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Gardod on June 12, against Sudanese
army troops. On July 19th, the SPLA
announced that it had killed hundreds of
Sudanese army troops in another major
battle in the South.
Rather than negotiate with the
SPLA, Swareddahab decided to reacti-
vate a joint ministerial cooperation com-
mittee proposed between Ethiopia and
Sudan in 1982. The ministerial commit-
tee never actually met during the reign of
Numeiri, but Swareddahab and Ethio-
pian head of state Col.Mengistu
announced at the OAU summit that it
would convene «immediately to finally
reestablish normal relations.»
Part of the normalization negotia-
tions is a proposal for an end to
Ethiopia’s support for the SPLA and
Sudan’s support for Eritrean and Tig-
rean movements. Sudanese Minister of
Foreign Affairs told AFP on July 24th,
«We are in the process of negotiating
the departure of the Eritreans from
Sudan and other opposition groups. We
have stopped all forms of military assis-
tance to the Eritreans such as the arms
traffic from our territory. We are doing
our best so that our country does not
serve as a base against the Ethiopian
government.» But the Ethiopian govern-
ment has not indicated that it will stop its
support for the SPLA. It is unlikely to do
so. Besides, the SPLA’s existence is not
dependent on external support; it has a
popular mass base, controls wide reg-
ions of southern Sudan and has rela-
tively little need for external financing.
Both internal pressures and the
necessity of taking a clear line on reg-
ional and international alliances will
mean that the ruling Sudanese military
council and Swareddahab himself can-
not continue to play both sides of the
fence for long. Sudan is in a revolutio-
nary situation against the backdrop of 9
million Sudanese facing _ starvation,
armed resistance in the South and a
mobilized political mass movement in
Khartoum. @
Terror Attacks in Kuwait
Who is behind the terror in
Kuwait?
Kuwait was exposed to a terrorist
attack on July 11th in which dozens of
people were killed or wounded. The time
bombs exploded in two cafes on Gulf
Street and in the Salmiya district when
they were jammed with families. The
latest terrorist action was preceded in
May by a car bomb explosion, also in
Gulf Street, while a car carrying the Emir
of Kuwait was passing. The Emir was
slightly injured in the blast; 5 people
were killed and twelve others wounded.
Why doesn’t the Kuwaiti gov-
ernment name the terrorists?
The latest terrorist action came only
one day after the end of a meeting of
Arab Foreign Ministers in the Gulf Coop-
eration Council convened in the City of
Abha in Saudi Arabia. During the meet-
ing, Saudi Arabia exerted all its efforts to
convince Kuwait to join the GCC Joint
Security Pact which the Kuwaiti govern-
ment has refused many times before
since the pact contradicts the principles
of the Kuwaiti constitution.
The explosion in the public cafes
occurred three days after the Kuwaiti
parliament accepted the suggestion of
its speaker to halt the financial support
given to Jordan, Syria and the PLO as
part of the steadfastness assistance
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agreed upon at the Riyadh Arab Summit
Conference in 1978. The reason for
stopping the steadfastness aid was
because it has not been used to confront
the Zionist enemy, but is used against
the Palestinian people and to implement
a capitulatory solution embodied in the
Hussein-Arafat agreement.
Kuwaiti public and official reactions
to the July explosions ‘were charac-
terized by a great deal of wisdom. Offi-
cials and members of parliament
warned against making nervous and
hasty decisions. This reflected con-
sciousness of the aims of the terrorists to
destabilize Kuwait and force the govern-
ment to make concessions in internal
and foreign policy.
The official investigation of the ex-
plosions has not resulted in identifying
the perpetrators or the parties behind
these agents. Kuwaiti political leaders
and local journalists have hinted that the
source of these terrorist actions lies no
further than neighboring countries and
other Arab countries in the region. There
are a number of regional capitals that
have an interest in destabilizing Kuwait,
since Kuwait has taken a non-aligned
position toward struggles between the
ruling regimes in the area. Kuwait has
taken a positive stand in regards to the
Arab-Israeli conflict and the Palestinian
question. This stand contradicts with the
interests of many local and international
forces that seek to place the Arab-Israeli
conflict and the Palestinian struggle
within the framework of US and Israeli
schemes.
There is no specific evidence to
reveal the guilty parties. Butin searching
for the forces behind the recent terrorist
action and the ones which preceded it,
we must begin with the question of who
has direct or indirect interests in such
acts. There are many forces that have
an interest in destabilizing Kuwait and
turning it away from its current political
line.
Saudi Arabia has repeatedly pres-
sured Kuwait to adhere to Saudi regional
and international policies. Saudi Arabia
is one of the possible criminals. Saudi
Arabia would like to liquidate the little
democracy that exists in Kuwait. Saudi
Arabia wants to terminate Kuwaiti
opposition to the GCC Joint Security
Pact.
The two sides in the lran-lraq war
are also possible criminals. Iran and Iraq
both seek Kuwaiti alignment with their
respective sides in the Gulf war. Kuwait
has been threatened by both sides for
the past five years. Iraqi and Iranian se-
curity networks have instigated many
security incidents in Kuwait.
In regards to the most recent explo-
sions, itis possible to say that it is not just
the regimes in the immediate vicinity of
the Kuwaiti borders who have been
harmed by Kuwaiti foreign policy. There
are other possible criminals.
After the attempt to assassinate the
Emir of Kuwait, parliament member
Ahmed Rabai stated in al Watan news-
paper that official investigations of ter-
rorist acts committed in Kuwait rarely
identify the real criminals or the parties
that back them and finance them. The
Kuwaiti government usually closes the
file without declaring the results of these
investigations publicly so that Kuwaiti
relations with neighboring countries will
not be exposed to danger and so that
retaliatory acts by neighboring countries
will be avoided. Rabai has called upon
government institutions to dispense with
their fear. He has declared that the pre-
sent government policy will only lead to
encouragement of the terrorists and the
parties who stand behind them to com-
mit even more criminal acts against the
Kuwaiti regime and the Kuwaiti people.
Kuwait will continue to suffer from
«brotherly» terror for along time to come
unless the words of the Kuwaiti member
of parliament find their echo in official
Kuwaiti institutions. - هو جزء من
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