Cairo ROSE AL-YUSUF (in Arabic) pg. 12-13 — [Report by Yusuf al-Sharif]

[Excerpts] The U.S. Administration’s enthusiasm for military intervention in Somalia raises many questions and doubts. The humanitarian motives to save the Somalis from the scourge of hunger, tribal wars, and gangs looting international relief aid, especially after the failure of the UN mission there are known and declared. But skepticism over the political intentions and strategic objectives of the operation remains. The U.S. decision is still shrouded with mystery, doubts, and various interpretations. [passage omitted]

Sudan and Iran explicitly opposed the U.S. intervention in Somalia Lieutenant General ‘Umar al-Bashir, chairman of Sudan’s Military Council, termed the UN decision as “unjust, a return of old colonialism to the region, and a conspiracy to justify interference in Sudan’s internal affairs and abort the country’s successes and achievements.” [passage omitted]

Observers noted that as soon as the Pentagon expressed readiness to send U.S. troops with the agreement of President-elect Bill Clinton–a ranking Iranian delegation headed by Judiciary Head Mohammad Yazdi arrived in Khartoum. The delegation consisted of 22 members representing the intelligence, security and military services, economic experts, and diplomats. [passage omitted]

Diplomatic sources in Khartoum disclosed that Yazdi and Sudanese Islamic Front leader Hasan al-Turabi agreed to hold an international Islamic conference in the Sudanese capital for 19 fundamentalist groups that are politically, ideologically, and financially linked with the Islamic revolution in Iran. [passage omitted]

Recently the Sudanese Islamic Front set up a committee headed by the front’s second in command, ‘Uthman Muhammad Taha, and including Sudanese and Iranian leaders in charge of security agencies and spreading the call of Islam.

The committee will follow developments in the American military intervention in Somalia and draft plans to resist it through the Somali “Islamic Union” [Al-Ittihad Al- Islami] organization, which is supervised and financed by Sudan and Iran, and the “Somali Revolutionary Guard”, which is supervised by Iranian intelligence officer ‘Ali Menshawi.

The purpose is to turn Somalia into a trap and a quagmire for the U.S. forces through a guerrilla war against them.

_{FBIS-NES-92-244, 18 Dec. 1992, p. 9}