Khartoum — A member of Sudan's ruling National Congress Party (NCP) has described the authorities' detention of a group of military and civilian Islamists on accusation of plotting to seize power as "a badly-acted charade" aiming to purge the army and the wider Islamist establishment of certain dissidents.
According to Al-Mu'iz Abdallah, a young affiliate of what is known as the current of reformists within the NCP, the so-called subversive attempt in which the authorities implicated a number of Islamist elements from the National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS), the army, the paramilitary Popular Defense Forces (PDF), and even within the NCP was nothing but a badly-acted charade.
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