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     libralind2 Veteran Poster Username: libralind2 Post Number: 54 Registered: 09-2004 Rating: N/A |
Sudan Becomes US Ally in 'War on Terror' By Suzanne Goldenberg The Guardian UK Saturday 30 April 2005 Sudan's Islamist regime, once shunned by Washington for providing a haven for Osama bin Laden as well as for human rights abuses during decades of civil war, has become an ally in the Bush administration's "war on terror". Only months after the US accused Khartoum of carrying out genocide in Darfur, Sudan has become a crucial intelligence asset to the CIA. In the Middle East and Africa, Sudan's agents have penetrated networks that would not normally be accessible to America, one former US intelligence official told the Guardian. Some of that cooperation has spilled over into the war in Iraq: Sudan is credited with detaining foreign militants on their way to join anti-American fighters there. Sudanese agents have also helped the CIA to monitor Islamist organisations in Somalia. "The intelligence relationship is the strongest thread between Washington and Khartoum," the official said. "Khartoum is probably the only government in the Arab League that has contributed in a major way to the protection of US forces and citizens in Iraq." News of the growing cooperation was first reported in yesterday's Los Angeles Times. The paper traced the thaw in relations since 2001 to a milestone last week: the visit to Washington by Sudan's intelligence chief, Salah Abdallah Gosh. It reported that Sudan's secret police had begun to crack down on suspected Islamists, had shared evidence with the FBI and allowed US personnel to interrogate al-Qaida suspects. In May 2003, Sudanese security forces raided a suspected terrorist training camp and deported more than a dozen, mainly Saudi, militants to Arab states which work closely with US intelligence services, the newspaper said. Yet a decade ago Sudan was a haven to Bin Laden and other international outlaws, such as Carlos the Jackal. In 1993, it was placed on the US state department's list of terrorist regimes. Approaches from Khartoum were rebuffed - even as it offered its services against an emerging al-Qaida in the 1990s. "Sudan tried to hand over two guys implicated in the 1998 bombing of the US embassies in east Africa, and the response was to send cruise missiles to hit the aspirin factory in Khartoum," the official said. "They offered up Bin Laden in 1995, and we said we don't even have an indictment on him." Officially, Washington's position towards Sudan remains unchanged. "Sudan is still considered a state sponsor of terror," a state department spokesman said yesterday. News of General Gosh's visit to Washington caused consternation in human rights circles. The general is among 51 Sudanese officials implicated in human rights abuses by the international criminal court. "I quite understand that the war on terrorism means dealing with bad actors, but to fly in one of Sudan's chief committers of what Washington has formally described as genocide is deeply disturbing," said an independent Sudan analyst, Eric Reeves. He noted there had been signs of a slight thaw towards Khartoum for some time - despite the state department's official stance. | ||
| kola_boof "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: kola_boof Post Number: 230 Registered: 02-2005 Rating: N/A |
They're trying to get Sudan to turn over Bin Laden. And, of course, there's the OIL. | ||
| Anunaki3600 Newbie Poster Username: Anunaki3600 Post Number: 10 Registered: 04-2005 Rating: |
One thing is for Sudan to get US tax dollars to fight terror. For Sudan, their terrorists are mostly Black Sudanees in Dafoor and Southern Sudan. Sudan is an Islamic State. Just yesterday there was a big demostration in Khartoum where demostrators wanted to kill a journalist for his article in their local paper. | ||
| Cynique "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Cynique Post Number: 2231 Registered: 01-2004 Rating: N/A |
One of the key members on the Chicago Bulls' basketball team, a forward who played his college ball at Duke University is a young man originally from the Sudan by the name of Luol Deng. A wrist injury is preventing him from appearing in the NBA playoffs and the Bulls are on the brink of elimination due partly to the absence of Deng's tall, imposing presence and his good shooting eye. Deng was the oil that helped the machinery of the Bull's team run smoothly. Without Deng, this engine is now running out of fuel. | ||
| Kola_boof "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Kola_boof Post Number: 235 Registered: 02-2005 Rating: N/A |
Correction---MOST terrorists in Sudan are White Arab men in Khartoum who look like Osama Bin Laden---although Bashir and Turabi are "black" (although they would never admit that) and are PUPPETS for the White Arab rulers. The people being PAID by those White Arab men to carry out Genocide in Darfur and South Sudan are "Black Arabs"---the mixed race gang masses of the countryside. SUDAN's population is overwhelmingly BLACK....but the 1% who RULE are overwhelmingly White Arab. ___________ Cynique, I've been getting flowers from Luol for a year now. He's only in his 20's though. | ||
| Cynique "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Cynique Post Number: 2232 Registered: 01-2004 Rating: N/A |
Well, Kola, nobody could ever accuse you of emulating Paula Abdul, could they? I don't know whether that's good or bad. Every woman should have a boy-toy to play with at least once in her life. |
