Our friends at CounterTerrorismBlog report an Al Qaeda connection to the Sudanese militia group Janjaweed in a piece by journalist Douglas Farah:

A recent international intelligence document says there are credible reports that a cadre of about 15 al Qaeda operatives in Sudan are providing training to troops under the control of Janjaweed leader Musa Hilal.

Sudan has had blood on its hands from at least 1983 with its pogrom to suppress Christian expression in favor of Islamic jihad. Persecution and slavery are no stranger there, and nothing would surprise me about the regime’s activities. See a list of the most recent outrages HERE!

Douglas Farah (blog: HERE! ) has a distinguished career as a journalist, and his bio on his blog calmly recounts some of his recent history:

In March 2000, Farah was named West Africa bureau chief for The Washington Post. Based in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, he traveled and wrote extensively about the brutal civil wars in Sierra Leone and Liberia. He also wrote about the interlocking networks of agents, under the protection of governments across the region, which profited from those conflicts and the diamonds-for-weapons trade. In November 2001 Farah broke the story of al Qaeda’s ties to those diamond and weapons networks. Later that month Farah and his family were evacuated from West Africa because of threats against his life, resulting from the diamond stories. He continued to travel there and elsewhere around the world to report on the financial network of bin Laden.

Yikes! This guy isn’t writing from limited experience; he’s been out there in the trenches. Good stuff; check it out.

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