Khartoum - Sudan's leader General Omar al-Beshir appealed to his countrymen to arm themselves and come to the defence of the nation following threats from Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. The Sudanese leader, accompanied by Mozambique's President, Joaquim Chissano, at a rally in a Khartoum suburb, told cheering crowds that their country was the target of Egyptian conspiracies because it had chosen to follow Islamic policies AFP
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