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00:07V/O Dr Hassan Abdullah Turabi electioneering + chanting Not the catchiest of election slogans.......In the Way of Allah with Hassan Abdullah.That's Dr Hassan Abdullah Turabi.....the most influential man in Sudan.

00:22 V/O Dr. Hassan Abdullah Turabi, Sudanese Islamic Leader Well the whole Islamic world now witnesses a phenomenon of spiritual revival, sometimes also intellectual revival of traditional Islamic thought.
Of course new phenomenon are always faced with some suspicion, people are the enemies of what they don't know, of darkness.

00.39V/O Electioneering & chanting Sudan first declared itself an Islamic republic in the early eighties. Seven years ago a military coup brought an even more hard-line, fundamentalist government to power. These are the first elections since then.Dr Turabi stood as an ordinary parliamentary delegate in a constituency for the South of Khartoum, the Sudanese capital.

01.03 SYNCH Dr. Turabi Campaigning There are just two candidates now in your constituency, is that right?Yes the third candidate has subsided completely.Yes, he's accused you of intimidation I think hasn't he?Ah normally you have to find a pretext - Turabi again.But between you and the one remaining candidate you think you've got a clear lead?Oh yes I mean when he stood as a candidate he didn't know who was standing against him.

01:32V/O Turabi Electioneering Pity the candidate up against Dr Turabi....a man who's never held formal office but is considered the spiritual leader of Sudan - just as Ayatollah Khomeini was in Iran - the guiding hand behind a religious revolution to create a militant Islamic state.

01.54V/O Religious pix Dr Turabi believes the call to prayer is a call for political change.

02:08V/O MAP And that Sudan, the largest country in Africa, is ideally placed to inspire its African and Middle eastern neighbours.

02:19V/O PDF Soldiers train Since Sudan's Islamic coup the country has been transformed into a military fiefdom, with one of Africas largest armies. More sinister, many Sudanese army camps like this one are also accused of harbouring foreign soldiers, Islamic extremists.

02:43V/O Sudanese Parliament In Khartoum the Sudanese government is keeping a low profile as an international storm brews over the Sudan. The regime is accused of spreading Islam through violence. Today the United Nations is poised to bring sanctions against the Sudan at any time.

03:02V/O United Nations The UN has become concerned over new evidence of Sudan's links to international terrorism. The attempted assasination of Egypt's President Mubarak provided the most damning evidence.

03:17 SYNCH Madelaine AllbrightUS Ambassador to the United Nations Mr President, the terrorist attack on President Hosni Mubarak on June 26th 1995 was carried out by Egyptian nationals who had used Khartoum as a base of operations for more than two years while planning this act. If it had succeeded it would have undermined the peace and stability of the North African and Middle East region.

03:42 SYNCH Ali Osman TahaSudan Foreign Minister I think Sudan has always been receptive and ready to look into whatever evidence is put up, and that would be in the interest of all parties. And it's a real problem with the US that no real evidence has been put up to the government of Sudan up to this moment.

04:03V/O Sudan pretties + MUSIC The Sudan regards American accusations of Islamic terrorism as part of an unjust smear campaign. Meanwhile the West continues to supspect that hidden in this vast country are military training camps for Muslim extremists from all over the world, dedicated not just to the overthrow of their own governments - but also to attacking other countries they consider the enemy of Islam.

04:34V/O Hard cut to US street pix TRAFFIC ACT...BEEP BEEPChief among those enemies -The Great Satan - America - with New York a prime target for Jihad - holy war.

04:47V/O Paul Bremer, Former USA Ambassador for Counter Terrorism Set Up For three years Paul Bremer was America's roving Ambassador for Counter Terrorism.He links Sudan to that other hotbed of fundamentalism Iran.

04:58 SYNCH Paul Bremer, Former USA Ambassador for Counter Terrorism The relationship between Iran and Sudan you can describe as a marriage of two evils. You have in both countries fundamentalist Islamic governments dedicated to spreading fundamentalist Islam throughout their region. And from the Sudanese point of view to have a friend in the form of Iran, money support, moral support, political support is very useful. From the Iranian point of view Sudan gives them a base of operations for their subversion and indeed terrorism.

05:26V/O New York And terrorism aimed at the heart of America.One foiled plot involved a series of bombs - bridges - tunnels - skyscrapers - exploding within minutes of each other.It would have been a day of unprecedented carnage.

05:45V/O Home video tape of New York bombers planning plot Ringleader Siddiq Ali driving These pictures were shot by the gang themselves as they videotaped their route.And the Americans say the evidence proves Sudan's official involvement. The ringleader, Siddiq Ali, a Sudanese, is driving through the river tunnel to Manhattan, planning where to place the bomb.

06:10 SUBTITLES TO BE ADDEDover ARABIC FROM TAPE Bomb Plot Ringleader Siddiq Ali and FBI Infiltrator Emad Salem Siddiq Ali:It is a very big mistake to attract the policeman's attention. They feel something strange going on. They may suspect you have something to hide - you may have drugs. Here is the police kiosk.Emad Salem:What about you. Do you have drugs?Siddiq Ali:No but I have disasters, something worse....(laughter)

06:35V/O Emad Salem Still and WIRETAP PIX Siddiq Ali's passenger was an Egyptian, called Emad Salem. He claimed to be an explosives expert.In fact he was an FBI infiltrator.There are hours of tapes he secretly recorded. We obtained the transcripts.
06:49ACTOR'S VOICE TO BE ADDED WIRETAP PIX VOICE 3The basic thing here is killing the infidels....this is not a licence to kill the children, if they are killed of course there's no other choice....

06:57V/O Driving through Lincoln Tunnel They needed to place their bomb at the centre of the tunnel, where the wall through to the water above was thinnest. Their codeword for bomb is fairytale.

07:09SUBTITLES TO BE ADDED over ARABIC FROM TAPE Siddiq Ali and Emad Salem Where do you want to put the fairytale? We want to concentrate. Stop here to videotape this lane.The fairytale will be put here in the middle of this lane. It all depends on whether the lane is closed or not. So it will be placed in the middle of the right lane.

07:33 People walking, traffic sounds

07:39V/O Queens Garage The FBI also hid cameras inside the New York garage where the gang later prepared the bombs.

07:46V/O Surveillance tape mixing explosives Other Sudanese were recruited. They mixed a witches brew of petrol, chemicals and explosives.In court they claimed they'd volunteered to help the Bosnian Muslims and this was part of their training.From Khartoum Dr Turabi accuses the Americans of entrapment.

08:06 SYNCH Dr Turabi But they were stirring up explosives, there's pictures of them doing that?Oh it was that Egyptian witness, that Egyptian spy, I mean who was at the FBI, I mean agent actually who gave them all those and was going to train them to go to Bosnia to fight over there.But you don't sit in a garage and stir up great gallons of explosives?Of course you do if you want to of course to have the experience before you go to Bosnia and do it, of course you sit somewhere, of course normally, I mean that's quite normal.

08:33 SYNCH Paul Bremer We can see a very emotional
reaction to Oklahoma city and it would obviously have been several times greater had this plot gone through. It would have led to, presuming we would have found a foreign hand in it, very strong demands for clear action, including military action, against a foreign country.

08:50V/O UN shots One of the targets was to be the United Nations building. And it's here that official Sudanese involvement is clearest.

09:02V/O UN garage The plan was to load a car with explosives and park it in the underground garage - which was only used by UN personnel.

09:14ACTOR'S VOICE TO BE ADDED Un garage VOICE 3There are some people we know at the United Nations.VOICE 4Fine how are they going to let us in with the van?VOICE 3I am responsible for the entry card clearance, that means the car, plate number and everything. So we enter without inspection.......We take their own car, the Embassy car.

09:30ACTOR'S VOICE TO BE ADDED WIRETAP PIX VOICE 4Do the
brothers at the Sudanese Embassy know the target?VOICE 3Yes God willing, there is somebody who is going to help me.VOICE 4A driver there?VOICE 3No a high level, very high level.

09:40V/O Siraj Yussef, Press Attaché at Sudanese mission to the UN That high level person helping the bombers to get into the UN, was Siraj Yussef, officially the Sudanese press attaché, but in fact a senior Sudanese intelligence officer.

09:56 SYNCH Dr Turabi Oh no, he isn't a senior security officer, he is only a diplomat, he has always been a diplomat, most of his time he was an ex-patriot outside the Sudan.But we've spoken to another Sudanese intelligence officer who worked with him and he knows him well?Oh it's an absolute lie.

10:09V/O Adbel Aziz Jaffar loads tape It's the total truth says Adbel Aziz Jaffar - a former intelligence officer in Sudan, now in exile in Egypt. We met him in Cairo and asked him about the Sudanese Press Attaché, Siraj, the man seen on this videotape. He confirmed that although Siraj, was indeed Press Attache, he is also a high ranking Sudanese intelligence official, involved with Islamic terrorists.

10:40 SYNCH Adbel Aziz Jaffar (Arabic) Do you know this man?VOICE 2Yes I know him, I know him very well, he's Major Mohammed Siraj. He was an officer in the general Sudanese Security service. He was working directly under our administration. He was responsible for the special and secret work and all secret work in the Directors office.

11:04V/O Court + Blind Egyptian Cleric Sheik Abdul Rahman Earlier this year ten people were jailed in connection with the failed plot to bomb the UN headquarters and the Lincoln Tunnel. This man, now also in an American jail, was their inspiration. He's Sheik Abdul Rahman, a blind Egyptian cleric and a figurehead for the terrorist group Gamaa Al Islamiya. Before coming to America he was based in Sudan.

11:30V/O Manhattan Pix Just after the arrests America put Sudan on it's official blacklist of countries accused of sponsoring terrorism. Prosecutors have said the involvement of Sudanese Embassy staff clearly implicated the Khartoum government in the New York plots.... as did the defendants themselves.

11:53ACTOR'S VOICE TO BE ADDED WIRETAP PIX Our relationship is very, very, very strong with the Sudanese government and with the Islamic leadership of Sudan, thanks be to God that I have a direct contact with the Islamic leaders themselves.

12:05V/O Addis Ababa airport A terrorist attack closer to Sudan's own borders also shows the Khartoum connection.Last summer heads of government flew into the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, for a meeting of the Organisation of African Unity.

12:24V/O Reconstruction + music In a house specially chosen to overlook the airport a gang was waiting.Watching for one special arrival.President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt left the airport for the conference hall.With gunmen posted along the road.Their colleagues in a second safe house - ready to move.

12:31V/O Reconstruction President Mubarak is no stranger to the threat of Islamic terrorism in his own country. This time, in Ethiopia, he himself was the target.... The armed gang set off determined to intercept him.

13:07V/O Ethiopian TV archive of immediate aftermath Their bullets pierced the bodywork but not the armour plating.Two of the terrorists were killed.President Mubarak's driver turned round and headed back for the airport - the President flew straight back to Cairo to an emotional press conference.

13:34 Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak at Press Conference Suddenly I found a blue van blocking the road and somebody just flat on the ground. A machine gun started, for me it was shocking, what's that? And then I realised that there were bullets coming through our car. It is an armoured car, so I was not afraid that anything could come in. And who, Sir, do you think was responsible for this act?I cannot tell you exactly what nationality but they are not, doesn't look like Ethiopians or blacks.

14:11V/O Airport plane leaving The first clue came within hours. The Ethiopians say a Sudan Airways flight delayed departure from Addis until one of the terrorists jumped onboard.The two countries had been on good terms so Ethiopia's Prime Minister was careful before he spoke.

14:28 SYNCH Ethiopian Prime Minister, Meles Zenawi We'd got clear indications within two days that the Sudanese were involved. But I personally made sure there was no room for judgement, that the evidence was overwhelming before we made any statement to the effect that the Sudan was involved.

14:55V/O Ethiopian TV archive of 1st July shoot out More of that evidence came five days after the assassination attempt.The Ethiopians raided a house on the outskirts of Addis Ababa.BOOM BANGThree more of the terrorists were killed. The last three were captured alive, two of them driving towards the Sudanese border.

15:23V/O Captured Prisoners The Ethiopian authorities allowed us to see the three prisoners. But we were told that because the investigation was still going on,we were forbidden to question them. They're all Egyptians, members of the outlawed Islamic group, Gamaa al Islamiya.But Ethiopia says behind them was the hand of Sudan.

15:54 SYNCH Prime Minister Zenawi They unfortunately are not the top people but what they know indicates that their base was in the Sudan, that their leader was in the Sudan, that the plan came to them from the Sudan, that their safe houses were in Khartoum, that they had a "farm", in quotation marks, where they did their training outside of Khartoum.

16:27V/O Weapons suitcase The Ethiopians also captured kalashnikov rifles, hand guns and anti- tank rockets. If they'd managed to fire these Mubarak's car would have been blown apart.The investigators are especially interested in a briefcase packed with high explosives and the metal wrappings they came in.

16:50 SYNCH Prime Minister Zenawi That too was one of the clues that led us to identify the Western company which was involved in the manufacturing of the equipment and the buyer happens to be the Sudanese security establishment.

17:05V/O Weapons/prisoners The journalists discovered that an American team of FBI investigators has been to Ethiopia. They've traced some of the equipment used by the terrorists back to a firm in Chicago. And proved that equipment was originally sold to Sudanese State Security.

17:28 SYNCH Zenawi We know on the basis of the evidence that the security establishment at the very highest level was involved.........Who do you mean, up to who?Up to Turabi himself.

17:41 SYNCH Dr Turabi Let me ask you as a direct question, were you involved?I mean it's like a criminal interrogation, sometimes I am so...I have so much dignity that I don't want to reply but out of courtesy I'll say No, I was not involved. I am....do you think I am here only just to, I mean to go into detailing programmes for someone to assassinate. I mean what would it, difference would it make to assassinate a president, another president would take over.

18:11V/O Ethiopian flags and Parliament Ethiopia went to the UN to demand Sudan hand over three men - the terrorist who fled back to Khartoum and two others, believed to be the masterminds.

18:21 SYNCH Zenawi If they surrender these three people then their terrorist friends would not trust them anymore and therefore they would have to cut their links with their terrorist friends. So by surrendering these three people they would indicate to us and to the world that they are prepared to cut their links with their terrorist friends.

18:37V/O UN Security Council The UN gave the Khartoum government sixty days to hand over the three. That deadline ran out at the end of March.....with no sign of the Sudan government handing over the wanted men.

18:52 SYNCH Ali Osman Taha, Sudanese Foreign Minister We have taken all necessary steps to investigate the whereabouts of these suspects.So you have looked for them?If they are to be found- we are still in the process. We have many indications that they might have left the country.

19:10 SYNCH Dr Turabi People don't normally mention the fact that they were Egyptians of course, they were Egyptians and not Sudanese. But Egyptains who say they were trained here.We don't have in our tradition, we have never had in our whole historical tradition a single case of political assassination, but the Egyptians, oh this is their tradition actually.

19:28V/O Sudan pix In order to punish Sudan the UN has now called for a downscaling of Sudanese embassies around the world. Further sanctions, perhaps a ban on flights into Sudan, or the withdrawal of diplomatic staff, will follow if Sudan does not act. The Ethiopians until now had a close relationship with Sudan.

19:50 SYNCH Zenawi They have misused our goodwill towards them.And what's your reaction to that?Well if someone is capable of stabbing his friend in the back that is clear indication as to the moral standing of that particular person or entity.

20:10V/O Sudan River Khartoum is where the white and blue Nile meet, before flowing north through the length of Egypt.
Cairo river shots And it's the current of fundamentalism washing in from Sudan that most worries their Northern neighbour.

20:31V/O Egypt g/vs Egypt is already a timebomb of religious and social conflict. Centuries of Islamic tradition and a mainly Muslim population under a government committed to a non-religious, democracy with economic and defence links to the West.To overthrow this government - to make Egypt turn its back on what many consider corrupting, outside influences, would be a triumph for Islamic militants.Egypt is at the top of their hit list.

21:10V/O Across Egypt Islamic hard line organisations already have a vast support base. This is a clinic run by the Muslim Brotherhood. They operate a network of schools, hospitals and other welfare institutions for a population that is disillusioned with its corrupt government.

21:36 SYNCH Dr Assam el RianMuslim Brotherhood Doctor Islamic organisations are closer to the people than the government. They provide what they are in need of, and they are faster in supplying services to the people.

21:54V/O Prayers Islamists consider Egypt ripe for the taking. The terrorists had planned to immediately follow the attack on President Mubarak with blasts across Egypt. If successful the plan may well have brought the Egyptian government to its knees.

22:13 Sugar Cane fields

22:23V/O Camel Market This is southern Egypt, traditional Egypt - the fundamentalist heartland - where militant Islamic groups - like Gammaa al Ismaliya - who were behind the attack on President Mubarak - have their strongest support.

22:45V/O Mosque Members of Gamaa were also responsible for the recent attack on a tourist bus which killed 18. There have also been other attacks on Westerners - embarrassing the Egyptian government and jeopardising the tourist industry.As a result the authorities don't allow journalists into Upper Egypt, too sensitive they say, or rather too many people ready to express their support for Sudanese trained Islamic rebels.

23:14V/O Security men Two van loads of armed Egyptian security men stopped the film.They wanted to know exactly what and who we'd filmed and we were then told to leave the area.But the security forces here have bigger problems than the presence of a camera crew.

23:41V/O Camels Between here and the Sudanese border is nothing but desert, criss-crossed by camel trails - impossible to police.These have always been smuggling routes from Sudan - the latest import guns and explosives.

24:06V/O Kom Ombo In a warehouse here police found a huge quantity of weapons and explosives.The atmosphere in the town is still tense with armed guards around the police station. The raid was two days before the attempt to kill President Mubarak and police say those they arrested were part of the same plot.Their role - to spark an armed Islamic revolution and spread chaos in the wake of his death.

24:33V/O Prison Their televised confessions from prison may be unsurprising but they're also consistent - they were armed and trained in Sudan.

24:46SUBTITLES TO BE ADDED over ARABIC ON TV SCREEN Confessions on TV screenMuhammed Ali Al Sharqawi Where did you stay in Khartoum?In Khartoum itself, members of the group met me at the airport and then I went to a house in al Gabah street, I stayed there for a while and then went to the farm.

25:02SUBTITLES TO BE ADDED over ARABIC ON TV SCREEN Ali Qasim Sayf We went to Sudan and we arrived at the places where our group was. Then we went to a farm where we were specially to carry out particular exercises.What are these exercises?How to forge official documents and how to make explosives.

25:24SUBTITLES TO BE ADDED over ARABIC ON TV SCREEN Al Sharqawi Regarding the sinful attack on President Mubarak in Addis Ababa were there members of that terrorist group inside the camp?I read afterwards in the newspapers that they carried out this operation.Did you see them in the farm?Yes I saw only two whom I recognised.

25:55V/O Photos of Umar al-Masri and Mohammed Siraj And he named one of the men who was killed during the assassination attempt.And the man who fled back to Khartoum courtesy of Sudan Airways.

26:04V/O Prison Egypt has already arrested and executed dozens of alleged Islamic militants. But as fast as the security forces catch them, their replacements are trained - in the Sudan.

26:17 SYNCH Mubarak Al Mahdi,Former Sudanese Minister of the Interior Destruction is very easy, especially with weapons and bombs and so on. Those groups are not strong enough to destroy countries, or to take over countries but they definitely could create a lot of destruction and instability in a number of countries, especially in countries in the region.

26:44 Sudanese Military display.(Al Mahdi v/o) Turabi has formed his organisation, the Arab Islamic Congress and he claims leadership for the whole Islamic movement and so he had to show himself actually helpful to the movement. So he started training people and advancing them into nearby neighbouring countries. Into Egypt, into Eritrea, into Uganda, into Kenya.


27:19 SYNCH Paul Bremer, Former USA Ambassador for Counter Terrorism After all Turabi has issued public statements praising Hamas attacks, Hamas car bombs in Israel that killed 22-25 people. This isn't exactly a person who strikes me as peaceful.

27:32V/O Link The rumours that Sudan's training Islamic terrorists in secret camps have been around for years.....with no proof.A film crew set off to find that hard evidence.

27:44V/O Eritrea pictures + MUSIC Eritrea is Sudan's neighbour to the East.After decades civil war to win independence first from Italy, then from Ethiopia, Eritrea is struggling to create its own government, free from all foreign interference.And a non-religious government to allow the population - half Christian, Half Muslim to live in harmony.That's attracted the many Sudanese exiles seeking asylum from their own hard-line Islamic government in Khartoum.

28:22V/O Mohammed Al Arabab, Former Sudanese Engineering Minister Set Up Mohammed Al Arabab is probably the most senior Sudanese politician to defect.In an exclusive interview he's given us the first real proof of terrorist training camps inside Sudan.As Engineering Minister in regional government his job was to find and establish suitable sites.

28:50 SYNCH Mohammed Al Arabab, Former Sudanese Engineering Minister (ARABIC) I can confirm to the world that there are terrorist camps in Sudan to export terrorism to neighbouring and other foreign countries. This happens under the supervision of the state, what I call state terrorism.

29:06V/O Al Arabab on balcony He told us the names of fourteen camps he'd visited and what he'd seen there.

29:14 SYNCH Al Arabab There's training on light weapons, like guns, like Kalashnikovs and rocket propelled grenades.There is training in urban warfare and other operations like suicide attacks and explosives. There is special training for an assassination squad.

29:47V/O Suba Farms The first camps were hidden on farms, south of Khartoum in a rural area called Suba. The ex-intelligence officer we met in Cairo confirmed that he too had been involved in setting them up.

30:02 SYNCH Adbel Aziz JaffarFormer Sudanese Security Official The administration of the Sudanese security service asked me to buy farms in Suba to be used as safe houses for the service, so I bought several farms.
SYNCH Jaffar The important thing is that it should be far from the main street and people.

30:24V/O Farms The camps were run by state security - even the police weren't told about them.So when rumours began circulating about foreigners and weapons, police raided several farms.Details of the operation leaked to the Egyptian intelligence services.

30:41 SYNCH Ahmed Rajab, Former Senior Intelligence Officer in Sudan They found arms, ammunition, a lot of money in hard currency, in dollars, Saudi royal, Eygptian pounds and some Egyptian passports, Egyptian identity cards, Egyptian driving licence and stamps for these documents.

31:07V/O Locked gates Six Egyptians - members of the banned group Gamaa Al Ismaliya - were arrested. But when the Head of Sudanese intelligence, General Nafy, found out he intervened.

31:16 SYNCH Rajab He was very furious and he took his car and went immediately to the police station and he took all these people in some other car with him.He drove away with them?Yes, yes he took them on the spot and told them that this is a case for the security and the police has not to interfere in it.And did the investigation continue?No.What happened?It stopped.

31:44V/O Abu Eissa walking in Sudanese opposition figures like Farouk Abu Eissa have their own intelligence sources. Chairman of the Arab Lawyers Union in Cairo and a leading human rights activist, he's kept a careful eye on the growth of the camps.

32:02 SYNCH Farouk Abu Eissa, Chairman of the Arab Lawyers Union in Cairo AROUND DESK You see in 1993 we started with having only one, two, three, four, five, six. Now in 96 on the River Nile there is Akbara town and near Akbara town they have a camp for the Nahda, the Tunisian fundamentalists.

32:35V/O Looking at Map He reckons there are now at least thirty camps dotted around Sudan.
Abu Eissa WITH MAP Further down we have the ... which is North of Khartoum. There is a camp and it is for the Libyans, the Libyan fundamentalists.Also we have Qaz Rajab for the Eritrean Jihad.So they have chosen this place to make them near the border.

32:56V/O MAP Sudan and Eritrea Sudan is a perfectly placed sanctuary for Muslim militants from Eritrea who want to overthrow their own government.

33:00V/O Border shots The Eritrean Jihad group has terrorised remote border areas, attacking schools and clinics, mining roads - killing dozens of people.Then returned to bases across the border.

33:18V/O Saleh Kekia, Eritrean Deputy Foreign Minster Set Up Eritrea's deputy foreign minister claims the terrorists are armed and trained in Sudan. After repeated protests to the Khartoum Government Eritrea cut off diplomatic relations with Sudan.

33:32 SYNCH Saleh Kekia, Eritrean Deputy Foreign Minster They want to spread Islam but what they are spreading is not Islam , it is a political agenda which is covered under the veil of Islam. They want to destabilise the whole region, especially the whole of Africa is the region which they think could be changed to fundamentalist regimes within a short time.

33:58V/O Refugee camps Al Qadarif - in Eastern Sudan just across the border from Eritrea.The refugee camps here are a fertile recruiting ground for Islamic terrorists.Half a million Eritreans who fled from the long running civil war won't go back even though there's peace because they're Muslim.

34:23V/O Youngsters talking Everyone told us they wanted to see the current Eritrean government overthrown and replaced with an Islamic regime.

34:31V/O Youngsters gathered round Young men swore they'd fight for that and wanted to join the Jihad group. Some claimed they'd already been shown how to use a Kalashnikov.UN workers confirmed that Eritrean Jihad fighters had been recruiting in these camps.

34:49 SYNCH Saleh Kekia, Eritrea Deputy Foreign Minster They try to recruit some factions from these countries in the Sudan, train them militarily, finance them and they give them moral support. They give them, or they create for them, relations with international fundamentalists so that they could go back to their country and destabilise their countries. That is their idea. And this they are doing in Eritrea, they are doing the same in Ethiopia, in Kenya, and in Uganda. And in the North, of course, you have Egypt. So the plan is a total plan for the whole region.

35:34V/O Al Qadarif was one of the areas Mohammed Al Arabab named as a location for a training camp.And he said that harbouring Eritrean terrorists was just part of Sudan's wider strategy.

35:47 Women PDF Displayv/o Dr Turabi And here in the Sudan there is a whole movement for Islam. Thousands and thousands of young, they don't mind fighting, they go and die. I mean they are graduates, doctors of Law, of engineering. They don't mind doing anything. I mean for Islam.

36:15V/O Militaryand Koran On coming to power Sudan's military government hijacked the resources of the state and put them into the provision of arms and massive military expansion. They rewrote the constitution and forcefully instituted a harsh Islamic model with an emphasis on the military and Islamic expansion.

36:52V/O Publishing House At Sudan Now they publish the only English magazine. Kamal El Din is the editor and must comply with harsh censorship laws. He denies that Sudan has become a platform for international terrorism.

37:07 SYNCH Kamal El DinMagazine Editor In that sense the Sudan is not a platform, it is rather a refuge, a territory for refuge for these Muslims after all these years of oppression. Of course we are not able to accommodate all of the Muslims in the world. But at least if they feel that there is a home... you can stay away from home when you know there is home somewhere else. And the psychological existence of the Sudan in that sense is very essential for Muslims around the world.

37:32V/O Friendship Hall, Khartoum A strategy developed here at Friendship Hall in Khartoum.Every year Sudan hosts a huge Islamic conference. Al Arabab went in ninety three.

37:40V/O PAIC Conference People came not just from the traditional Muslim nations but from America and Western Europe. One British speaker railed against the international banking system for charging interest - a practise forbidden under Islam.

37:57 SYNCH English speaker at PAIC Conference When is a terrorist not a terrorist? When he is a banker.

38:04V/O Dr Turabi at conference The conference is one of Dr Turabi's proudest creations - Sudan as the centre of the Islamic world. He welcomed everyone.Also there groups like Hamas, Hezbollah, Abu Nidal - terrorists in Western eyes.Mohammed Al Arabab says away from the main hall was a more sinister agenda.....how to spread Islam by force...first to neighbouring countries in Africa, like Eritrea, then further afield.

38:42 SYNCH Al Arabab I observed that there were secret meetings which take place on the third floor in office number 7.

38:55 SYNCH Al Arabab The extremists want to overthrow the regimes in five middle eastern countries. They believe the Middle East and the Gulf, Saudi and neighbouring areas will take time so the tactic is to work through charity organisations and gain new recruits. The person responsible for this in the Saudi and Gulf area is Usama Bin Laden who is currently living in Khartoum.

39:25V/O Saudi Arabian millionaire, Usama Bin Laden Still Usama Bin Laden is a Saudi millionaire, stripped of his nationality for his outspoken criticism of his own government. In Sudan he's well known for his charity work.

39:35V/O Driving shots around Bin Laden home in Khartoum It's apparently won him great influence with the government.... for a public benefactor he lives under remarkably high security. He appears to be allowed his own private army to guard his home and office.

39:53V/O Armed guard Although when the TV crew appeared they hurried to hide the kalashnikovs.

40:00V/O Car conversation+ Hebrew document An aide told us Bin Laden was abroad. He certainly has extensive overseas connections. A document from Israeli intelligence estimates he's spent a hundred million dollars backing Islamic extremism.The British Embassy in Khartoum recently protested about his presence in Sudan to Dr Turabi.

40:23 SYNCH Dr Turabi It was a foreign office senior, I mean who came here.From the British Embassy in Sudan.?With the British Ambassador.And did they bring you any evidence to support their allegation?Oh not really.

40:36 SYNCH Dr Turabi What did they want you to do, did they want you to kick him out of Sudan?We told them if you are going to receive him in England, he doesn't mind going to England, I mean joining with Masari over there.

40:49V/O Exclusion order against Usama Bin Laden That's a reference to another Saudi Britain tried - and failed - to deport.The crew discovered that in January the Home Secretary issued an exclusion order against Bin Laden saying his presence was not conducive to the public good.

41:05V/O Usama Bin Laden Still Meanwhile he remains an honoured guest in Sudan.

41:11V/O Airport passes And he's not the only one. We obtained airport passes issued to known Islamic militants from a number of countries to by-pass the immigration formalities when they arrive in Sudan. The documents read - please don't stamp the passports of these guests of state security.

41:35 SYNCH Rajab So who else is getting military training in Sudan that you knew about?Some elements from Tunisia, from Algeria and we have names of these people. They arranged the arrival secretly to the airport of Khartoum.

42:04V/O Donald Peterson, Former USA Ambassador to Sudan Set Up Confirmation of that came from seven thousand miles away.The New England snow a welcome change for Donald Peterson after years of Khartoum heat, as America's Ambassador there.He retired last year with no doubts that Sudan is harbouring Islamic terrorists.

42:23 SYNCH Donald Peterson,Former USA Ambassador to Sudan Well let me just take one example, a camp of People's Defence Force, a camp outside of Omdurman, across the river from Khartoum. At one point we knew there had been Palestinians training there, small arms training that sort of thing, we knew this for a fact.

42:51V/O Desert shot That camp was here at Merkhiyat and the information came from the Israeli's. They captured a member of the Palestinian terrorist group, Hamas and he admitted being trained here.It was also one of the camps visited by Al Arabab.

43:08 SYNCH Al Arabab These camps host a group of foreigners, specifically the Afghan Arabs, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah, and the Iranian Revolutionary Party. These camps are all around the capital Khartoum. The main camp, which is the biggest, is called Merkhiyat.

43:40V/O Merkhiyat/PDF And this is Merkhiyat. Or at least the part of it the Sudanese authorities allowed the journalists to film.They say it's a camp for the Popular Defence Force - volunteers who come here for a few weeks of basic training and are then sent to back up the regular police and army elsewhere in Sudan.

45:05 V/O GRAPHIC OF MOUNTAINS American military maps back up the Sudanese defector's description of a hidden part of Merkhiat on the other side of the hills.

44:14 V/O Al Arabab The Popular Defence Force camp which is in the middle is just for camouflage. But the real terrorists' camp is behind it at the end of the mountain.

44:29V/O Merkhiyat And when our film crew asked to go beyond the hill of the PDF camp - they were refused.Al Arabab says not only is the terrorist training camp there but the Sudanese leadership knows it's there.

44:40 SYNCH Al Arabab I saw Dr Hassan Turabi. He came late one evening and gave a lecture to the extremists in the camp, the camp made specially for terrorists at Merkhiyat.

45:00 SYNCH Al Arabab I can confirm that Sudan has become the biggest centre of terrorism in the world. All the Islamic groups have now moved from their old safe havens to Sudan, making it the principal and foremost exporter of international terrorism.

45:30V/O Dr Turabi electioneering Dr Turabi dismisses that as part of the Western war against Islam.He won his seat comfortably and has now been chosen as Speaker of the Sudanese Parliament.But outside Sudan his rhetoric sounds hollow.

45:50 SYNCH Dr Turabi People all over Africa and all over the Arab world, I mean they just love the Sudan, it's a country that's asserting independence and they just adore the Sudan because the world balance of justice and order - East and West - is now actually spoilt completely - there is no East. So the West now especially America wants to become the lord of the world.

46:14 SYNCH Paul Bremer Safehavens are extremely important to a terrorist, you have to put yourself in the mentality of a terrorist, who is by definition usually rather paranoid, and for good reasons... and who lives in a very secretive world, where he's under constant pressure, in fear of somebody knocking on the door at night and coming through and arresting him or killing him. And if you can operate from a safe base where you can get training, weapons, rest and recouperation, psychological rest, that is very important.

46:41 SYNCH Rajab Hamas is here among other Arab and non-Arab elements, who have thought it comfortable and convenient to take human refuge in Sudan, and it's an international tradition.

47:00 SYNCH Prime Minister Zenawi If the Sudanese people want to have a certain orientation, Islamic or otherwise, it's their business. But if they want to impose that on us it becomes our business.

47:11 V/O DR TURABI + car drives off + Sunset shot I mean, Sudan is still asserting its independence. For a poor country like Sudan, one would admire the Sudan for doing it actually.

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