http://www.radionetherlands.nl/currentaffairs/sud060308?view=Standard

A report by a Sudanese newspaper that the pro-government, Sudanese Students Union (SSU) has offered $100,000 (two-point-five billion Sudanese pounds) for the head of UN envoy Jan Pronk, has sent shockwaves through the Khartoum regime. The threat came after the proposal to replace African peacekeepers in Darfur with UN forces. The comments attributed to the SSU have now been retracted by its chairman Mohammed Idris.

Sharaq al-Awsat newspaper on Wednesday: "Our message to Mr Pronk is that if those who are trying to convince [the UN not to] send international forces to Darfur fail, more than 9000 students are waiting in Darfur as 'time bombs' if any international troops dare to come [to the region]."

Meanwhile, The Popular Committee for Defending Islam and the Homeland (a conservative religious body) called for a demonstration in Khartoum on Wednesday to protest sending UN forces to Sudan, and the paramilitary Popular Defence Force made the so-called 'death swear' in a parade in front of President Bashir last week in a bid to prevent any international forces from reaching Darfur.

Such a lovely bunch of guys.