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This is not far-fetched. El-Fatih Urwah, the principle that Khartoum used in talks held in Rosslyn, was the man behind the movement of Falasha Jews from Ethiopia through Sudan to Israel. He is an intelligence officer of many years standing and is well-known within the CIA. The problem, as was always the case in the Clinton administration, was the large number of incompetants at the NSC and at the top levels of the State Department.

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It is interesting that State Department principles were leaking the news in mid-1996 that Carney was out of line. Sudan was to have been his first tour as ambassador, and the more he hammered away at State, asking it to reassess its policy of non-recognition, the deeper hole he dug for himself. Their argument was that he would do anything to get to Khartoum. Now it is clear that he was only doing his duty as he saw it. It is interesting that the Guardian has published an article today claiming that the Khartoum Government also tried in 1996 to turn over a large stack of dossiers of Islamic fundamentalists active in Sudan. Again, Khartoum was rebuffed. This is the first in a series of backstabbing episodes that will pit the CIA vs. the State Department and NSA, and everyone vs. the FBI, as bureaucrats duck for cover and blame someone, anyone, for the disastrous intelligence failure.