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How The West Was Won The rapid and unexpected decline of the Sunni insurgency in Iraq was officially recognized this week, when Maj. Gen. John Kelly, commanding the Marine Expeditionary Force, turned operational control of Anbar Province over to the Iraqi army and police. Anbar, a vast expanse of desert the size of North Carolina, had been the stronghold of the Sunni insurgency. For years, foreign fighters loyal to al-Qaida had sneaked across Iraq's northwestern border with Syria, into Anbar and down a "rat line" of safe houses in Haditha, Ramadi and Hit. From Fallujah, the arch terrorist Zarqawi...

TRIPOLI, Libya - Hijackers in Sudan's wartorn Darfur region seized a jetliner carrying nearly 100 people, including local Darfur officials, and forced it to land at a World War II-era airfield in the heart of the Sahara Desert in neighboring Libya, officials said. A Libyan official at the remote Kufra airport said there were 10 hijackers belonging to a Darfur rebel group and were demanding enough fuel for the Boeing 737 to continue to France. -snip-

ALERT - Sudanese plane hijacked: pirates want to go to Paris TRIPOLI - The hijackers who hijacked on Libya a Sudanese plane, with more than 100 people on board, require fuel to go to Paris, said in the night from Tuesday to Wednesday a Libyan airport source. ALERT - The hijackers claimed to belong to the SLA Abdel Wahid Mohammed Nur TRIPOLI - The hijackers who hijacked on Libya a Sudanese plane, with more than 100 people on board, belonging to the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLA) Abdel Wahid Mohammed Nur who lives in Paris, said on the night from...

Arab Racism According to the literal Arabic translation of Sura 3:106, 107, on Judgment Day, only people with white faces will be saved. People with black faces will be damned. http://www.bible.ca/islam/islam-koran-fairy-tales-dr-morey.htm  Arabs are the chosen people of Allah; Allah resembles an Arab.–ibn Sa’d, vol.1, p.2. Allah favours Arab racism—prophet is to be of Quraysh stock and of white complexion (ibn Sa’d, vol.1, p.95-96, Sahih Muslim, 20.4483. http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=2297E37D-87C3-492E-8E5D-1808AF77F703  The Quran and hadiths all say kill non muslims. Sura 8:12 says cut off the heads and Sura 9:1-30 says kill them. Sura 8:60 says Jews and Christians are apes and pigs....

The Genocidal Islamic monster Al-Bashir warns to harm peacekeepers if 'arrest is issued'     Sudanese president is defiant in Darfur visitThe Associated Press - Jul 23, 2008... one day after a presidential adviser warned that aid workers and peacekeepers might not be safe in Darfur if an arrest warrant is issued for al-Bashir. ...http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5inqUzmH0M_JwO_wre74Z0-3h3-2gD923KSIG0   Warlord frequented local bar in disguiseThe Kingston Whig-Standard, Canada - Jul 24, 2008A senior Sudanese official is warning that aid workers and peacekeepers might not be safe in Darfur if an arrest warrant is issued for the country's ...http://www.thewhig.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1127571   They Said ItWednesday, July...

Pentagon Makes Fighting Extremism Top Priority Seven years after the Sept. 11 attacks, the Pentagon on Thursday officially named "the long war" against global extremism as its top priority and pledged to avert any conventional military threat from China or Russia through dialogue. The Defense Department, in a new national defense strategy, also emphasized the need to subordinate military operations to "soft power" initiatives to undermine Islamist militancy by promoting economic, political and social development in vulnerable corners of the world. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said he hoped the change would help establish permanent institutional support for counterinsurgency skills...

Farrakhan's Sudan Connection Farrakhan’s support to the Sudanese slave masters is yet another example of his utterly reactionary program and purpose.http://www.therant.us/guest/jonsson/2008/02022008.htm

A major offensive involving 300 Sudanese government battlewagons intended to clear space for Red Chinese oil exploration in Darfur's far north has begun, according to rebel commanders who have come under attack. Oil companies have been waiting for the Government to secure the region before starting work on seismic surveys. The claims of fresh fighting come after Omar al-Bashir, the Sudanese President, embarked on a two-day peace mission to Darfur last month, promising investment and inviting rebel leaders to talks. His visit took place days after the International Criminal Court's prosecutor accused him of genocide, murder and crimes against humanity....

CBS White-Washes Muslim Role in Darfur Genocide Yesterday 60 Minutes Covered the Genocide going on in the Darfur region of the Sudan. They did a terrific job of showing the horrors going on in Darfur, the rapes and murder, but they chickened out when it came to discussing who was perpetrating the violence. They used the term "Arab racism." The words Islam and/or Muslim were never mentioned even though the conflict has its roots in Islamic doctrine and the northern Muslim/ southern non-Muslim divide. Hell, the Sudan isn't even an Arab nation!Then to make matter's worse, they found a way...

BEIJING -- Just when it seemed that nothing good could pierce the gloomy, gray haze that stifles this city, just when the U.S. Olympic Committee set the bar of foolishness and political expediency higher than any gold medalist will ever jump, a story comes along to remind the world that the Olympics, though appallingly commercialized, still have great redemptive power. The captains of the U.S. teams participating in the Beijing Games soared above the pettiness of their elders Wednesday when they chose 1,500-meter runner Lopez Lomong, a Sudanese refugee who was abducted from his church at age 6 and targeted...

China Revokes Visa of Gold Medalist Joey Cheek Hall Of Fame Magazine, MA - Aug 6, 2008 Sudan's militant Muslim regime has slaughtered millions of Christians and other non-Muslims who refuse to convert to Islam.

BEIJING (Reuters) - The United States chose former Sudanese refugee Lopez Lomong to carry their flag at Friday’s Olympic opening ceremony in a move that could embarrass Sudan and its ally China. Lomong, who spent 10 years in a refugee camp after fleeing his native Sudan as a child, was given the honor after a vote by the team captains of the entire U.S. Olympic squad. “This is the most exciting day ever in my life,” Lomong said in a statement by the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) on Wednesday. “It is a great honor for me that my team...

This is an amazing and heartwarming story about a Sudanese 'lost boy' who escaped death, was saved by Catholic Charities, fulfilled his dream of becoming an American citizen and is now representing America on the Olympic track team. Lopez Lomong ran to save his life one night when he was just a boy. And now he's running to represent the country he loves and to thank his foster parents and the Catholic Charities workers who helped save him. It's not likely the pressure of the Olympics will get to Lopez Lomong. He has, after all, visited his own grave. Seventeen...

When Bill Gates and Michael Bloomberg announced a new antismoking campaign the other day, they put their money in line with their mouths. The former Microsoft chairman and the mayor of New York together pledged $500 million to target what Mr. Gates called "one of the greatest health challenges facing developing countries." AP This Blackwater helicopter could become an angel of hope. The same day they were announcing their campaign, the president of Sudan was on a visit to Darfur. Presumably it was his way of responding to news that the prosecutor for the International Criminal Court is seeking an...

JOHANNESBURG (AFP) — South African President Thabo Mbeki said Saturday that Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir must not be prosecuted for war crimes, for fear of upsetting the peace process in Darfur. Mbeki said Beshir's continued presence as head of state was also required to assist Sudan's general post-civil war security. "It is important that both of those processes should proceed and both of them require the very active participation of President Beshir," Mbeki told South African public television in an interview given Friday in Bordeaux, France, where he had attended a European Union-South Africa summit. "I don't know how they...

<p>BBC NEWS | Africa | Profile: Sudan's President Bashir Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir came to power in an Islamist-backed coup in 1989. Since then he has introduced elements of Sharia law which are opposed by ...</p> <p>Arab racism: 'We Want to Make a Light Baby' (washingtonpost.com) The New York-based organization Human Rights Watch said in a June 22 report that it investigated "the use of rape by both Janjaweed and Sudanese soldiers ...</p>

Lebanese Hezbollah Holds Meeting in Support of Sudanese President - Hezbollah pledges support for Omar Al Bashir and the Sudanese Government Text of report by Lebanese National News Agency website [LNNA headline: "Hezbollah organizes consultative meeting in support of Sudan and its President Umar al-Bashir"] A consultative meeting was held this morning at the invitation of Hezbollah. The meeting, which included nationalist parties, Palestinian factions, local figures and organizations, and the charge d'affaires of the Sudanese Embassy at the head of a delegation, was held in support of Sudan and its President Umar Hasan al-Bashir. The meeting was first addressed...

AFRICA INSIGHT - Locking up Sudan’s Al-Bashir could let in some light into war-torn Darfur Story by OKELLO OCULI Publication Date: 7/25/2008 The charges brought by the International Criminal Court against Sudan President Hassan al Bashir present a crack for sunlight to shine through the dark clouds of official terrorism perpetrated for over two decades by the Khartoum regime against helpless peasants, writes OKELLO OCULI “The oil found in Darfur will turn into a curse for the region, bringing about the loss of many lives, hand in hand with large-scale land alienation and devastation,” so wrote Prof Fouad Ibrahim...

Halima Bashir The village seemed to be strangely quiet, almost as if it were holding its breath, awaiting something. I was discussing supplies we needed for the clinic when I heard a distant commotion. There were faint cries and the pounding of running feet. I wondered, fearfully, if it was an attack. Suddenly, I caught sight of a crowd of people surging out of the marketplace. Among them were figures carrying heavy burdens in their arms. As the crowd drew closer, I realised what they were carrying: it was the girls from the village school. I could see heads lolling...

IN A LITTLE-NOTICED DECISION in a New York courtroom on September 25, 2003, a man described as Osama bin Laden's "best friend" got some good news. U.S. District Court Judge Deborah Batts ruled that Mahmdouh Mahmud Salim could not be sentenced to life in prison. Salim--who was present at the founding of al Qaeda in 1989 and who was for years one of bin Laden's most trusted confidants--had been captured in Germany in 1998 and extradited to the United States for prosecution related to his role in the grand conspiracy that resulted in the 1998 bombings at U.S. embassies in...

NYALA, Sudan (AFP) - Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir danced before thousands of supporters in Darfur on Wednesday, defying a possible arrest warrant for genocide on a heavily-protected visit to the war-torn area. Travelling by plane and in a convoy of army, police and national security vehicles mounted with guns and backed by air support, Beshir was greeted by thousands of supporters in state capitals El Fasher and Nyala. --snip-- School pupils were recruited for the rally and one government employee told AFP in El Fasher that staff were ordered to a disused land under the sun, where a grinning Beshir...

Arabs.. racism.. it exists...word 'abd - Arabic for "slave" - often used in our household... so common ..its negative connotations.. to anyone darker skin than themselves - from southern Sudanese house servants to migrants from Darfur- clear intent to demean.. addressing a particularly dark-skinned or thick-lipped child.was a kind of racism that no one challenged, addressed,..through a child's eyes.. on a scale of colour, lighter was good, darker was bad. The word 'abd, although strictly meaning "slave" or "servant", became synonymous with negritude. my Islamic heritage reinforced this with quotes from Muhammad such as "You should listen to and obey...

The gay bishop of New Hampshire should resign in order to save the Anglican Communion, a senior African archbishop said today. The call came from the Rt Rev Dr Daniel Deng, the archbishop of Sudan, and followed a strongly worded statement that accused the US Episcopal church of exposing Anglicans to ridicule and damaging their credibility in a multi-religious environment. African bishops who signed the statement rejecting homosexual practice said they could not accept it as part of their church. They reiterated their opposition to developments in the US and Canada, where gay clergy are ordained and where same-sex relationships...

July 20, 2008 (WASHINGTON) — A shipment of new Russian MIG-29 tactical fighters has recently arrived into Sudan from Belarus, a source familiar with the matter told Sudan Tribune today. The source who spoke on condition of anonymity said that a dozen MIG-29 combat fighters were shipped discreetly by planes through a Belarusian company two weeks ago. However he could not confirm whether the fighters were actually sold by Belarus or they simply came through the East European country. The planes are now in the Wadi Sayedna air base, the source added. Belarus is one of the Sudan armament providers....

Sudan's Bashir 'masterminded' genocide: Prosecutor UN to withdraw staff as backlash fears grow Steven Edwards, Canwest News Service Published: Monday, July 14, 2008 UNITED NATIONS - The chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Court formally accused the Sudanese president Monday of being the “mastermind” of what he called a genocidal campaign against three ethnic groups in Sudan’s western Darfur region.... They are expected to take about three months to review the evidence, which Moreno-Ocampo says shows al-Bashir used the Sudanese army and members of the Arab Janjaweed militias to escalate a conflict that has left 300,000 dead and driven 2.5...

July 15, 208 (KHARTOUM) — The United Nations urged hundreds of staff to stay at home on Tuesday as crowds of Sudanese protested against war crimes charges levelled against their president by an international prosecutor.

A simple question, What if it was not the Arabs, not the Muslims (OPEC) that control the world's energy? What if the oil tycoons were of a different background, say Irish Catholic or Jewish? Could you imagine how they would be lynched [in the media and all tools of public opinion]? But it's "only" Arabs, Muslims, and they can do whatever they want, limit or extend production of oil. Worst is of course the immense unlimited power they enjoy in being permitted to continue "business" as usual... in the "field" of crimes against humanity... No one ever dares speaks out...

SUDANESE President Omar al-Beshir danced, punched the air in delight with his walking stick and shouted 'God is Great' in his first public appearance today as a war crimes suspect. Hours after being named by the International Criminal Court prosecutor over alleged crimes and genocide in Darfur, Beshir appeared to have hardly a care in the world at an elaborate ceremony to ink Sudan's new electoral law. The message was clear: in Sudan, it was business as usual. Sitting on a high podium in the giant Chinese-built Friendship Hall in Khartoum before more than 500 supporters and Sudan's most senior...

Arab League members are beside themselves. The idea that Arab regimes and leaders might be held accountable for indiscriminate murders, racism and genocide is an intolerable notion- emp- SC&A

Text of report by private Sudanese newspaper Al-Ra'y al-Amm on 12 July Sudan's Permanent Representative to the UN, Abd-al-Mahmud Abd-al-Halim, has revealed that there are two directions inside the UN Security Council regarding the new arrest warrants of the International Criminal Court [ICC] [against high-ranking Sudanese officials]. The first is led by China and Russia who are calling on [ICC Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-] Ocampo to refrain from demanding the arrest of high-ranking officials and the other is led by the US, France and Britain who support this. Abd-al-Halim told Al-Ra'y al-Amm that China and Russia were seeking to issue...

The chief prosecutor of the Internationals Criminal Court will seek an arrest warrant Monday for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, charging him with genocide and crimes against humanity in the orchestration of a campaign of violence that led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of civilians in the nation's Darfur region during the past five years, according to U.N. officials and diplomats.

In the end, the Chinese government does not really care about the escalating violence in Sudan. As long as its investments and workers in Sudan are protected, it views the human rights issues as an internal Sudanese matter. In fact, the CCP is most likely sympathetic to the Sudanese government; after all, China has also been a victim lately of what the CCP would consider to be international ‘meddling’ in the case of Tibet. The CCP’s failure to promote positive change in Sudan is simply a manifestation of its own failures in China. Until China can improve the human rights...

SOME HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE RELIGION OF 'PEACE' IN JUST ONE WEEK [End of July 2008]   Pakistan, Islamic Bombing in the capital Islamabad. Pakistan police arrest 4 bomb suspectsCNN International - Jul 8, 2008More than 100 people died when Pakistani security forces stormed the mosque on July 10, 2007, ending a weeklong standoff between military forces and Islamic ...http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/07/08/karachi.blast/   Palestinians Hamas [despite of 'truce' pact with Israel's Defense Forces, continue to] shoot missiles upon Israeli civilians.Palestinians shoot at Nahal Oz farmers Ynetnewshttp://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3564613,00.html   Muslim - Arabs in Israel arrested for supplying info and 'targets' for Al Qaeda.Two Israeli Arabs...

Arab militia briefly abduct UN peacekeeper in Darfur Jun 18, 2008 KHARTOUM (AFP) — Armed Arab militiamen briefly abducted a member of the UN-led peacekeeping mission in Darfur on Wednesday, the latest in a series of attacks in the six months since the ill-equipped force deployed. "A UNAMID staff member was abducted, stripped of official and personal belongings, and physically assaulted by members of an armed Arab militia," said the joint United Nations-African Union mission in Darfur in a statement.

African Immigrants Among Obama's Enthusiastic Backers By Darryl FearsWashington Post Staff Writer Sunday, July 6, 2008; Page A08 A catered fundraiser for Sen. Barack Obama was held recently at Duke's City, an upscale restaurant and bar nestled amid the hip new condominiums in the District's U Street corridor, where up-and-coming white professionals are slowly taking over an area that was once mostly black. But the owner of Duke's City, Donato Sinaci, is not one of Obama's many young, white supporters. And the host of the event, Michael Endale, is not a native-born black American. They are members of Ethiopians for...

A conversation with Mia Farrow and Bernard-Henri Lévy, moderated by Dinaw Mengestu | June 2008 Part 1: French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy on how 3 great ideas of the political left have backfired on the people of Darfur The following Guernica program took place at PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature, on April 29, 2008, at Flourence Gould Hall in New York City. This is the first of three parts. To listen to the program in its entirety, please go here. Runs about 90 minutes. Dinaw Mengestu: The title of this conversation is Crisis Darfur, and I can’t quite give...

UNITED NATIONS (AFP) - A US human rights activist on Tuesday warned China that it risked rebel attacks against its oil interests in Sudan unless it put pressure on its ally Khartoum to end the violence in Darfur and south Sudan. ADVERTISEMENT John Prendergast told reporters that Beijing, a veto-wielding council member which has close energy ties with Khartoum, has a "disproportionate responsibility" in helping find a settlement to the conflicts in Darfur and south Sudan. "They (the Chinese) must fulfil that or else we are going to see Sudan burn and one of the first things that is going...

The Hunt for American al Qaeda The United States is turning up the heat in the hunt for the California boy turned al Qaeda operative, Adam Gadahn, who has been charged with treason and is believed to be hiding in Afghanistan. If caught and convicted, Gadahn could face the death penalty. The State Department along with the Department of Diplomatic Security announced the beginning of a publicity campaign in Afghanistan urging locals to provide any information on Gadahn's whereabouts, with a reward if the information leads to his capture. Radio advertisements with information concerning the $1 million reward have...

June 15, 2008 (WASHINGTON) – The leader of Darfur Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) lashed out at Sudan ruling party accusing it of not being serious about seeking peace in the war ravaged region. “We entered into repeated negotiations rounds; more than 10 in Abuja, Nigeria [2006]. But all these attempts on ceasefire and reaching peace failed due to the stubbornness of the Sudanese government” Khalil Ibrahim said in an interview aired yesterday on the Al-Jazeera Arabic language television. “Therefore the hope for reaching peace in Darfur and all over Sudan has faded. The government is totally unconcerned with what...

It just shows what is wrong with our media. The front pages of most newspapers last week carried a story about a horrific plane crash in the Sudan that cost 100 lives. While this tragedy was certainly newsworthy, hardly a single media outlet has been covering the real story in Africa’s largest country that could turn into a human catastrophe for millions of its non-Muslim citizens. A twenty-year civil war between the Sudan’s Arab and Islamic North and Christian and animist African South that ended with the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) in 2005 is set to explode again. Fighting broke...

Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, briefed the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) in an open meeting June 5 about his investigation regarding Darfur. He spoke of massive atrocities being committed there and warned, “The entire Darfur region is a crime scene.” The Brazilian lawyer said that the Government of Sudan is not cooperating in the arrest and surrender of the two suspects the Court has indicted, Ahmad Harun and Ali Kushayb. He asked the Security Council to make it clear that the two fugitives, and those who protect them, will not receive leniency from the international...

All so far, although they are announcing it was an Airbus aircraft.

KHARTOUM, Sudan - A plane carrying about 200 passengers apparently veered off a runway late Tuesday and burst into flames. It was not immediately clear whether there were casualties. An Associated Press reporter at the scene said the plane arriving from Amman, Jordan apparently veered off the runway as it landed in Khartoum and then burst into flames. It was not immediately clear what airline was involved. Ambulances and fire trucks were seen rushing to the scene. Sudan has a poor aviation safety record. In July 2003, a Sudan Airways Boeing 737 en route from Port Sudan to Khartoum crashed...

Joint Statement on Sudan: Presiding Bishops Urge Prayers for Peace, International Action for Stability by The Rev. Mark S. Hanson, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and The Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, The Episcopal Church June 4, 2008 Over the past several weeks, we have watched with great sorrow as the new outbreak of violence in Sudan has threatened the resumption of widespread conflict in a nation just three years removed from decades of civil war. Our sense of foreboding is heightened because the violence has come in and around Abyei, a town whose history, resources, and proximity to the border...

Voice for the voiceless refugees By LARRY DERFNER Print Subscribe E-mail Toolbar Share article: What's this? During the highly charged protests in recent years at Columbia University over the teaching of the Israeli-Arab conflict, Simon Deng says he was "the only black person standing on the side of the Jewish students." Over lunch at McDonald's at the Tel Aviv Central Bus Station, Deng, a former Sudanese child slave who has became one of America's leading voices against slavery and genocide in his mother country, says his closest allies in New York City, where he has lived for the last two...

May 29, 2008 (WASHINGTON) — The Russian government confirmed that one of its citizens was killed during clashes that erupted near the Sudanese capital earlier this month. JPEG - 4 kb Sudanese MIG-29 during a military parade in Khartoum December 31 2007 (Sudaninside.com) Russia’s news agency (Interfax) quoted an unidentified official as saying that a retired military pilot died in combat “when his MiG-29F fighter jet was shot down by rebels”. The Russian official said that the pilot, whose name was not released, was a trainer pilot who signed a contract to work in Sudan. However it the official did...

...Detailed in the report were incidents of UN representatives denying food aid unless children granted sexual favors; exchanging food, money, cell phones, and even soap for sex; reports of children being physically forced to have sex (in the US we call that rape); and reports of children forced to participate in acts of child pornography...

Despite stance on negotiating with tyrants, U.S. lends Bashir an ear Sometime in the next few weeks, a special envoy of President Bush plans to meet with Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, whose government sheltered Osama bin Laden and pursued a scorched-earth policy in southern Sudan that resulted in more than 2 million deaths. Bashir's government has been accused by Bush of participating in a "genocide" in Darfur, the only U.S. government use of such a strong accusation. Yet Richard S. Williamson's visit to Khartoum follows a series of direct contacts by senior Bush administration officials with the Sudanese president,...

South Sudan and the problem of Arab racism in Black Africa PART I 31 Mar 2008 by AGBOTON Sudan is the microcosm of Black Africa’s unacknowledged Arab problem, a problem of racism, colonialism, enslavement and an Arab agenda of cultural, political and territorial expansion at the expense of Black Africa. ...

James D. Miller: Obama and Arab racism - 13 Mar 2008 ... I suspect there is a tremendous amount of anti-black racism in the ... They're the darkest Arabs you can find. Sudan is a terrible govt, ...