabin said. ``The
government of Israel did what it had to do in order to continue the
peace process and prevent any disturbance from extremist elements.''
	Peres has argued within the Cabinet in favor of allowing Red Cross
relief to the deportees, who are stranded in a tent camp in Marj al-
Zouhour, Lebanon, just north of Israel's self-declared ``security zone''
border strip. Lebanon is refusing to allow the Red Cross to access the
deportees, saying they are Israel's responsibility.
	Gharakhan, the U.N. representative to multilateral Middle East peace
negotiations, was dispatched by Boutros-Ghali after Undersecretary-
General James Jonah struck out in an earlier effort to persuade Israel
and Lebanon to allow relief to reach the deportees.
	Lebanon turned down an Israeli compromise offer of one-time medical
aid to be sent through its self-declared ``security zone'' in exchange
for simultaneous food relief through Lebanese territory.
	In a separate development, Rabin denied published reports of secret
talks with Syria over arrangements for the Golan Heights, state-run
Israel Radio reported. During a meeting with legislator Avigdor
Kahalani, Rabin said the Washington peace talks were the only venue for
Israeli-Syrian contacts.


Subject: U.S., allies warn Iraq on missile batteries
	military
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 93 2:49:00 PST

	WASHINGTON (UPI) -- A U.S.-led coalition has warned Iraqi President
Saddam Hussein in blunt language -- remove surface-to-air missiles from a
``no-fly'' zone within 48 hours or they will be destroyed by jet
fighters.
	White House press secretary Marlin Fitzwater said the United States,
France, Britain, and Russia Wednesday had delivered ``a warning to
Saddam Hussein that his missile batteries below the 32nd parallel are a
direct violation of our no-fly zone.''
	However broadcast reports early Thursday quoted Iraqi Foreign
Minister Tariq Aziz as saying his country ``rejected'' the warning. Aziz
reportedly said the Iraqi army would go anywhere it wants within its own
borders.
	Fitzwater declined to say when the warning would be enforced. Other
officials and diplomats said Hussein had 48 hours to act on the warning
delivered to the Iraqi ambassador at the United Nations, Nizar Hamdoon.
	``He has been given an ultimatum,'' a Middle East diplomat told
United Press International under conditions of anonymity.
	``And if Saddam tries to test it he will end up with egg on his face
again.''
	The diplomat and others said Saudi Arabia, where most jet fighters
that could conduct the strikes are based, supports the demand but did
not sign it because of the risk of backlash from less moderate Arab
nations in the region.
	Hamdoon refused to reveal the contents of the message.
	``Iraq considers any military move within its territory as a
defensive act against its sovereignty,'' Hamdoon told reporters.
	Asked whether the message is considered an ultimatum, Hamdoon said, 
``yes.''
	Fitzwater said while he could not comment on the specifics, ``The
message is clear. Those batteries should not be located below the 32nd
parallel.''
	Another senior administration official, who asked not to be
identified, stopped short of characterizing the warning as an
ultimatium, adding, ``I don't know that the warning listed consequences
but it's fair to say there are consequences.
	``We want them out of there,'' he said.
	Bush had urged that Iraq be given an ultimatum to remove the missiles
from the no-fly zone, which was established to protect relief efforts
for Kurds and other Iraqi dissidents.
	Fitzwater said President Bush has been concerned about Saddam's
motives for the renewed aggression, including what he called repeated
violations by Iraq of the U.N. resolutions adopted after the Persian
Gulf War.
	Last week, U.S. fighter planes downed an Iraqi jet violating the no-
fly zone.
	``We do not intend to tolerate continued violations,'' the official
said.
	Middle Eastern diplomats intimately involved in planning and
execution of the Persian Gulf war and the warning to Hussein said Iraqi
diplomats in New York and Washington were told in writing that jet
fighters will strike the surface-to-air missile sites near the allied-
patrolled ``no-fly'' zone unless they are removed within 48 hours.
	``The warning says if they don't take them out, the administration
will take them out with air strikes.''
	Hamdoon refused to say whether the four countries had given his
government a deadline to remove the missiles.
	``Iraq has no intention of escalating the crisis and the no-fly zone
has nothing to do with U.N. resolutions,'' he said.
	``No-fly'' zones were imposed in the northern part of Iraq, above the
32nd parallel, and in the southern part, below the 36th parallel, by
victorious allies in the Persian Gulf war in an effort to protect Kurds
and Shiites who had rebelled against Hussein.




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