The outlaws

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El Obeid Airport North Kurdufan, Sudan 2130 31 January 2007 The small convoy-two battered Toyota pickups, a Ford F-150 pickup, and a Land Rover-had attracted little attention as it passed through Al-Ubayyid (estimated population around 310,000).

Al-Ubayyid was the nearest (seven kilometers) town to the El Obeid Airport, which was sometimes known as the Al-Ubayyid Airport. The town of Al-Ubayyid was sometimes known as El Obeid. In this remote corner of the world, what a village or an airport-or just about anything else-was called depended on who was talking.

The men were all armed with Kalashnikov rifles, and all bearded, and all were dressed in the long pastel-colored robes known as jalabiya, and wearing both tagia skullcaps and a length of cloth, called an imma, covering their heads.

The beds of the trucks each held one or two armed men. It was impossible to tell-even guess-what the cargo might be, as it was covered with a tarpaulin.

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