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2006-05-31 Africa Horn

'UN humanitarian chief warns of catastrophe in Darfur

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Posted by Fred 2006-05-31 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "Some jokes just tell themselves, y'know..."

Can't improve on perfection.

Posted by Grolet Elmigum3667 2006-05-31 00:39|| 2006-05-31 00:39|| Front Page Top

#2 However, he warned against deploying a Western military force, as some politicians in the United States have suggested. "We have to be careful to calibrate the humanitarian and security response so it doesn't provoke a reaction," Egeland said. "I'd like to see the African Union ( AU) and the UN play the lead role there, NATO and other organizations can complement and very usefully complement our efforts."

Must mean them 'merican Cowboys.

Oh and to translate:

We don't want the world to see what a competent professional military force can do. Just send us some targets for our Islamic friends. We can find a way to blame Bush later, when things get really bad...

But if you really want to send UN peacekeepers, let's let the situation for the refugees get worse so there'll be plenty of starving wimmin and children for our Food for Sex program, so successful elsewhere.

Posted by badanov 2006-05-31 03:50|| http://www.freefirezone.org]">[http://www.freefirezone.org] 2006-05-31 03:50|| Front Page Top

#3 We either get good news in the next few weeks, or we have catastrophic news later, Jan Egeland told the Associated Press in a telephone interview.

Please save us the drama and just go ahead fast forward to "catastrophic" thank you.

Posted by Besoeker 2006-05-31 06:48|| 2006-05-31 06:48|| Front Page Top

#4 We have to be careful to calibrate the humanitarian and security response so it doesn't provoke a reaction,"

yes, god forbid we should cause them to react by stopping their genocide.

Posted by lotp 2006-05-31 08:21|| 2006-05-31 08:21|| Front Page Top

#5 The United Nation's humanitarian chief warned on Tuesday of a catastrophic situation developing in Darfur unless international donors act soon...

You've got to be shitting me.
So... just so we're clear... it's not catastrophic now???

Can we bring these guys up on Warcrimes... because I'm thinking this is the one place where it can actually apply.

Posted by Anon4021 2006-05-31 11:28|| 2006-05-31 11:28|| Front Page Top

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