Official in charge of Islamic Movement’s arms deals, Hisham Al-Sobat.. Will he escape international sanctions?

With absolute freedom, the corrupt businessman and loyalist to the Army, “Hisham Al-Sobat”, is active in Cairo these days, in preparation to travel to the United States in “suspicious” developments related to concluding “weapons and ammunition purchase deals” for the “Sudanese Army”, which is fighting alongside the militia of the Islamic Movement Battalions, and no wonder. This corrupt man is known for his corruption, talks of crimes related to sabotaging the national economy follow him, from which he obtained eight million dollars, in what is known as the case of “non-conforming petroleum tankers”, in report No. 36 of 2022 under Articles (21, 57A, 123) of the Penal Code, related to forgery and sabotaging the national economy.

Strangely enough, “Al-Sobat” escaped punishment through practicing more corruption, in a first-of-its-kind precedent, as the then-assigned Attorney General, “Khalifa Ahmed Khalifa”, dismissed the report before the charge was brought and referred to court, following the intervention of influential people in power, and the decision was hidden by another prosecution.

The corrupt practice of the Attorney General was exposed to the public when the defendant’s lawyer, “Abdul Basit Sabdarat”, appeared in a procedural session carrying a decision to dismiss the report dated December 12th, 2022, issued by the assigned Attorney General Khalifa, at the same time a public prosecutor from the Khartoum North Public Prosecution appeared before the court, carrying another letter, requesting the report papers from the Executive Office of the Attorney General, on February 1st, 2023.

At the time, everyone knew that a major corruption operation and tampering with the report papers took place within the prosecution during the investigation phase without referring to the reports’ records. Information also indicated the involvement of public prosecutors from the “Public Prosecution Club” hovering around the Attorney General.

Because birds of a feather flock together, the Islamic Movement found no one better than this corrupt individual to carry out its dirty deeds, and contribute to supporting the killing of Sudanese citizens so that Ali Karti could return to power once again. Comparing a corrupt person to a traitor is a valid point, as he only views issues from the perspective of his own interests, even if others suffered greatly in consequence and thousands were victimized by his selfishness.

Al-Sobat wasn’t tried for his corruption, then, and because “he who feels secure from the consequences misbehaves”, Al-Sobat sided with the killers after the outbreak of the April 15th war, motivated by protecting himself from accountability first, and also because the Brotherhood constitutes a fertile environment for corruption and profiting from the spilled blood of the Sudanese, as Al-Sobat no longer has hope or need for people’s respect after his previous deed was exposed, and his corruption became public knowledge.

Today, Al-Sobat offers his share in buying ammunition that executes young Sudanese volunteers in (Takayas), that rains down lava on residential neighborhoods, seeking both with hooves to secure his “commission” in a weapons deal to kill relatives, and God’s creation is wonderfully diverse.

It is also surprising that the “US Treasury Department” is active in imposing sanctions on figures merely on “suspicion” or to “balance” the two parties to the conflict, while it ignores such blatant activities from “Al-Sobat” supported by the Islamic Movement in the trade of death in cooperation with regional countries that are no longer ashamed of their open hostility towards the Sudanese nationals, so why does Al-Sobat remain immune from such sanctions?

The Sudanese people had no choice in the April 15th war that the Islamic Movement ignited and made it a reality, especially those deemed explicitly and publicly to be targets of the Movement as ethnicities, residents, collaborators, accomplices, or simply as individuals coexisting with the Rapid Support Forces, and they continue to hurl insults at them, as well as arrest, torture, and carry out mass executions against them. These people have no choice but to fight the Islamic Movement in self-defense, break its rifle and take its leaders to the gallows and prisons, or weaken the Movement to the point whete a political agreement with it is more like a contract of submission.

Otherwise, Sudan will certainly experience similar circumstances to those of the “Black Decade” in Algeria, when Islamists were killing women and children in the streets, in implementation of the orders of the group’s religion and its leader. The early nineties’ model of the murderous jurists rule isn’t far from mind, when the Islamic Movement raped the youth and elderly of the honorable Sudanese people, in its secret ghost houses. Al-Qaddal, may God bless his memory, once said: “Beware of sand falling into a fragile place. The rainy place doesn’t much care about the spray.”