Nothing about that here; a MORE IMPORTANT item bubbles forth....
"Panel’s Sudan decision expected to boost treaty; North secures oil fields while south gets tribal lands" by Edmund Sanders, Los Angeles Times | July 23, 2009
NAIROBI - In a ruling many hope will bolster Sudan’s fragile north-south peace agreement, an international arbitration panel yesterday awarded the northern-led government control of several key disputed oil fields while giving large swaths of contested grazing lands to the south.
Then they can feed the refugees, right?
The split decision regarding the oil-rich region of Abyei was seen as a boost to the 2005 US-brokered peace treaty between the Khartoum-based regime and former southern rebels in the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement.
I'm already distrustful of the deal!
Very INTERESTING LOCATION!
"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?
No wonder East Africa is all f***ed up!
And remember:
"General Wesley Clark, who commanded the North Atlantic Treaty Organization bombing campaign in the Kosovo war, recalls in his 2003 book Winning Modern Wars being told by a friend in the Pentagon in November 2001 that the list of states that Rumsfeld and deputy secretary of defense Paul Wolfowitz wanted to take down included Iraq, Iran, Syria, Libya, Sudan and Somalia [and Lebanon]."
Despite reaching a cease-fire and agreeing to form a power-sharing government, northern and southern troops fought briefly last year as a result of unresolved questions about who would control Abyei along the north-south border. Many worried the dispute could reignite Sudan’s 21-year civil war.
Officials in Khartoum characterized the panel’s decision yesterday as a victory. The government had rejected a previous panel’s ruling that the oil fields lay in the disputed area. Both sides agreed last year to have the matter settled by the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague.
Movement officials expressed disappointment but vowed to uphold the ruling. Under the decision, the lucrative Heglig oil fields, partly owned by the Sudanese government, will stay part of the north.
That's a cause for war!
Most of Sudan’s other known oil reserves are in the south.
Sounds like they got the best of the deal from the "international community," huh?
Analysts said the decision probably would appease northerners, who had been worried they might be left without oil in the event that southerners vote for independence in a 2011 referendum....
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So why would the West have it in for Sudan, anyway?
".... 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...."
