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'Genocide in Darfur' (by Samuel Totten, Eric Markusen) Racist ideology plays an important part of the story, as it has in the history of other twentieth century genocides. And the psychology of "genocide" has become familiar through the sorry repetition of genocidal acts that the last century has witnessed. In 1987, Libya used the northwestern Darfur corner as a backdoor to attack Chad. It had equipped and sent out the so-called Arab legion, an Arab supremacist militia, to pursue Arab expansion in the mineral-rich sub-Saharan regions it bordered and to drive out the African tribes. Libya was not orchestrating a...

Excerpt - CAIRO, Sept 29 (Reuters) - All 11 Western tourists and eight Egyptians taken hostage by gunmen in a remote border area of Egypt more than a week ago have been freed and are in good health, state-run Egyptian television said on Monday. ~ snip ~

SAN DIEGO -- San Diego Republican Congressman, Duncan Hunter's name was popping up in blogs and cable news shows Thursday. Hunter's staff was reported to have contacted the U.S. embassy in the African country of Chad to see if Hunter could distribute food at a refugee camp. Hunter also wanted to hunt Wildebeest in Chad and distribute the meat to refugees. The embassy staff reportedly said they were happy to hear about the Congressman's interest in helping refugees, but as far as hunting goes, there are no Wildebeest to hunt in Chad and the government there does not permit the...

UP-DATE: Steve Godbold - Chad Thursday, July 24, 2008 Steve Godbold Released For release: July 25, 2008 The Evangelical Alliance Mission (TEAM) is very pleased to announce the release of Cash Stephen Godbold, a missionary held captive in northern Chad for more than nine months. Godbold was released by his captors in Chad on Thursday evening, July 24th. He was released near the town of Bardai in northern Chad, and is presently a guest of local officials in Bardai. Arrangements are in process to send an aircraft to Bardai to evacuate Godbold to N'Djamena. From there he will travel to...

June 15, 2008 (WASHINGTON) – The leader of Darfur Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) lashed out at Sudan ruling party accusing it of not being serious about seeking peace in the war ravaged region. “We entered into repeated negotiations rounds; more than 10 in Abuja, Nigeria [2006]. But all these attempts on ceasefire and reaching peace failed due to the stubbornness of the Sudanese government” Khalil Ibrahim said in an interview aired yesterday on the Al-Jazeera Arabic language television. “Therefore the hope for reaching peace in Darfur and all over Sudan has faded. The government is totally unconcerned with what...

Iran, Iraq and other hot spots topped discussions between U.S. President George Bush and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi Thursday in Rome. "We did have a wideranging discussion," Bush said during a news conference. "I appreciate very much the fact that Italy is meeting international obligations." Bush noted that U.S. citizens probably didn't realize how many Italian troops were deployed around the world, including 8,700 troops in areas such as Kosovo and Chad. "We talked about Iraq, how Iraq is changing for the better, how people are beginning to realize the blessings of a free and peaceful society," Bush said,...

For Immediate Release April 30, 2008 The faith-based organization TEAM, located in the United States, announces that it has arranged for an aircraft operated by a medical non-governmental organization in Chad to fly to Bardai to receive Steve Godbold, who has been detained by rebel forces since October 10, 2007. TEAM also offers to allow a representative of the international media to accompany this flight to observe the process. On April 28, 2008 the President of the MDJT, Mr. Choua Dazi, stated in an interview published by Liberté sans frontières and posted at www.dabio.net that Mr. Godbold is “free” and...

Afghanistan to Ask NATO for Bigger Army Afghan officials will go to the NATO summit in Romania Thursday with a request: pay to increase our national Army by 40 percent. A bigger Army, Afghan officials argue, will allow the US and other coalition members to scale back in the coming years. This appeal comes amid pleas from the US and Canada for other NATO members to commit more to the Afghanistan mission, which many analysts say has floundered over the past year for lack of resources and a coherent strategy. France is expected to contribute another 1,000 forces and...

Former governor outlines '21st century conservative' agendaMIAMI (FBW)-Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush could barely contain his amusement at the Democrat Party's Florida and Michigan delegate dilemma in its tightly contested presidential race, saying it's "ironic beyond belief" that the party which accused him and other Republicans of suppressing the vote in the 2000 Florida presidential election re-count now "got themselves in a hole" of "their own doing." "My thoughts are filled with irony that every vote should count," Bush said with a broad smile. "I mean this brings back memories of hyperbole and anger, mock anger .... It was a...

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On this morning’s conference call, Sen. Obama’s campaign manager repeated deep reservations about using the mail-in option in both Michigan and Florida. Yesterday, an Obama campaign strategist highlighted what he thought were potential problems: "Obviously there are concerns about a mail-in vote. I mean, there are concerns about eligibility, ballot security," [Axelrod] said during a conference call. [AP, 12/11/08] Even Sen. Obama is now expressing hesitation to endorse a vote by mail system. The Associated Press reported: Obama...said in an interview with CNN that he had reservations about a vote by mail. "I think there's some concerns in terms of...

DAKAR (Reuters) - Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir and Chadian President Idriss Deby signed a peace agreement on Thursday designed to end cross-border rebel attacks in a region which includes Sudan's conflict-ravaged Darfur area. The signing, witnessed by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) head Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, also aims to revive a string of past pacts that have failed to end fighting on both sides of the Chad-Sudan border. "We solemnly pledge to ban the activities of all armed groups and to prevent the use of our respective territories to destabilize one or other of...

Sudanese forces have clashed with troops from the European Union Force in Chad after they crossed the border into the Darfur region, Sudan says. A Sudanese soldier and a civilian were killed during the exchange of fire, the Sudanese army says. The EU Force (Eufor) says it was trying to recover one of its vehicles which had accidentally strayed into Sudan. A French soldier who was in the vehicle is still missing, and France has asked for Sudan's help to find him. The French soldier's disappearance is the first serious incident experienced by the force. Another soldier was injured -...

N'DJAMENA, Oct 18 (Reuters) - A U.S. evangelical church missionary working on a U.S. government-backed development project in northern Chad has been kidnapped by rebels, Chadian and U.S. officials said on Thursday. "The governor of the northern BET region has told me that an American priest has been kidnapped in the Tibesti (mountains) by remaining members of the MDJT rebel movement," Secretary of State for the Interior Abderamane Djasnabaille told Reuters. "The rebels took his vehicle and they are holding him at Zoumri," he added. A leader of Chad's Evangelical Church, Pastor Ngardei Bako, identified the kidnapped American as Steve...

Muslim in-laws seize his wife, kill his young son. ZALANGA, Nigeria, February 7 (Compass Direct News) – A little over a year after becoming a Christian in Ngudungudu, Chad in December 1995, Jeje Nehamiah Baki left the town to meet up with his nomadic family in the wilderness. His wife had already returned to her parents and their nomadic lifestyle, and Baki, a former Muslim and nomadic Fulani of the Bororo dialect in Chad, was looking forward to reuniting with her and their two children. But he said his father-in-law, having learned of his conversion, seized his wife and would...

NAIROBI, Kenya As combat raged in Chad's capital last weekend, U.S. Embassy staffers were busily shredding sensitive documents in the ambassador's office when a rocket blasted through a wall, roared across the room and burst out the opposite wall before exploding. No one was injured in the blast, or when two stray artillery shells hit two residences inside the embassy compound, the evacuated public affairs officer, Solomon Atayi, says in an email letter written Thursday to colleagues and friends. The Associated Press obtained a copy Friday, and Atayi also posted it on the State Department's blog site. U.S. officials had...

The United Nations has evacuated most of its staff from Chad because of worries for their safety, Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday. "I am alarmed by the deteriorating security situation in the capital, N'Djamena, and elsewhere," he said. "We can no longer guarantee the safety and security of U.N. staff in Chad and we have evacuated, with the help of the French Government, most of the personnel into neighboring countries, in Cameroon and Gabon." Ban said he was leaving in place a small number of U.N. peacekeepers and other personnel in Chad's capital, and that the U.N. would do...

Chad's future Taliban enters capital while the West is asleep The Transatlantic Conservative 3 February 2008 With the so called "rebel" attack on N'Djamena it becomes increasingly clear that the jihadist government and militia of Sudan expand their operations to neighboring Chad. Saudi-Arabia, Syria and Iran back the hardliners in Khartoum. The racist genocidal ethnic cleansing policies of the Arab muslim tribes in power in the Sudanese capital will can't be stopped by UN or EUFOR intervention troops anymore. Their only possible base of operations against the jihadis from Sudan WAS Chad. Chad is another piece of the map of...

France given green light to intervene in Chad By Sebastien Berger in Addis Ababa Last Updated: 2:04am GMT 05/02/2008 The United Nations appeared to give the green light to France last night to intervene militarily to defend the president of Chad from rebels attempting to oust him. France, the former colonial power, has around 1,500 troops in Chad. French soldiers helps foreign residents to evacuate in the Chadian capital of N'Djamena In a carefully worded statement, the UN Security Council called upon member states "to provide support in conformity with the United Nations charter as requested by the government of...

The battle on the streets of N'Djamena, Chad's capital is a vivid demonstration of how a war which began in Sudan's western region of Darfur has now spread across Africa to engulf a neighbouring state.

More flee Chad as fighting rages PARIS, France (CNN) -- Chadian forces backed by tanks and helicopter gunships on Sunday battled rebels who claim to have trapped the president in his palace as more foreign nationals prepared to flee the north African country. The deployment of a planned European peacekeeping mission to Chad and neighboring Central African Republic has also been suspended, France's defense minister said in Paris, according to French media reports. Between 2,000 and 3,000 rebel soldiers armed with rifles were moving around N'Djamena on Sunday in pickup trucks as the Chadian troops used helicopters against them, said...

Fresh fighting has broken out between government and rebel forces in Chad's capital N'Djamena, reports say. Heavy weapons fire was heard near the palace where President Idriss Deby is said to be holding out. Rebels seized large parts of the city on Saturday, but military action subsided overnight as both sides claimed to be in control. Nearly 400 French and other foreign citizens were evacuated overnight to the Gabonese capital Libreville. The arriving evacuees appeared 'harrassed but happy', an AFP journalist in Libreville said. Several hundred others are gathered in designated areas in N'Djamena guarded by French troops. Witnesses heard...

N'DJAMENA (Reuters) - Chadian rebels surrounded the presidential palace in N'Djamena on Saturday after storming into the capital, and France began evacuating French and foreign nationals from the city. After a day of fierce clashes in the streets of N'Djamena, there was speculation about the whereabouts of President Idriss Deby, but at least two of his ministers said he remained inside the palace complex at the head of loyal troops. The official Libyan news agency JANA reported one of the leaders of the rebels, Mahamat Nouri, had agreed to a ceasefire and negotiations with government forces following mediation by Libyan...

Chadian forces are beating back rebels who had advanced towards the presidential palace in the capital N'Djamena, the French military says. Thousands of rebels advanced into the city on Saturday and said they had surrounded the palace. But Chad's ambassador to Ethiopia said the city had not fallen and President Idriss Deby was "fine" in his palace. The French Foreign Ministry condemned the attempt to "seize power by force", blaming "armed forces from outside". The rebels began their advance on N'Djamena from near Chad's eastern border with Sudan earlier this week. Both the Chadian and Sudanese governments support rebels in...

via translation - ALERT - Chad: Rebels entered N'Djamena N'DJAMENA - Rebels entered Saturday in N'Djamena in the east and south of the city, according to witnesses, while automatic weapons fire were heard from the city center, has been a journalist ' AFP.

Excerpt - Rebels in Chad are advancing from the east of the country towards the capital, N'Djamena, after seizing a strategic central town, officials say. Armed forces have gone to intercept a column of 300 rebel vehicles, advancing along the main road to the capital. Security has been stepped up in N'Djamena, where most children have been sent home from school. The rebels want to drive the president from power. Two years ago they reached the capital before being repelled. ~ snip ~

Chad warplanes have bombed two villages in Sudan's Darfur province, leaving six people dead, according to the UN. The raids took place on Sunday near the West Darfur capital, Geneina - the second such strikes reported in a week. The air strikes were reported a day after Chad's President Idris Deby said that he would send troops to destroy rebel Chadian bases in Darfur. Sudan and Chad accuse each other of backing rebel groups, destabilising the region around their common border. A Chad government spokesman has denied that its forces have crossed the border. The head of the joint African...

Military officials have approved a European peacekeeping force in Chad and the Central African Republic. The contingent will have the task of protecting refugees from Darfur and people displaced by internal fighting. EU ministers will still have to rubber-stamp the 3,500-strong force in time for a launch in early February. Diplomats said that a shortfall of helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft had been solved by further contributions from France, Belgium and Poland. Repeated delays The mission has been delayed several times since November 2007, but a French government spokesman said on Thursday that President Nicolas Sarkozy had authorised additional resources to...

ABIDJAN, Dec 6 (Reuters) - European Union peacekeepers should start deploying in eastern Chad late this month or early next year but the force is lacking some key equipment, French Defence Minister Herve Morin said on Thursday. An EU force of up to 3,700 soldiers, around half of them French, is due to deploy to the border region with Sudan's Darfur on a U.N. mission to protect several hundred thousand refugees and the aid workers caring for them. But some EU countries have so far refused to make up a shortfall in vital resources, meaning the launch of the mission,...

France plays down Chad war claim Mr Sarkozy says the situation in Sudan and Chad is very complex French President Nicolas Sarkozy has said a declaration of war against foreign troops by rebels will not jeopardise an EU mission to Chad. Anti-government rebels have declared "a state of belligerence against the French army or any other foreign forces on national territory". They have accused French military planes of passing intelligence to the Chadian government. Austria has also said the rebel declaration will not stop the mission. The EU force, about half of which will be made up of French troops,...

Rebels in Chad have said they are at war with the French-led European Union peacekeeping force which is due to be deployed in the coming weeks. The rebels accused French military planes of flying over their positions and passing intelligence to the government during this week's fighting. France, the former colonial power, retains a military base in Chad. The EU force is to be sent to the area near the border with Sudan's Darfur, to protect refugees and aid workers. Chad says that Sudan is behind this week's attacks, because it did not want any western forces on its border....

via translation - ALERT-Chad: the rebels in "state of belligerency" with France LIBREVILLE - Chadian rebels of the Union of Forces for Democracy and Development (UFDD) reported Friday to be "state of belligerency" with the French army, or any other foreign contingent, while a European force is expected to deploy in eastern Chad.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy travelled to Chad on Sunday to bring home seven Europeans jailed over a charity's attempt to fly some 100 children to France. A Chadian judge ordered the release of three French journalists and four Spanish air hostesses who were among 17 Europeans accused of attempted kidnapping in the case. The foreigners were jailed along with four Chadians after the French Zoe's Ark charity was stopped from flying 103 children on October 25 from eastern Chad to France where they were to be placed in the care of host families. After holding talks with President Idriss Deby...

ABECHE, Chad (AFP) - Sixteen Europeans being held in Chad after a charity tried to fly more than 100 children from the central African nation to France may face charges, a Chadian minister said Saturday. (Advertisement) It would be up to a judge to "determine the responsibility of each (crew member)," Justice Minister Albert Pahimi Padacke told reporters in Chad's main eastern city of Abeche. In a separate telephone interview with AFP, Padacke said a meeting was taking place to decide whether to formally charge them. Nine French nationals, including some members of the charity Arche de Zoe (Zoe's Ark)...

Defence minister says Poland will send soldiers to Chad WARSAW (Reuters) - Polish soldiers will join a proposed European Union mission in Chad aimed at protecting refugees trapped in the violent region bordering Darfur, Defence Minister Aleksander Szczyglo said on Thursday. Under a proposal from U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, the EU force would protect civilians, humanitarian workers and the U.N. mission in Chad, which is facing an influx of tens of thousands of refugees from neighbouring Darfur. The force -- seen by EU diplomats as comprising 1,500-3,000 troops -- would also work in the Central African Republic to try to...

Is the United States out of the intervention business for a while? With two difficult wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and a divided public, the conventional answer is that it will be a long time before any American president, Democrat or Republican, again dispatches troops into conflict overseas. As usual, though, the conventional wisdom is almost certainly wrong. Throughout its history, America has frequently used force on behalf of principles and tangible interests, and that is not likely to change. Despite the problems and setbacks in Iraq and Afghanistan, America remains the world's dominant military power, spends half a trillion...

EU gears up for Chad military mission The EU is preparing to send up to 3,000 troops to Chad by the end of the year to protect refugees from the conflict in neighbouring Darfur. Next Monday (23 July) EU foreign ministers are expected to agree to step up planning for the mission which is the brainchild of French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner. Under the planned mission, the EU would provide up to 3,000 military personnel to protect 230,000 refugees from the conflict in Darfur and 170,000 Chadians displaced by the fighting between the Janjaweed militia, which is backed by the...

Derived from both diabolical motives: Arab Racism & Islamic Apartheid Leading government cleric, author of country's religious curriculum: Saudi Sheik: 'Slavery is a part of Islam'http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=35518 Islam's Black slaveshttp://www.salon.com/books/int/2001/04/05/segal/ Libya, Slaveryhttp://www.mathaba.net/sudan/comment.htm Who was the real Slave Master?http://answering-islam.org.uk/Bailey/real_slave_master.html Arabs and Slave Tradehttp://www.answering-islam.org/ReachOut/slavetrade Goverment Sponsored Genocide in Sudanhttp://www.religioustolerance.org/geno_su.htm Slavery in Sudanhttp://members.aol.com/casmasalc/newpage8.htm Slavery in Sudan - hamlinehttp://www.hamline.edu/cla/academics/global_studies/Slavery_2004/Sudan.html Slavery in Mauritaniahttp://members.aol.com/casmasalc/mauritan.htm Slave Girls and Their Rights in Islamhttp://www.faithfreedom.org/Articles/SStephan/slavegirls.htm Darfur slaughter rooted in Arab-African slaveryhttp://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2001970382_slavery02.html Islam, Racism, Slavery...http://www.geocities.com/hammihanirani/islam.html ARAB MASTERS-BLACK SLAVEShttp://www.raceandhistory.com/historicalviews/2252001.htm Islamic Slaveryhttp://www.faithfreedom.org/Articles/SStephan/islamic_slavery.htm BBC NEWS | World | Africa | Probe of Darfur 'slavery' startshttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/6468097.stm Slave Trade Thrives in Sudanhttp://www.domini.org/openbook/sud80210.htm Saudi UAE ARE SLAVERY: ALL ARAB...

Arabism Equals Racismhttp://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=24912The Kurdish people in Syria has been subjected to racist Arabist policies ... social backwardness and the repression of non-Arab nations and minorities http://home.cogeco.ca/~dbonni1/18-3-03-opinion-kamal-miraddeli.htmlHanging Saddam: New Middle East’s Aurora America’s lethal enemy: Pan-Arabism br>A free Iraqi, free of the mental pestilence of Pan-Arabism. He was free of any criminal intimidation expressed by any criminal bogus-ambassador of a Pan-Arabist tyranny! And the verdict was a victory for the long tyrannized peoples of that land... - http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/20525.htmlArabism at its Most Ugly http://beirut2bayside.blogspot.com/2004/07/arabism-at-its-most-ugly_23.html“Eurabia” Defined Arab and Islamic anti-Israeli propaganda, barely disguised in academic and ... and geopolitics of Euro-Arabism; in this...

FBI ACADEMY BOOTS 'BOGUS' AFRICAN COP By DAN MANGAN May 28, 2007 -- The FBI's famed National Academy recently expelled a student from a troubled African nation after learning he was not a cop, as he had claimed, The Post has learned. The incident raises serious questions about the FBI's screening process for prospective National Academy students. The 72-year-old National Academy is part of the FBI Academy, which trains G-men. It is located at the U.S. Marine Corps Base in Quantico, Va. - considered a "secured facility" by the government. The National Academy has trained thousands of U.S., city and...

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir on Wednesday signalled he was looking for a diplomatic way out of a crisis with Chad that has seen the two neighbours threatening military action against each other. The Sudanese government has accused the Chadian army of launching an attack on Monday that killed 17 of its soldiers. Chad denied any such deliberate assault, but said its forces had clashed with Sudanese troops after crossing the border to pursue Sudanese-backed rebels it accused of launching raids. While some Sudanese officials spoke of tough responses to any new Chadian "aggression", Bashir sounded a...

Angelina to adopt again? April 3, 2007 - 10:13AM Angelina Jolie is planning to adopt for the fourth time, it has been claimed, just days after finalising the adoption of Vietnamese orphan Pax Thien. The actress - who recently adopted Vietnamese son Pax Thien, and also has a Cambodian son Maddox and Ethiopian daughter Zahara - reportedly wants to adopt a girl from Chad to "balance the family". A source discussing Angelina's family - which also consists of Cambodian son Maddox, Ethiopian daughter Zahara and Angelina's natural daughter Shiloh with lover Brad Pitt - said: "Angelina and Brad want to...

Activist blasts Muslims, Arabs over Darfur stance Web posted at: 2/20/2007 2:7:51 Source ::: The Peninsula / By MOBIN PANDIT Mohamed Adam Yahya Doha • A human rights activist from Darfur yesterday blasted the Arab and Muslim world for what he described as its hypocritical stand on the troubled region in Sudan. He said Muslims from the rest of the world should be ashamed of their indifference towards fellow Muslims being persecuted in Darfur. Ironically, it is the Jews and Americans who are supporting the 'innocent Muslims being targeted' in the region and providing food and shelter to nearly 250,000...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/6367545.stm Chad may face genocide, UN warns Chad may face genocide, UN warns Killing tactics used in Darfur are being used in Chad The violence in Chad could turn into a genocide similar to that in Rwanda in 1994, the UN refugee agency has warned. The UNHCR says the killing tactics from neighbouring Darfur in Sudan have been transported to eastern Chad in full. The warning comes as Chad, Sudan and the Central African Republic signed a deal not to support rebels attacking each other's neighbouring territory. African Union head, Ghana's President John Kufuor, said they seemed ready to agree...

Arab Racism, Arabism, Arabization, Islamism - Islamofascism, Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing, etc. Arab Racism, Arabization, Islamism - Islamofascism, Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing, etc. On Blacks, Africans * Kurds * Berbers * Israelis * Jews * Afghanis * Iranians, Farsi * Pakistanis * English * Asians * Europeans * Marsh Arabs * Nubians * Al Akhdam * Iraqi Arabs vs Ahwazi Arabs * by "palestinians" (on others) General Arabism Equals Racismhttp://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=24912 FrontPageMagazine.com October 13, 2006 ThereÂ’s an expression, "The pot calling the kettle black." It refers to someone claiming a sin in others that is at least as prevalent - if not...

Islam does, of course, contain within itself an Arab supremacist ideology, as one can easily begin to comprehend, and the Arab treatment of non-Arab Muslims (Berbers, Kurds, black Africans in Darfur) is on display right now, for all the world's non-Arab Muslims, and its Infidels, to view and come to understand. If there is any "racism" charge to be flung, it must be flung at Islam, as a vehicle for that Arab imperialism that has been the most successful imperialism in history, causing those non-Arabs conquered to desperately wish to become, in some way, just like the Arabs who conquered...

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The Devil Came on Horseback explains how Brian Steidle left the marines to look for a job and found a calling. As an observer for the African Union in the Sudan, Steilde spent six months watching as a nation consumed itself -- as the Sudanese Arab-controlled government enacted systematic genocide against its black African citizens in Dafur. It's not that the government simply stood by as local militias, the Janjaweed, enacted murder, torture and rape against the local black villages and tribes -- the government was actively engaged in aiding and abetting the Janjaweed atrocities as a tool of policy....

Sudan plane hijacker surrenders in Chad Houston Chronicle - http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/world/4494484.html By HALIME ASSADYA ALI AP Writer. © 2007 AP. N'DJAMENA, Chad — A Sudanese plane carrying 103 passengers and crew was hijacked Wednesday and diverted to the Chadian capital, N'Djamena, where the hijacker surrendered, officials said. Saif Omer, Air West's managing director, said the man walked out of the plane after it landed in Chad and said he wanted asylum in Britain. Nobody was injured, he said. The hijacker walked into the cockpit a half-hour after takeoff and put a pistol to the pilot's head, demanding to go to Chad,...

SUDANESE PLANE HIJACKED AT KHARTOUM AIRPORT BY GUNMAN, DIVERTED TO CHAD'S CAPITAL N'DJAMENA - AN OFFICIAL SAYS