MEMRI translation of Egyptian papers, edited for the industrial grade crack:
Several articles and reports recently published in Egypt allege that the American intervention in Darfur is nothing but a plot to control the oil in Sudan and help President Bush in the upcoming elections. The following are excerpts from the articles:
"The fast locomotive of the Western intervention, led by the U.S., is about to pull into the Darfur station in Sudan ... where there is no separation between political and humanitarian issues. While the experts in Washington, London, and Khartoum are toying with the fate of more than a million Sudanese, displaced and scattered in the desert, the new amateur Sudanese politicians, the sons of Darfur, who visited the capitals of the world, have been intoxicated by the political and media glory and have lost their ability to present a coherent political agenda. The question is why did Colin Powell, the American Secretary of State, grab the ball from the U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan's court in this race to Darfur and [why he] mobilized behind him the European Union in an attempt to score the 'goal' of imposing international sanctions on Sudan? Why didn't Washington give the agreement that was signed last April between the government of Khartoum and the U.N. a chance [that may have saved] more than a million Sudanese from the threats of death, hunger, drowning in the vast desert [sands] of Darfur or dying in the refugee camps in Chad?
"The answers are not far from the American voting booths, and as usual they are not far from the oil barrel. Bush is awaiting his fate in November, and the U.S. is planning to make Darfur an easy path towards its major plan to transport the [Persian] Gulf oil and the African oil to the shores of the Atlantic Ocean, so that Washington can meet its needs in the next decade...
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