Rebels all round

President Déby looks vulnerable but the French and American governments see no credible alternative

The global 'War on Terror' arrived in Chad in early March when a heavily armed column of Algeria's Groupe Salafiste de Prédication et de Combat (GSPC), turned up unexpectedly in the Wour region of the Tibesti. Led by Amari Saïfi, known as Abdelrazak 'Le Para' due to his background as a master sergeant in the Algerian special forces (AC Vol 45 No 5), it was engaged equally improbably by regular units of the Armée Nationale Tchadienne (ANT), which previously had been incapable of dealing with the rather less fearsome Mouvement pour la Justice et la Démocratie au Tchad (MDJT).

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Algeria, Amari Saïfi, Abdelrazak 'Le Para', United States, Malian, German, Niger, The American way, Sudan, Omer Hassan el-Bashir, Ahmat Hassaballah Soubiane, Daoussa, Yorongar Ngarléjy, Acheikh Ibn Oumar, Nahor Ngwara Mamouth, Hissène Habré, Groupe Salafiste de Prédication et de Combat, Armée Nationale Tchadienne, Mouvement pour la Justice et la Démocratie au Tchad, Mouvement Patriotique de Salut, Union des Forces pour le Changement, Conseil Démocratique Révolutionnaire, Front Démocratique Populaire, Mouvement pour la Démocratie et le Développement, Front Populaire pour la Renaissance Nationale, Mouvement pour l'Unité et la République

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