Israel has supplied a rebel group involved in the Darfur conflict in Sudan with a considerable amount of weaponry, a new report says."
Gee, how did they do that?
"Some US officials fear the cargo aboard the MV Faina, which was seized by pirates Thursday, could end up in the hands of Al Qaeda-linked militants in Somalia.... But US officials, arms analysts, and maritime officials say the more likely original destination was southern Sudan, where the former rebel group Sudan
"Vadim Alperin was once quoted to be a "Mossad brother" running a number of clandestine front companies including one Kenyan Meat export company enjoying "good trade" with middle eastern countries covertly used for gathering intelligence from countries such as Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia"
So WHOSE in CHARGE of HANDING the WEAPONS OUT?
Sudan KNOWS!!!!!
"Sudan asks peacekeepers to quit town
KHARTOUM, Sudan - Peacekeepers said yesterday Sudan's government had asked them to withdraw from a rebel-held Darfur town, amid reports state troops were preparing to attack the settlement.
The joint United Nations/African Union UNAMID peacekeeping force said it was trying to convince Sudan to let its troops stay in their base in the south Darfur town of Muhajiriya so they could continue to protect more than 30,000 civilians in the battle-scarred area.
So that's who is overseeing the distribution of Israeli weapons making the region a s***hole.
Muhajiriya has been the scene of more than two weeks of fierce fighting between Sudan government forces, troops from the rebel Justice and Equality Movement, or JEM, and other fighters. Fighting in Darfur has escalated in the build up to an expected decision from the International Criminal Court on whether to issue an arrest warrant against Sudan's president on charges of orchestrating genocide in Darfur.
(Read this and this first, to understand the bulls*** lies and deceptions and WHY the Zionist s***-shovelers are slinging shit at you when it comes to Africa)
JEM, which holds Muhajiriya, said its commanders had reported four columns of Sudanese army troops, including one unit with tanks, were approaching the south Darfur town from different directions yesterday afternoon.
"We think they are planning a large attack," said a JEM official, Al-Tahir al-Feki. "Our main concern is for the civilians because they will bear the brunt of any fighting. . . . They [the government forces] are bringing tanks so they must be preparing to pound the town."
It was impossible to verify the report of the approaching troops independently and Sudan's armed forces could not be reached for comment. UNAMID spokeswoman Josephine Guerrero said the Sudanese government asked a 196-strong contingent of UNAMID peacekeepers yesterday afternoon to withdraw from the town, but had not given a reason for the request.
She said the UN and African Union's joint special representative in Darfur, Rodolphe Adada, had flown back to Sudan from a conference in Ethiopia to try and persuade Sudan's government to change its mind.
--more--""UN troops remain despite Darfur attack
CAIRO - Sudanese forces bombed the outskirts of a rebel-held town in southern Darfur yesterday as the UN secretary general said peacekeepers would not heed a government request to leave the area.
Some 5,000 residents were taking refuge around the peacekeepers' compound, the spokesman for the peacekeepers, Nourredine Mezni, confirmed. Sudan told the peacekeepers on Sunday to leave so government forces could retake the town after rebels seized it. It was Sudan's first such request, UN officials said - and a challenge to the fragile international mission.
So the U.N. is PROTECTING the INSURGENTS, 'er, MILITANTS, uh, I mean, "rebels?"
But UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said the joint UN-African Union peacekeeping force will remain in the town of Muhajeria. He said all sides needed to show restraint and urged the rebels to pull out of town.
"I urge maximum restraint on President Omar al-Bashir and have urged the Justice and Equality Movement rebels to withdraw from the city to protect innocent civilians," Ban told journalists in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa.
But rebel spokesman Ahmed Tugod said his forces, which captured the town Jan. 15, would stay and fight. Both Tugod and Mezni confirmed that government planes were bombing the outskirts of the town, which has about 30,000 people.
Strange how I don't recall the MSM reporting the taking of the town.
Sudanese forces frequently bomb rebel areas in Darfur, despite a UN Security Council ban on military flights over the region.
Of course, ISRAEL can BUZZ LEBANON every day or bomb Gaza whenever it wants to and not a peep out of the UN.
The peacekeeping force is there to protect civilians displaced by the six-year civil war in Sudan's arid western region.
Or so the MSM lie and cover story claims.
"Sudan says rebel-held town near Darfur peacekeeping force is retaken
KHARTOUM, Sudan - After warning a Darfur peacekeeping mission to get out of the way, Sudan retook a rebel-held town in the unstable region, the country's military spokesman said yesterday.
Government forces started bombing the town of Muhajeria earlier this week, even as the United Nations-African Union peacekeepers, with the support of UN secretary general, refused to leave and several thousand residents took refuge at their compound.
It was the first time Sudan has asked the peacekeepers in Darfur to step aside. The Sudanese government did not let a separate peacekeeping mission travel to Muhajeria on Tuesday to evaluate the damage and casualties, citing "security concerns," said Josephine Guerraro, a spokeswoman for the joint peacekeeping force, known as UNAMID.
The peacekeeping force is there to protect civilians displaced by the six-year civil war in Darfur.
Then how come they never do?
But Sudan regularly challenges the UN's presence in the country.
As they SHOULD, being a SOVEREIGN NATION!
It was unclear when the Sudanese military recaptured Muhajeria. Military spokesman Brigadier Osman al-Aghbash said government forces were still "combing the area and chasing" the rebels, who seized the town last month.
--more--"So WHAT isn't the MSM telling you, readers, and why must I REPEATEDLY have to go to BLOGS for the TRUTH?
"Pirates receive $3.2M for Israeli ship
Tue, 03 Feb 2009 17:28:54 GMT
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The Israeli-owner of a Ukrainian-flagged arms-loaded ship held by Somali pirates pays 3.2 million dollars in return for the vessel’s release.
The MV Faina and its crew– 17 Ukrainians, three Russians and one Latvian national-were captured on September 25 in the notorious Somali waters.
The vessel was carrying a cargo of 33 Soviet-type battle tanks, rocket launchers and ammunition, allegedly expected to reach rebels in the Sudanese violent Darfur region.
On Tuesday, a plane from South Africa carrying $ 3.2 million dropped the demanded ransom onto the Faina upon an agreement between the pirates and the ship’s owner, Press TV correspondent reported.
The pirates said they will release the ship in a few hours, as soon as they count the sum and confirm there are no warships to hunt them. The news comes after the Israeli owner of the vessel had earlier refused to hold talks with the bandits, who had repeatedly threatened the lives of the crew members unless they were paid a multi-million ransom.
The capture of the arms-laden ship four months ago triggered a controversy over the cargo’s final destination. The pirates’ spokesman Sugule Ali said in October that the ship was originally destined for Sudan using the Kenyan port city of Mombasa as a stopover.
Sudan’s state media also revealed the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), Darfur’s most powerful rebel group, has received considerably heavy military logistical support from Israel.
Sudan: Israel arming Darfur rebels
Israel has supplied a rebel group involved in the Darfur conflict in Sudan with a considerable amount of weaponry, a new report says. The Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) has received considerably heavy military logistical support from Israel, Sudan’s state media reported on Sunday.
The shipment has been sent through France, which is in charge of training military personal inside neighboring Chad, the Sudanese Media Center, a news outlet with links to Sudan’s security service said. France maintains a 1,650 soldier mission to Chad as part of the EUFOR mission to protect refugees who have fled the conflict in Darfur in neighboring Sudan.
That's the COVER for DISTRIBUTING WEAPONS -- "protecting people."
The JEM which seized the city of Muhageriya about two weeks ago is considered Darfur’s most powerful rebel group. The group managed to capture the city form forces loyal to the Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) faction of Minni Minawi, which is the only rebel group to have signed a peace deal with Khartoum.
Sudan accuses Chad of providing military and logistical support for the rebel group’s attacks on Southern Darfur. Chad, however, blames Sudan for the creation of the Union of Resistance Forces, an umbrella group for the main Chadian rebel factions created in late January 2008.
The two neighbors broke off diplomatic relations last year, with each accusing the other of supporting rebel assaults on their capitals. Although relations were re-established in November, ties still remain tense between the two central African nations.
And CUI BONO?
Isn't DIVIDE and CONQUER a RULE for CONTROLLING PEOPLE and thus RESOURCES?
I find the intrigue all so interesting when we know it is ISRAEL who is running guns in there!
But why would they do that to Sudan?
".... Sudan (a Muslim nation with an independent foreign policy which supports Palestinian rights). To an overwhelming degree, the propaganda campaign behind the so-called “Darfur genocide campaign’ is the Israeli state and its political apparatus in the US, namely the Zionist Power Configuration. Most of the media celebrities, led by prominent Hollywood Zionist director Steven Spielberg, have engaged in an exercise of selective moral indignation – supporting Israel, while ignoring its starvation blockade of Gaza, supporting the US occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq while attacking China for its ‘immoral’ oil contracts with the Sudan.
The CPMAJO has focused on the Darfur ‘genocide’ because by doing so it favors the brutal separatists in southern Sudan, armed and advised by Israel, as a means of depriving pro-Palestinian Sudan of a large oil rich region in the south of the country. The Darfur campaign deliberately and systematically excludes any mention of the Israeli Supreme Court’s approval of Israel’s food and fuel blockade and deliberate prevention of the movement of medical personnel in Gaza and the West Bank, its approval of Israel’s practice of torture (‘forceful interrogations’), armed assaults on the vital infrastructure and civilian population centers of Gaza. Hollywood’s Darfur sideshow is a sham propaganda effort at selective humanitarian concern...."
"An inkling of hope, justice for Darfur" by Rebecca Hamilton | February 21, 2009
THE PRE-TRIAL chamber of the International Criminal Court is soon expected to formally announce an arrest warrant against the president of Sudan, Omar Al Bashir, for crimes in Darfur. When word reaches Darfuri refugees over short-wave radio, a rare cry of jubilation will echo across their sprawling camps. As 33-year-old Amira of Oure Cassoni camp told me: "Only if Omar Al Bashir is arrested can there be peace in Sudan."
In the short term, Amira's hope is unlikely to be fulfilled. It is the Sudanese government's responsibility to execute the arrest warrant, and it will not hand over its own president anytime soon. And yet the court's announcement should not be dismissed as (yet more) words in lieu of action.
I wonder when they are going to get around to Israel's war-criminal leaders.
Khartoum is terrified of the court. In the seven months since the ICC prosecutor announced he was seeking an arrest warrant against Bashir, Khartoum has gone to extraordinary lengths to stop the case.
Their government sounds just like Israel's!
It has promised to allow jurists from neighboring countries to oversee prosecutions it claims to be conducting in relation to crimes in Darfur. This week, it even signed a "confidence-building agreement" with one of the Darfur rebel groups. These apparent concessions are unlikely to reflect any genuine shift in Khartoum's approach to Darfur. However, they speak volumes about the power the Sudanese government attributes to the ICC.
The court began its first trial only last month. It has no police force, and depends on states to carry out its orders. Why does an embryonic institution with no independent enforcement mechanism instill such fear in one of the world's most brutal regimes? Because in at least the 108 states that have signed up to the court, and in several more that have not yet joined, the ICC's judicial authority is seen as legitimate.
Let's see if she mentions that the U.S. has NOT SIGNED, nor does it recognize ICC authority!
Despite multiple condemnations by human-rights groups and the US government's determination that the situation in Darfur was genocide, law-abiding states have not united against the actions of the Sudanese government.
That's because WORDS are CHEAP -- especially when they are LIES!!
Many governments have been unwilling to jeopardize their economic and diplomatic relationships with Khartoum by pointing the finger. China, for instance, has feared the disruption of its oil contracts with Sudan. And Khartoum has masterfully exploited the resulting divisions in the international community.
The HYPOCRITICAL CHUTZPAH gets to you after a while, readers.
An arrest warrant against Bashir can change all this: No longer does the dividing line have to be between those who criticize the Sudanese government and those who do not. Instead it can be about those who want to align themselves with legally punishable behavior and those who reject it. Overnight, the costs of lining up silently alongside Khartoum have increased.
And the cost of lining up with war-criminal Iz-ray-HELL?
Ahead of the court's announcement, even those who have perpetrated some of the massive crimes in Darfur have started to abandon Khartoum. In video footage released by the Aegis Trust last week, one former commander begins his testimony about the atrocities by stating: "The Sudanese Government, all time said, no genocide there, no rape there. I am from the PDF -- Janjaweed -- I want to tell the world the truth."
Would that one day we see an Israeli soldier doing the same in my Zionist-controlled s*** sheet!
Following the announcement, we may see allegiances shift away from Bashir within Sudan's ruling National Congress Party. Of course a power struggle alone is no solution; those who would vie for the leadership of the party have as bad, if not worse, human rights credentials than Bashir himself. However, the warrant may at least deter anyone with leadership aspirations from the behavior that led to Bashir's indictment.
Even a small increase in the vigor with which the crimes in Darfur are condemned could lead to behavioral change in Khartoum. No one in the ruling party wants their government to be an international pariah.
Israel's leaders obviously don't give a shit, so why should Sudan's?
If the price for avoiding this is to ensure that Sudanese citizens are not the victims of mass atrocity in the future, then it is a price that Khartoum's current and aspiring political leaders may well be willing to pay - even before Bashir is in the dock.
And what of PALESTINE'S RESIDENTS?
Do THEY get a FULL-OP in the Zionist War Daily?
Rebecca Hamilton is a fellow at the Open Society Institute. She has worked with displaced populations in Sudan and is writing a book about the impact of citizen advocacy on Darfur policy.
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For the record, I'm not in favor of ANY KILLING at all; however, I now seriously wonder and question the veracity of reports regarding Sudan in my Zionist-controlled, agenda-pushing, war-promoting, enemy-creating scitte sheets.
And if it is such a deplorable issue, why is absent from my shit-shoveling MSM paper for the next week?
Oh, right, gotta hide and conceal that Israeli weapons-smuggling operation that is turning the area into a bloodbath.
