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أُكْتُوبَر، ١٩٨٣ — October, 1973 Port Said Airport, Saad Zaghloul Route, West of Israeli Occupied Sinai, Suez, United Arab Republic (Aljumhuria Alarabia Almutahida)

The Democratic Republic Of Sudan • جمهورية السودان الديمُقراطية

OPERATION GHAZAL AL DAR — SUDAN ENTERS THE OCTOBER WAR

The Middle East is once again plunged into war, not a mere decade since the last devastating war had crushed the general morale of the Arab nationalist struggle, with Zionist aggressive incursions into the UAR’s Sinai, Syrian Golan, the Jordanian East Bank, otherwise known as Gilead by Sudanese intelligence, and finally Palestinian Gaza. As the signs of war were becoming clearer, the country’s intelligence services, the SIRA had determined the Arabs were not going to allow Israel to get away with its victory in the war of 1967, a war which had in itself, completely altered the diplomatic and political relationships between Khartoum and Jerusalem for the worse. When President Nimiery held a high-ranking major position, within the military intelligence services, before becoming SIRA Director shortly after the 1967 war had transpired unrest, riots, and anti-government demonstrations in the Sudanese capital, he had at the time, thought the severing of diplomatic relations with Israel had come much later than it should have, citing that Sudan should’ve severed relations in the Suez crisis of 1956, if it weren’t for Sudan’s compromising diplomatic relations with the United Kingdom, that had fought on the same side as Israel to reclaim the Suez Canal.

This time however, it had seemed that the outburst of the October War during the early days of Ramadan and the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur had brought with it the much-needed unanimous waves of approval from across the Arab world, as united efforts began to issue economic embargoes on western, and aligned nations of Israel’s illegal war of imperialism on the Arab world. Sudan on the other hand, was also willing to carry it out further, as the country found itself at a much more energized fervor under the Nimiery Regime, with the Sudanese State eager to prove itself in the face of its Allies, who had rather shown disappointed stature with Sudan’s hesitance in backing the Arab world in 1967, 1956, and the 1948 wars against Israel. Although the latter could be credited to Sudan’s not-yet-independent status from the Empire.

War Justifications

Though it is generally believed that the Arab war effort had secured the public support necessary throughout the region, at home however, the matter of sending Sudan on that very same warpath and sacrificing her sons, had faced much larger doubts from the population. Initially, the Nimeiry Regime had advertised the prospect of actively backing the Arabs with manpower, supplies, and lead as the duty of a nation that had so far failed to uphold the prospect of Arab unity. Though Nimeriry would have to sell the war as personal and paint Israel as much more than a faraway threat that had so far scared the ego and pride of the Arabs, as a hostile entity that poses a legitimate security threat to the very sovereignty and integrity of the Sudanese State. And thankfully for Nimeiry,
Israel did pose the exact threat that he needed to use as a casus belli.

Since both Sudan’s shift away from Israel in 67’ and the recent military take over in Nilemba by strongman Idi Amin in the early 70s, the aforementioned butcher of Uganda as he is becoming popularly known, had projected a large threat on the integrity of Sudan’s southern borders. Idi Amin, propelled into power with aid from the West, and most notably Israel, had provided both Nimeiry, and the Sudanese public with the desired unequivocal evidence, that the hostile Zionist entity had been mingling with both the Amin Regime in Nilemba and the South Sudanese Anyanya rebels hiding in the border regions, and carrying out targeted terrorist attacks against Sudanese troops, and what they call as northern collaborators in the South. Just as the UAR had fabricated reports of an attack on an Egyptian port on the coast, the Nimeiry Government would use an attack that had occurred, as justification for the war.

Earlier in the week, a small cell of Anyanya terrorists had attacked a military installation near Raga in South Sudan’s Bahr Al-Ghazal State. Details of the attacks had been exaggerated by the Central Government, while also criticizing the Anyanya for attacking a military unit made up of mostly South Sudanese conscripts, of course the accusations come with the intent to secure Southern approval for the war, especially towards the next phase in the long march of Sudanese security. The other reason involves the goal of creating a rally around the flag effect, but uniting the nation as a whole, therefore giving Sudan an ability to utilize its military strength, at the land, sea, and air. By painting the Anyanya as terrorists, he ensures the South stays far from flirting with those very same insurgents. This also helps Nimeiry paint the Anyanya’s backers such as Idi Amin and Israel, as accomplices to the attacks on Sudan, and that it was the undeniable duty of the State to protect herself.

Land Front — Sinai

At Port Said’s airport, row after row of Sudanese soldiers would disembark from the commercial planes of Sudan Airways, which had assisted the war effort by flying into the Port virtually three times a day. As the troops assembled, awaiting further information on the orders to be received from Khartoum military command, and regional military command setting up base in the Egyptian city by the coast of the Mediterranean, they grew more eager to engage in the combat currently being pushed deeper into the Sinai desert by the embattled Egyptian and UAR troops, destined to retake their lands. Sudan had pledged about 2,500 Units to be deployed to the Sinai, with a capacity of up to 5,000 depending on the course of the war effort, should Khartoum and Cairo both agree to further assistance.

Further east, diplomatic channels between Khartoum and Damascus have also been busy with discussions to seek the deployment of Sudan’s Armed Forces to the Golan, the highlands stolen by Israel in the 1967 war. So far, some 500 to 1,000 troops are expected to be on the ready to assist Syria in their front as well, providing the Arab world with assurances that Sudan is prepared to fight by their side till victory is secured.

Air Force — Lake Albert Valley

Far from the main battle scenes at the doorsteps of Israel, about 5 Sudanese Air Force pilots would rush to get on board 5 different Dassault MD.450 Ouragan Fighter-Bombers, within a few minutes each plane would barrel down the runway at Juba’s internal airport, taking to the sky with greater speed. 250 KMs south of Juba, by the shores of the White Nile near Pokwero in western Nilemba, the water would explode with the thunderous roar of four 5,004 lb bombs falling from the payload of the SAAF’s Fighter Bombers, onto the boats and encampments of known Anyanya camp, deep within Nilemba. Just a few seconds later another volley of four bombs would follow the first aircraft, and then another and another before the 5 planes had performed their ordered attacks on the Anyanya as retaliation to the attack on the military barracks outside Raga.

It had seemed that within a matter of Days, Khartoum was intent on showing Israel that Sudan was more than capable, and competent in handling the “distraction” that it had propped up with the Anyanya and Idi Amin’s Nilemba, while also sending ground troops to the Sinai to face the enemy on two fronts. Khartoum is anticipating internal flak for infiltration and attack on Nilemba sovereign soil, but the regime had already prepared a series of evidence accusing Nilemba of harboring, protecting, and supporting terrorist attacks against the Sudanese State and people. An attack that neither the public nor the people in charge of protecting them intends to allow them to get away with. The Sudanese nation under Nimeiry is a nation committed to bolstering a powerful, recognizable, and defiant international image.

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AL-NASRU LENA!
AL-NASRU LE SUDAN!