US threatens "plan B" if Sudan does not act before Jan 1

"On January 1st, either we see change or we go to Plan B," US envoy to Sudan Natsios told reporters at the US State Department. When pressed what he meant by this, Natsios replied: "I am not going to get into that ... Plan B is a different approach to this." - ST
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Sep 11 2006 Sunday Times - Plan B would be to do everything possible to get the AU to stay and strengthen it.