Islamic funds advance rebels in Chad

Sudan’s jihadist policy: Islamic funds advance rebels in Chad as civil war nears capital and casualties mount

BBC News reported Thursday, Jan. 31, and from prior reports, on rebels advancing in Chad, seizing a strategically important town as rebels draw within 200 miles of the capital, Ndjamena.

Allied rebel groups announced through a spokesman they took Oum Hadjer in the central region as a mechanized battalion of 300 armed vehicles advanced south.

The insurgency is known to receive major backing, including arms and hardware, from Sudan’s Islamist jihad government, and the offensive is thought to be linked to Sudan plans for renewed warfare in the Darfur region.

About 1 million have died at the hands of the Sudan Islamist Muslim regime as it seeks to follow the Shari’a code for ethnic cleansing to advance Arabian Islamic supremacy further into Africa.

The Agance France Press news agency quoted military sources as saying that government troops have been mobilized to intercept a convoy of 300 rebel vehicles that are speeding towards the capital.

"We are moving towards N'Djamena," rebel spokesman Abderaman Koulamallah confirmed to AFP, BBC News reported.

Army patrols have reportedly been increased in N'Djamena in case the rebels try to move on the capital.

The advance also threatens a 3,700-strong European Union peace force preparing to deploy to eastern Chad in the next few weeks to protect refugees from Sudan's Darfur region.

The rebels want to drive President Idriss Deby from power. Nearly two years ago a group entered N'Djamena before they were repelled.

Sudan link - Some speculate Sudan - known to be arming and equipping the Chadian rebels - may have been behind a recent threat against the foreign troop deployment plan.

They suggest Khartoum is as reluctant to see the EU deployment in Chad as it is for EU troops to intervene in Darfur, a sought-for EU initiative that Sudan quashed recently.

The two conflicts are intimately linked – Sudan is accused of supporting the Chadian rebels and the Deby regime in Chad is accused of backing some Darfuri rebel groups.

Put bluntly, while war is being waged in Chad there is little prospect for peace in Darfur.

Given they have endured 40 years of conflict already, Chadians have an air of weary inevitability about the instability, expecting it to worsen…for years to come, they said.

After all, there has never been a peaceful regime change in Chad.

The Chadian military said a convoy of rebel forces had been sighted in the area around Oum Hadjer, but there was conflicting information about its movements.

Meanwhile, army units stepped up patrols on the streets of the capital, Reuters news agency reported.
France's embassy closed their school in the city, French radio reported, after Chadian aircraft bombed rebel positions in the east near the border with Sudan on Tuesday…

The United Force for Democracy and Development led by Mahamat Nouri is the biggest rebel group. Nouri, an ageing former diplomat, defected from Deby’s regime 16 months ago.

Another rebel group is the Rally of Forces for Change headed by President Deby's uncle, Timan Erdimi, who used to run the country's cotton industry.

Like the president, he is from the Zagawa clan, which though a minority group in terms of numbers, supplies Chad's political elite.

The Chadian army is said to have low morale, its soldiers notoriously reluctant to fight - but as rebels may be more willing, they are no match for President Deby's air power. 

His recently acquired attack helicopters have conducted several air raids on rebel positions in the past week.

France already has 1,000 troops in Chad, and uses Mirage fighters to keep watch on rebel movements – information that seems to filter out to Chad’s military leaders.

The unfolding conflicts are a deadly duet sourced in Islamist Muslim jihad through Khartoum, from the headwaters of Saudi Arabia’s jihad kingpins, the teachers of Wahabist Islam.

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