Salah Gosh

Salah Gosh

Major General Salah Gosh is director of Sudan's National Security and Intelligence Services. He has been accused of having a significant role in organizing the Khartoum government's militias in the Darfur Conflict, and, according to the "American Prospect",cite news
url = http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?articleId=11167
author = Goldberg, Mark Leon
date = February 17, 2006
journal = American Prospect
title = The Test: The Prospect views the list of men the U.N. identifies as responsible for the genocide in Darfur
] is "listed in a confidential annex to a January 30th Security Council report that identifies the 17 Sudanese individuals whom a panel of U.N. experts concluded were most responsible for war crimes and impeding the peace process. The panel recommends that the council place these men under targeted sanction, that they be banned from international travel, and that their foreign assets be frozen." He was described by the "American Prospect" as "Gosh was [the] personal government minder" for Osama bin Laden when the latter was in Sudan between 1990 and 1996.

Gosh has also been the point of contact between the Central Intelligence Agency and Sudan on counter-terrorism issuescite web
url = http://www.jamestown.org/terrorism/news/article.php?articleid=2369723
title = Terrorism and Violence in the Sudan: The Islamist Manipulation of Darfur
author = McGregor, Andrew
volume=3
issue=12
publisher = Jamestown Foundation
journal = Terrorism Monitor
date = June 17, 2005
title =Terrorism and Violence in the Sudan: The Islamist Manipulation of Darfur (Part 1 of 2)
] . In yet another of the situation where US interests in counter-terror and human rights are at odds with another, especially when the two interests are in different parts of Sudan, Gosh told the "Al-Ahdath" daily from Libya that the cooperation with the US “helped avert devastating measures [by US administration] against Sudan”.cite news
url = http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?page=imprimable&id_article=24527
journal = Sudan Tribune
title = Sudan says cooperation with CIA prevented US ‘destructive’ backlash
date = 31 October 2007.
] . The US had flown Gosh to the US in April 2005, to discuss capture of terror suspects. Gosh also is suspected of complicity in human rights abuses in Darfur, so he was subsequently denied admission to the US for medical treatment.

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