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| Sudan tells U.S. to back off |
| 2004-07-10 |
| Sudan officials have warned the United States the sanctions it is seeking against the Khartoum government will only worsen the Darfur crisis. Foreign Minister Mustafa Ismail said the United States risks creating another Iraq-style quagmire if it becomes overly assertive about Sudan’s Darfur problem, the BBC reported Saturday. The U.N. Security Council this week debated a U.S. draft resolution to impose sanctions of an Arab militia, known as the Janjaweed, accused of widespread atrocities black Sudanese. Khartoum sends fighter-bombers to attack black villages in Darfur, and then the Janjaweed ride into the villages on horses and camels, killing the men and raping the women, outside observers report. The strategy has caused one million black Sudanese to flee their homes and left another 10,000 dead since last year. The draft U.N. resolution includes sanctions against leaders of the Janjaweed, which could be widened to include the Khartoum government that supports it. Ismail said these sanctions risked "weakening the credibility of agreements" made with the United States and U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan for the Sudan government to disarm the Janjaweed. France has also said it does not support extending the sanctions to the Khartoum government itself. Interestingly, Germany’s FM Fischer calls for action... |
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#5 "...the United States risks creating another Iraq-style quagmire..."How about we create an Afghanistan-style "quagmire" instead, Mustafa? When we get done, you and your buddies in the "government" won't have anything to worry about... |
| Posted by: Old Grouch 2004-07-10 11:05:27 PM |
| #4 Don't worry, BaR, when it comes to "action", Fischer isn't really talking about "acting", he just means they should talk about acting -- you know, a non-binding resolution of comdemnation or something. Wouldn't want to imperil the French oil concessions, ya know. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2004-07-10 5:12:03 PM |
| #3 Interestingly, Germany’s FM Fischer calls for action... Well of course! Sudan isn't a U.S. pet cause, so it's okay for the EU-types to support "action" of some sort. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2004-07-10 2:53:39 PM |
| #2 "Lets Roll." A good place to make the graves of cadres of brigades of jihadi idj-its. |
| Posted by: Lucky 2004-07-10 12:22:32 PM |
| #1 "Ismail said these sanctions risked "weakening the credibility of agreements" made with the United States and U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan for the Sudan government to disarm the Janjaweed." Uh, yeah, maybe we could get you on the phone to discuss these agreements. Lock on, boys and bombs away! Funny how even the Sudanese are picking up on the "Iraqi quagmire" term from the MSM. Un-freakin-believeable. Guess killing 10,000 in a year and displacing millions more could be considered a "quagmire" too, eh? And where do they get these names...Janjaweed...sounds like they've been smokin' too much janjaweed. Maybe we should just send Bill Cosby over (armed) to give them a good tisk-tisking. |
| Posted by: BA 2004-07-10 11:50:50 AM |