Sudan's descent into chaos sets stage for al-Qaida to make a return to historic stronghold

caption...Osama bin Laden at a press conference in Khost, Afghanistan.

"Sudan's moment has come; chaos is our chance to sow the seeds of jihad," warned Abu Hudhaifa al-Sudani, a high-ranking al-Qaida leader, in an October 2022 manifesto.

His words may have seemed premature at the time, but a year of brutal civil war has now plunged Sudan into the kind of …