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he Independent December 6, 1993, Monday
HEADLINE: Anti-Soviet warrior puts his army on the road to peace;
The Saudi businessman who recruited mujahedin now uses them for large-scale
building projects in Sudan. Robert Fisk met him in Almatig

By ROBERT FISK

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Outside Sudan, Mr Bin Laden is not regarded with quite such high esteem. The
Egyptian press claims he brought hundreds of former Arab fighters back to Sudan
from Afghanistan, while the Western embassy circuit in Khartoum has suggested th
at some of the ''Afghans'' whom this Saudi entrepreneur flew to Sudan are now bu
sy training for further jihad wars in Algeria, Tunisia and Egypt. Mr Bin Laden
is well aware of this. ''The rubbish of the media and the embassies,'' he calls
it. ''I am a construction engineer and an agriculturalist. If I had training ca
mps here in Sudan, I couldn't possibly do this job.''

And ''this job'' is certainly an ambitious one: a brand-new highway
stretching all the way from Khartoum to Port Sudan, a distance of 1,200km (745
miles) on the old road, now shortened to 800km by the new Bin Laden route that
will turn the coastal run from the capital into a mere day's journey.


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