KHARTOUM (AFP) ??” Sudan's army has called the UN resolution giving it 30 days to decipher its Darfur crisis "a declaration of war" and warned it will fight any foreign squads sent into the western region.

KHARTOUM (AFP) ??” Sudan's army has called the UN resolution giving it 30 days to decipher its Darfur crisis "a declaration of war" and warned it will fight any foreign squads sent into the western region.

"The Security Council resolution about the Darfur issue is a declaration of war forward the Sudan and its people" armed forces spokesman General Mohamed Beshir Suleiman told the official Al Anbaa daily.

"The Sudanese army is now prepared to face the enemies of the Sudan forward land, sea and air," he said.

Suleiman claimed the 30-day deadline settle in Friday's UN resolution was "a preparatory period" for war against Sudan and that his political division was "being targetted ...