Genocide ‘Director’ Joins CIA Jet-Set
Genocide ‘Director’ Joins CIA Jet-Set
When CIA Airlines isn’t busy ferrying U.S. detainees to torture-friendly foreign countries, it’s apparently bringing men like Sudanese Maj. Gen. Salah Abdallah Gosh — who played a “key role” in actually directing the massacres in Darfur, according to U.S. officials — to America.
Mass killings? Coordinated rape campaigns? That hasn’t stopped the Bush administration from buddying up to Gosh, the top intelligence chief in Sudan, according to the Los Angeles Times. Just last week, the CIA brought him to Washington “for secret meetings sealing Khartoum’s sensitive and previously veiled partnership with the administration.” It’s all part of a White House plan to “forge a close intelligence partnership with the Islamic regime that once welcomed Osama bin Laden,” offering Sudan increased ties and “normalized” intelligence relations in return for coordination in crackdowns on al-Qaeda militants and other suspected terrorists.
White House officials insist the new ties won’t lead to a softening of its already-weak policy toward Sudan, but an October report by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service suggested just the opposite, stating the administration was “concerned that going after these individuals could disrupt cooperation on counter-terrorism.” Just this month, Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick “backed away from the Bush administration’s assertions that the mass killings and village burning [in Darfur] amounted to genocide,” despite the fact that “Darfur’s death toll is likely to be even more appalling this year than last,” according to the Washington Post.
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And you’re surprised?
I learned to expect the most despicable behavior from this Administration in all maters; so I’m not disappointed.
When it comes to doing the “Right Thing�, expect them to do the opposite and you too will not be unpleasantly surprised.
May 1st, 2005 at 6:24 pmIt is my understanding the genocide in Sudan is about the oil rich lands that were occupied by the indigenous people in Dafur. Now that many are dead or displaced, oil exploration etc. has all ready commenced. This type of behavior, sadly, is a staple of certain multi national corporations. War on terror, my Aunt Fannie. They want to protect big oil from an insurgency.
May 1st, 2005 at 9:17 pmPraise oil! We’ve made it clear that nothing, not a species’ status on an endangered species list, not even a creature happening to be human, is enough to spare them from our desire to kill, torture, or maim, if they happen to get between us and oil. Unless of course they contribute to a Republican’s “campaign” in which case we’ll cut ‘em some tax breaks and allow them to keep price-fixing. Because we’re all about ethics, aren’t we, Mr. DeLay, hmmmmm?
May 1st, 2005 at 11:59 pmFrom the Sudan Tribune:
OIL FOUND IN SUDAN’S DARFUR
KHARTOUM, Sudan, Apr 16, 2005 (UPI) — Sudan said Saturday initial oil drilling operations in the troubled Darfur region indicate there is abundant oil in the area.
Sudan Energy Minister Awad al-Jaz told reporters in Khartoum an oil field was found in southern Darfur and it is expected to produce 500,000 barrels of oil per day by August.
Most of the country’s oil production comes from oil fields in southern Sudan, where a peace treaty was recently signed between the government and rebels.
According to the accord, 50 percent of oil revenues from the south will go to the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement, while the other half to Khartoum.
The country started exporting oil in August 1999.
http://www.sudantribune.com/article.php3?id_article=9106
’nuff said??
May 2nd, 2005 at 4:11 am#4 – “nuff said. As I was reading Nico’s post, I was wondering, “Oil in Sudan?” Of course…
May 2nd, 2005 at 2:04 pmWhen I read there was that much oil coming out of the ground, my first thought was is there a tyrant there to be over thrown or slingshots of mass destruction. It seems the tyant is already in the Bush admins pocket so we don’t even have to invade………yet.
May 3rd, 2005 at 7:40 pmQuelle surprise!
Not that I wish to engage in racial stereotyping, but note if you will that those being driven out of the area are “indigenous types” (read: “black”) — and their aggressors are of Arabic descent.
Cowboys and Indians? Texans and Mexicans? Germans and Poles?
There’s not only lebensraum in them there hills, there’s GOLD, too. Black gold. Sudanese tea. Oil, that is. And guess who’ll be there to make sure that it makes its way to China post-haste?
The answer, ladies and gents, lies in a BEAUTIFUL timeline to be found at –
http://www.sudanupdate.org/REPORTS/Oil/21oc.html
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