Sudan next?
Jacko said in the Sunday Torygraph that 5000 troops could be used in the Sudan if needed later on in the crisis!
Are they going to call up the Home Guard to do this?
Where the hell are those troops gonna come from. Not the Black Watch or the Highland Fusiliers as they face the axe? Or could this be the Glory that they need to save them????
Can't see them risking air assets as there is a civil war raging. What ?
Hot from the BBC web site 15 mins ago....
"There are precedents for using troops not to attack a central government but to provide security for refugees. After the Gulf War in 1991 the US, Britain and others set up safe areas for the Kurdish refugees from Iraq who flooded over the mountains into Turkey.
Planning is already under way. Britain is thinking about a joint civilian-military team, according to Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, who is going to Sudan soon.
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has also been to Sudan. The government there is in no doubt about world opinion.
The Africa Union has promised a small force of 300 soldiers to act as monitors of some kind. "
Last edited by Grimweasel; 26th Jul 2004 at 20:07.