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I know that in America 'Chad' is mostly a person's name, he says, before delving into the problems that drove him to leave a decent job managing logistics for CocaCola and join the rebellion that reached Chad's capital last week.Mr. Outman, a tall, lean 24yearold who studied English at a Houston community college, offers a rare behindthefrontlines glimpse into Chad's rebel movement. His brothers and cousins still live comfortably in the suburbs of Houston, where they hold video game marathons and watch Survivor. But Outman has left that life behind.Most Chadian leaders take care of themselves, their family and their clan, in that order, says Outman, who was interviewed last month near the SudanChad border, before the latest offensive began. As he spoke, preparations for the rebel attacks were under way a boy of 12 or 13 was packing rounds into a machine gun clip nearby.Outman is the First Commandant for Internal Security for the United Front for Democratic Change (FUCD), New Balance 629 Man's the main faction of wellarmed Chadian rebels who last week fought their way more than 450 miles from their bases on the edge of the Montblanc Fountain Pen warravaged Darfur region of New Balance A20 Man's western Sudan through their native country towards N'djamena, Chad's capital city.Only before the country's presidential elections, which have been boycotted by all opposition parties, some of Coach Satchels Sale the rebels made it inside the capital last week, but were repelled by forces loyal to Mr. Deby. The rebels say they made a tactical retreat and have repeatedly vowed to oust Deby before presidential elections scheduled for May 3.Only one faction of the rebel movement, the FUCD has 8,000 fighters, according to its leadership.In early March, one of their forward military bases on the porous ChadSudan border had about 600 fighters, and many of FUCD's top leaders. The camp was filled with young men fishtailing through sandy riverbeds in new Toyota Land Cruisers, beige sacks of rocketpropelled grenades dangling from the sides. Kalashnikovs outnumbered shoes (younger conscripts had flipflops), which made it easy to find Outman  the only rebel in a thousand miles sporting a pair of beatup Nikes.From student to rebelOutman studied business administration for a year in Quebec City, and then English at a Houston community college for two semesters while living with his relatives. He left the US abruptly in October 2003, when his father, an investment bankerturnedpolitician from a leading Chadian opposition party, developed health problems.Upon returning to Chad, Outman held a series of good jobs with large European companies and CocaCola doing shipping and logistics. Being a logistics manager came naturally to Outman. He enjoyed the challenge of moving everything from cars to chewing gum across some of the Montblanc Etoile most inhospitable landscapes on the planet.But as time went on, life in N'Djamena frustrated him. Having tasted life in the US, he grew fed up with being robbed by the capital city's police, which he says is a common occurrence. Chad consistently ranks near the top of Transparency International's list of the world's most corrupt nations, and Outman holds President Deby's government responsible for fostering that widespread corruption.Gradually, he became convinced the country needed new leadership. Given how Deby last spring pushed through a change to the Constitution that allows him to run for a third term, Outman felt the only way to bring that change was through force. Still, it was no single event that drove him to join the rebels, he says.Sudan's roleSudan has been the silent backer of Chad's rebels, until recentlyallowing them to train and launch their attacks from areas of Darfur, in western Sudan. Darfur is infamous for the 3yearold conflict involving the Sudanese government's brutal response to a tribal uprising, which US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has repeatedly called genocide. Tens of thousands have been killed and around 1.8 million are now displaced, with at least 200,000 living as refugees in Chad.Outman says it's all a tribal conflict, dismissing its political import and downplaying the humanitarian crisis. But looking at the FUCD rebels, it is hard to dismiss their own tribalism their rank and file largely draws upon one tribe, Abercrombie & Fitch Vintage Polos the Tama, in opposition to another, the Zaghawa. The FUCD rebels cite the corruption and nepotism of Deby, a Zaghawa, as a source of their ire.Related Topics Articles：
 
 
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