Speaking on the eve of the deadline by which the rebels are to gather in two assembly points while talks continue to end the brutal 20-year war in northern Uganda, LRA deputy commander Vincent Otti indicated the agreement was collapsing and the rebels would not fully assemble until UPDF forces withdrew from the area. Otti accused the Ugandan army of using the agreed assembly areas to set up a military trap. "We will not assemble because that is their plan," Otti said over satellite telephone from his jungle hideout on the Sudan-Congo border. Uganda's government responded that peace talks would continue, despite what it called repeated efforts by the rebels to stall the process by staging walk-outs. Read more at Reuters AlertNet.