We’ve seen this Khartoum before.
Well played.
On a related note, our entire Middle East branch of the State Deprtment and anyone O-1 and up and E-4 and up should have had Churchill’s books on dealing with Islamics as required reading post-9/11. I read the Story of the Malakand Field Force and The River War in the last few years. In the latter the Brits dealt with the Mahdi in Khartoum.