To draw wedge with international community, Qatar’s attempts to implicate Sudan in Libyan crisis

Hana Kandil

The ruling al-Hammadin regime in Qatar does not stop its attempts to topple the transitional government in Sudan, in the hope of regaining the influence of the Brotherhood, which was ruling the country, under the cloak of former President Omar al-Bashir.

During the past two days, it has been possible to monitor country attempts to implicate Sudan in the Libyan crisis, with a view to drawing a wedge between the Khartoum government and the international community. It has rejected what the Libyan Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj is doing, in cooperation with his Turkish ally Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

The Qatari attempts to implicate Sudan depended on smuggling a huge amount of weapons to Sudanese territory, specifically to Darfur, in preparation for transfer to inside the Libyan borders, and from there to Tripoli to support the Al-Wefaq government militias fighting against the Libyan National Army, to prevent it from liberating the country from terrorism.

Support for Al-Sarraj militias with arms, after Erdogan supported them with mercenaries, is not the only goal behind the arms shipment that was entered into Sudanese territory, and was seized by the armed forces in Darfur.

Observers believed that there is another purpose behind the export of this shipment to Sudan, and not to deliver it to Turkey, in order to connect it to Tripoli, by the ways in which Ankara transfers its support to Siraj and the Libyan brothers.

The hidden purpose of directing the aforementioned arms shipment to Sudan is to implicate the Khartoum government in a regional crisis, stopping the political and diplomatic support of the countries of the world to the ongoing transformation in Sudan, thus impeding the completion of this transformation in a way that provides a better future for the Sudanese.

Taha Ali, the researcher in the affairs of extremist groups, believes that this proposition is correct, explaining that Doha sought to hit two birds with one stone, namely the exploitation of the political and security liquidity situation in the Sudanese state of Darfur, to smuggle weapons through it to Libya.

The second implicates Sudan in this conflict, and showing it as one among the countries that violate the UN Security Council resolution prohibiting arming the parties to the Libyan conflict.