Khartoum Emerges As Place To Watch After Pompeo Visit
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Ignore the political noise accompanying Secretary of State Pompeo’s Mideast trip. Watch Khartoum instead.
The Sudanese capital is the most intriguing leg of Mr. Pompeo’s swing through the region. The press will focus on legal niceties involving an address to the Republican convention, recorded Monday on the roof of Jerusalem’s King David hotel. Yet, by making, on Tuesday, the first known direct flight from Israel to Sudan, once one of the most rogue of rogue states, Mr. Pompeo may well culminate a diplomatic coup.
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