According to SPLA area commander Malik Agar Khartoum threw in 23 battalions (of circa 600 exclusively regular troops each) only to see 11 destroyed 16 senior officers killed and two working T-55 tanks captured in the final battle outside Ulu...
The local Sudan People's Liberation Army commander Malik Agar claims that a Chinese-run mine his troops overran last dry season is now yielding gold worth US$100 000 a year...
Now the SPLA (commanded by Malik Agar himself a Blue Niler from the Ingessana Hills) is again threatening Kurmuk and Ethiopia is not about to help the Sudan army...
