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Skriven 2004-08-11 20:28:35 av Ed Connell (1:379/1.6)
   Kommentar till text 1233 av Jeff Binkley (1:226/600)
Ärende: Re: Principles ?
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Hey, Jeff.

Take a look at these Arab articles.  Who do they sound like? <g>
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Al-Ahram Al-Arabi Weekly: 'Sudan is the Key to the American Voting Booths'

The Egyptian government w eekly magazine Al-Ahram Al-Arabi published an
investigative report by Dr. Amani Al-Tawil titled: "The Key to the American
Voting Booths is in Darfur: The Plot which is Called 'Oil.'"

"The fast locomotive of the Western intervention, led by the U.S., is about
to pull into the Darfur station in Sudan : where there is no separation
between political and humanitarian issues. While the experts in Washington,
London, and Khartoum are toying with the fate of more than a million
Sudanese, displaced and scattered in the desert, the new amateur Sudanese
politicians, the sons of Darfur, who visited the capitals of the world, have
been intoxicated by the political and media glory and have lost their
ability to present a coherent political agenda.

"The question is why did Colin Powell, the American Secretary of State, grab
the ball from the U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan's court in this race to
Darfur and [why he] mobilized behind him the European Union in an attempt to
score the 'goal' of imposing international sanctions on Sudan? Why didn't
Washington give the agreement that was signed last April between the
government of Khartoum and the U.N. a chance [that may have saved] more than
a million Sudanese from the threats of death, hunger, drowning in the vast
desert [sands] of Darfur or dying in the refugee camps in Chad?

"The answers are not far from the American voting booths, and as usual they
are not far from the oil barrel. Bush is awaiting his fate in November, and
the U.S. is planning to make Darfur an easy path towards its major plan to
transport the [Persian] Gulf oil and the African oil to the shores of the
Atlantic Ocean, so that Washington can meet its needs in the next decade:

"In the American election game the Democrats are trying to strip away from
the American president the remaining 'fig leaf' that is covering [his
policies] in the Middle East, and to expose him in front of the American
electorate. The signing of a peace treaty in Southern Sudan [is meant to
help Bush] after [his] drowning in the Iraqi swamps and failing with his
Palestinian Road Map. The only outlet that Colin Powell could find from the
pressure that the Democrats in Congress [have been applying] on Bush was
Powell's statement that his country was seeking to impose sanctions on Sudan
and that it accused [Sudan] of ethnic cleansing and genocide, even though
Powell's position in early July was different, when he stated that the
situation in Darfur did not reach the level of ethnic cleansing or
genocide...

"It is possible that Powell's withdrawal from his [earlier] political
position, his lack of credibility, and his concern regarding Bush's election
needs were the reasons for Egypt's intervention in Darfur's problem. Egypt
insisted during the talks between President Husni Mubarak and the American
Secretary of State, Colin Powell, that Darfur's problem should not be
internationalized to a point that requires direct military intervention, as
threatened by the British Prime Minister Tony Blair who said that he was
ready to send 5000 troops to Darfur immediately.

"In its political position, Cairo maintains that the direct intervention in
Iraq did not lead to true security and stability. To the contrary, [it]
opened the door wide for the outbreak of a civil war. Also, Iraq turned into
an arena of clashes between the remnants of Al-Qa'ida's army and numerous
other cells and the American military machine. Furthermore, Cairo maintains
that the situation in Sudan is delicate and threatens the stability of its
neighbors in the region and puts Cairo and Tripoli in danger not only from
the Sudanese gangs, but also from Al-Qa'ida cells that exist there:

"Also, the needs of the American industrial sector are not too far from the
Darfur 'pie.' The fact is that the American delegation that accompanied
Colin Powell included businessmen and representatives of the oil companies,
despite the fact that the American administration declared that the reasons
for the [American] intervention [in Darfur] are humanitarian, first and
foremost:

"The goals of the American oil companies are two-fold: First, removing the
South-East Asian oil cartels from Sudan, since the Sudanese oil production
will reach half a million barrels per day at the beginning of next year.
This, following the signing last week of an agreement between the Sudanese
Office of Energy and Mines and Petrodar, the c ompany which heads another
oil cartel that includes 15 companies, most of them Chinese, Malaysian and
European.

"Second, the American oil companies plan, after stability in Iraq is
obtained, to extend the oil pipeline from the Arabian Gulf through the Saudi
port of Yanbu' to the port city of 'Arous in Sudan, and [from there] through
Darfur to Chad where it [will link to] the existing pipeline that begins in
Daba oil fields in Chad and goes to the Atlantic Ocean, therefore securing
an oil flow for American needs.

"The needs of the American industrial sector are not limited to [securing] a
safe passage for the oil through Africa, but aims also at limiting the
French presence in Africa. This, following America's success in removing
France from the area of Al-Buheirat Al-'Uzma [the Great Lakes], it is now
hoping to eliminate the French presence in Chad and Sudan, since France did
not act as politically expected of her in the Darfur problem:"

Al-Ahram Weekly: 'An American Conspiracy to Control the Sudanese Oil'

An editorial in the Egyptian government English-language magazine Al-Ahram
Weekly

"No observer could possibly deny that conditions in Darfur in western Sudan
are sharply deteriorating. The war-stricken region is undeniably
experiencing a humanitarian catastrophe, facilitated by the absence of an
effective central government.

"Even more alarming, however, is the increasing discourse claiming that the
Sudanese government is undertaking operations of ethnic cleansing against
the inhabitants of Darfur, and especially against non-Arab tribes. Such
claims are made despite the fact that there is no international
investigative committee or an official United Nations report [claiming that
such ethnic cleansing exists]...

"The decision of the United States Congress to impose sanctions will
negatively impact the Sudanese people and can, therefore, only be seen as an
act of collective punishment. The suspicion in the Arab world is that the
U.S.' eagerness to intervene in Darfur is an American conspiracy to gain
control of Sudanese oil."



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