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2004-01-06 Africa: East
Thousands flee attacks in Western Darfur
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Posted by Dan Darling 2004-01-06 1:17:12 AM|| || Front Page|| [11133 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 God bless CNN and the broadcast networks for their nightly in-depth coverage of this festering atrocity. Thanks to Aaron Brown and Dan Rather, every American is familiar with this and similar Arab/black schisms in other south Saharan states (Mauritania, Mali, etc.), and the ongoing Ethiopian/Eritrean debacle, and the shariah wackos in northern Nigeria, and the Lord's Resistance Army, and...

"Dan... Dan, wake up, you're having that dream again."

"Aunt Em! Uncle Henry! Toto! I was in this wonderful place..."
Posted by Dan (not Darling) 2004-1-6 2:30:19 AM||   2004-1-6 2:30:19 AM|| Front Page Top

#2  I've long considered Rantburg far superior to any network news in terms of both information and analysis. Rather sad when a few dozen folks on the internet can do a better job reporting than enormous network news services ...
Posted by Dan Darling  2004-1-6 2:46:30 AM|| [http://www.regnumcrucis.blogspot.com]  2004-1-6 2:46:30 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Big time. While waiting for the Mars probe to land the other night, I watched several minutes of CNN for the first time since Brent Sadler's pistol-packing car chase in Tikrit last spring. It was almost painful. Can't say Fox or MSNBC are much better. Debka on its worst day is better than any of them.
Posted by Dan (not Darling) 2004-1-6 3:01:23 AM||   2004-1-6 3:01:23 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Dan D: I've been a news junkie all my life and now Rantburg is my primary source of news. Not only do those nice Rantburg folks edit out the column inch filling junk and leave the meat of the article, they also provide interesting and amusing commentary.
Posted by phil_b 2004-1-6 5:20:21 AM||   2004-1-6 5:20:21 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 They've been too busy chasing Pete Rose to give a rat's ass about massacres.
Posted by Robert Crawford  2004-1-6 8:00:01 AM|| [http://www.kloognome.com]  2004-1-6 8:00:01 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Yes and Britney got married (and divorced) too.
Posted by RW2004 2004-1-6 9:08:44 AM||   2004-1-6 9:08:44 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Phil_B: I've found that I usually skim the comments before I read the article. Most of the time Rantburger's pick out important points (like connections to previous stories) that I might otherwise miss.
Posted by Laurence of the Rats  2004-1-6 9:14:08 AM||   2004-1-6 9:14:08 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 The Khartoum regime has begun the roundup of village chiefs and mullahs living west of Nyala in southwestern and western Darfur. The roundup began with leaders living in Khartoum itself. The government is presently contemplating the re-arrest of Islamist leader Hassan al-Turabi, leader of the National Islamic Front, and friend of Osama Bin Ladin and the Al Qaida leaders, for his involvement in the Darfur region.
Posted by Tancred 2004-1-6 10:48:46 AM||   2004-1-6 10:48:46 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 You forgot about Larry King and his hard-hitting, prime time investigative reporting of the Petersen case (ad nauseum), and Michael Jackson.
Posted by ScottAK  2004-1-6 11:12:54 AM||   2004-1-6 11:12:54 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 A globe comes in really handy while one attends Rantburg. Tancred, is that a round-up and set them free thing or is Khartoum really taking sides.

BTW Dan Darling. Your sites interchange with the Belmont Club really helped when Rantburg went down.
Posted by Lucky 2004-1-6 2:42:33 PM||   2004-1-6 2:42:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Lucky: Khartoum has aleady taken sides, and the Bashir government has done so since taking power in July 1989. It backs the Arab abbala (camel) and baqqara (cattle) nomads of the Darfur region who have tried over the last two decades to invade and occupy from land occupied by the African Muslim tribes (Fur, Berti, Messalit, Zaghawa, Toubou, etc.). The issue has now become very complicated with Turabi lending a hand to exacerbate the chaos. Regarding the funding of rebels, there are some elements in London who have been collecting money for years; there is also the fact that there is just a massive amount of arms to be found in Sudan, and the southern Sudanese (including John Garang's SPLA) have had good reason to arm the rebels. The old enemy of my enemy philosophy. Over the last two months the warfare (indiscriminate government bombing and strafing) has become very vicious. The west has food available to ship into Darfur but now the Khartoum government won't allow it. It doesn't want information to leak out about the atrocities occurring there.
Posted by Tancred 2004-1-6 4:00:59 PM||   2004-1-6 4:00:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Tancred, tribal not religious? Is it to the death?
Posted by Lucky 2004-1-7 12:41:38 AM||   2004-1-7 12:41:38 AM|| Front Page Top

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