Stop the US zionist war on Sudan !

[conspiracy analyst]

Stop the US zionist war on Sudan !
Hamas is the blood in the veins of Palestine !


Hello all friends of Sudan and Palestine,

Here are a few updates on the US Zionist war on Sudan
with a few new articles and sources linked below.

PAE Lockheed, the US based PMC (private military
contractor) was given a sole source, rule breaking,
executive, secret contract to build and maintain 60
military bases ( and ?) 63 police bases in Darfur for
the largest deployment of UN troops in the world
today.

The value of the contract is about 300 million for a
year with some of the equipment and facilities being
gifted from the current collapsing US, Canadian, EU
funded 6,000 man AU occupation deployment. (1)

" Save Darfur " is lobbying Washington to pony up 724
million for the war effort.

I think about 2/3 of PAE/Lockheed is controlled by the
Carlyle group which is a massive private equity owned
military industrial conglomerate who's co founder
David Rubenstein is a funder of 'save darfur' spokes
people and their pro war activitism. (2)

The US is busy rounding up troop commitments, funding,
military and attack helicopters ( French ? ) to build
and man the bases.

French troops are deploying to the Chad -Sudan boarder
and have come under protest due to the exposed plot by
Zoe's Ark / Save Darfur France to kidnap and export
10,000 local children. (3)

Desmond Tutu, Jimmy Carter, Kofi Annan, Muhammad Yunus
and Nelson Mandela are working as neo liberal arm
twisters for Billionaire UK tycoon Branson. Getting UN
troops in to Sudan will lower and ensure Branson's
Virgin Cola and Virgin Airline material costs (Gum
Arabic, oil) at the expense of African lives.

"Save Darfur" is highly funded by a rouges gallery of
oligarch's, jewish zionist billionaires, evangelical
crusaders and multinational corporations such as
Phizer. Darfur is laden with oil, uranium, thorium,
copper, and food, pharmaceutical and cosmetic grade
gum Arabic.

US Zionists have expanded their war on China and war
on China's 'weapons of mass production' with covert,
regime overthrow, economic and propaganda warfare
against Sudan, Burma, Pakistan and the Beijing
Olympics. (4)

The US is pushing legislation and propaganda to
justify war to stop sexual violence against women.

S. 2279 full bill
http://www.womensedge.org/images/ivawafullbill.pdf

The accusation 'Genocide' is in part to trigger a
mandatory required military response from the UN
members under chapter VIII . After the destruction of
Yugoslavia and the blatant imperialism in Iraq and of
" save darfur" they need a more sensational "critical
incident" to justify troop deployments to areas of
opposition.

Some New Articles:

The US’s War In Darfur by Keith Harmon Snow
http://www.blackagendareport.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=vie w&id=447&Itemid=1

Israel in Darfur and Arab National Security By Ahmad
Hussein AS-SHIMI
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m38567&hd=&size=1&l=e

Four Misrepresentations and Omissions of the Save
Darfur! Movement By Dimitri Oram
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_dimitri__071118_four_misrepres entati.htm

American Sanctions Prevent Sudan from Writing off
World bank IMF Debts. The US has told Sudan it will
drop sanctions in 30 days if Sudan capitulates to the
invasion forces
http://www.smc.sd/en/artopic.asp?artID=20986&aCK=EA

War on sex crimes against women ?
"Battling the assault on sex crimes"
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/279378

The Holocaust Memorial Day Trust(UK) will use its
national day on 27 January to demand tougher action to
stop atrocities in Sudan.

President Bush's $724 million emergency funding
request for Darfur peacekeeping, the Save Darfur
Coalition today called on the Congress to work with
the administration to appropriate these funds before
the end of the year while protecting other
Darfur-related measures in upcoming spending bills.
http://www.ucdailynews.com/politics/10838906.html


"...Sudan is going to become Somalia on a giant
scale."

"Save Darfur senior director Amjad Atallah said the
Security Council should also discuss a foundering
peace agreement that ended a two-decade-long
north-south civil war in 2005.

Atallah said the Security Council should discuss
Darfur and the southern civil war at the same time
because if the southern agreement collapsed and civil
war resumed Sudan is going to become Somalia on a
giant scale"
Activists call for emergency U.N. meeting on Darfur
http://africa.reuters.com/world/news/usnN05273068.html

"The reader is left wanting to know more about the
politics behind the decision... Colin Powell's
characterization of the situation in Darfur as
genocide was also the first time a government had
accused another government of an ongoing genocide, as
well as the first time a government had invoked
chapter 8 of the Genocide Convention, calling on the
Security Council to address the situation. "
http://allafrica.com/stories/200711220001.html

"Early CIA Involvement in Darfur Has Gone Unreported"
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/34473.html

Many more Sudan links at 'Stop Attacking Sudan'.....

Boston Anti Zionist Action
http://www.bazabaza.blogspot.com

Thank you.

(1)
UN headquarters committee minutes of sole source
contract to PAE
http://www.innercitypress.com/hcc083107.pdf
NATO Staff Designed Lockheed's No-Bid UN Contract,
http://www.innercitypress.com/natolockheed110607.html
Lockheed's No-Bid UN Contract,
http://www.innercitypress.com/hcclockheed110207.html
No-Bid Darfur Contracts a "Troubling Pattern," PAE in
Congo
http://www.innercitypress.com/sachlockheed111207.html
For Darfur, Lockheed Martin Gets UN Sole Source
Contract
http://www.innercitypress.com/lockheed101507.html
UN Now Will Not Disclose Its No-Bid Lockheed Contract,
http://www.innercitypress.com/nobidlockheed101707.html
(2)
http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/press/press%20releases/2004/rubenstein_gift _092204.htm

http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2007/noviembre/lun12/zeiler.html
http://www.miamiair.com/default.asp
(3)
http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSL04326758
(4)
http://bazabaza.blogspot.com/2007/10/cuba-opposed-foreign-interference -in.html

[PaulStott]

ca - Its not just the zionists that are the problem when it comes to Sudan.

All is not lost though. I believe this school in Sudan now has a job vacancy:

http://www.unityhighschool.org/jobs.htm

Perhaps you should apply?

Don't take your teddy bear though.............

[blackbear]

AlicetheKurious

"Save Darfur"? It's a scam:

'Save Darfur' Pockets Cash

Joachim Martillo

Ruth Messinger advises Jewish students at Harvard Hillel on Using Humanitarian Language as Fundraising Technique

On April 27, 2007, Ruth Messinger, president and executive director of the American Jewish World Service (AJWS), was welcomed by the Harvard Jewish students' organization, Hillel, for an inspirational talk. Hillel often hosts these "invitation only" events where Jewish students can connect with important figures in politics, arts or the media. Ruth Messinger was described by the organizers as someone who "has combined a tireless commitment to public service and social justice with deep reflection on the nexus between Jewish and universal values." The talk focused on how to use human rights language to promote a positive image of "Jewishness."

...

Messinger described how out of place she felt being Jewish in home-grown America, when she attended the Oklahoma School of Social Work. She said it was like going to live in a third world country like Zimbabwe. Because she was the only Jewish activist in Oklahoma, she was called after graduation to work for the Democratic Party.

Messinger fundraises for lobbying-oriented humanitarian aid through the American Jewish World Service in New York, which is collecting money for "Save Darfur." Last year she raised approximately $31 million of which Darfur was to receive approximately $3 million. Most of the money donated for relief and development in Sudan was channeled back into Jewish lobbying efforts, Messinger admitted with very little shame, adding that AJWS has no real way to do anything for Sudan. She urged Jewish students to participate in "Save Darfur" as a way to get connected and create a "presence" in world "humanitarianism," which would engage in a coordinated Jewish effort of organizing, electing and legislating.

Students interested in electoral politics were advised to study social work, to learn how people tick. Messinger suggested that a person hoping to enter politics should hold three or four different jobs in very different fields. Avoid law school because the debt involved in getting a law degree is an obstacle to community service, she advised. Messinger mentioned that NYU forgives student loans for people going into Social Law.

Life is a work of art, Messinger concluded. Every step counts towards your future goals.

http://eaazi.blogspot.com/2007/06/profiteering-from-humanitarianism.ht ml

...The Darfur region of western Sudan has been a hotbed of clandestine activities, gunrunning and indiscriminate violence for decades. The Cold War era saw countless insurgencies launched from the remote deserts of Darfur. Throughout the 1990’s factions allied with or against Chad, Uganda, Ethiopia, Congo, Libya, Eritrea and the Central African Republic operated from bases in Darfur, and it was a regular landing strip for foreign military transport planes of mysterious origin.

In 1990, Chad's Idriss Deby launched a military blitzkrieg from Darfur and overthrew President Hissan Habre; Deby then allied with his own tribe against the Sudan government. Sudanese rebels today have bases in Chad, and Chadian rebels have bases in Darfur, with Khartoum’s backing.

When the regime of Ange-Félix Patassé collapsed in the Central African Republic in March 2003, soldiers fled to Darfur with their military equipment. Khartoum supported the West Nile Bank Front, a rebel army operating against Uganda from Eastern Congo, commanded by Taban Amin, the son of the infamous Ugandan dictator, Idi Amin, who heads Uganda’s dreaded Internal Security Organization.

Darfur is another epicenter of the modern-day international geopolitical scramble for Africa’s resources. Conflict in Darfur escalated in 2003 in parallel with negotiations “ending” the south Sudan war.

The U.S.-backed insurgency by the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA), the guerilla force that fought the northern Khartoum government for 20 years, shifted to Darfur, even as the G.W. Bush government allied with Khartoum in the U.S. led “War on Terrorism.” The Sudan Liberation Army (SLA)—one of some 27 rebel factions mushrooming in Darfur—is allied with the SPLA and supported from Uganda.

Andrew Natsios, former USAID chief and now US envoy to Sudan, said on October 6, 2007 that the atmosphere between the governments of north and south Sudan “had become poisonous.” This is no surprise given the magnitude of the resource war in Sudan and the involvement of international interests, but the investigation should center on the involvement and activities of Andrew Natsios and Roger Winter.

Roger Winter, USAID chief in Khartoum today, is directly linked to the Rwandan Patriotic Front/Army and U.S. military campaign that destabilized Rwanda and decapitated the leadership of Rwanda and Burundi. USAID’s affiliations with the Department of Defense are now openly advertised with the propaganda peddling AFRICOM—the Pentagon’s new Africa Command. AFRICOM combines U.S. CENTCOM, PACIFICOM and EUCOM operations in Africa; it is nothing new, merely the consolidation and expansion of widespread and ongoing involvement.

Darfur is reported to have the fourth largest copper and third largest uranium deposits in the world. Darfur produces two-thirds of the world’s best quality gum Arabic—a major ingredient in Coke and Pepsi. Contiguous petroleum reserves are driving warfare from the Red Sea, through Darfur, to the Great Lakes of Central Africa. Private military companies operate alongside petroleum contractors and “humanitarian” agencies. Sudan is China’s fourth biggest supplier of imported oil, and U.S. companies controlling the pipelines in Chad and Uganda seek to displace China through the US military alliance with “frontline” states hostile to Sudan: Uganda, Chad and Ethiopia.

Israel reportedly provides military training to Darfur rebels from bases in Eritrea, and has strengthened ties with the regime in Chad, from which more weapons and troops penetrate Darfur. The refugee camps have become increasingly militarized. There are reports that Israeli and U.S. military and intelligence operate from within refugee camps in Darfur. Israel is all over the Sahara, from Burkina Faso to Ethiopia and Uganda. Israel’s clandestine actions are partly funded by Israeli-American diamond magnates involved in Angola, Sierra Leone and Congo, especially Dan Gertler (G.W. Bush’s unofficial Ambassador to the DRC), Beny Steinmetz and Lev Leviev.

African Union (AU) forces in Darfur include Nigerian and Rwandan troops responsible for atrocities in their own countries. Ethiopia has committed 5000 troops for a UN force in Darfur. AU troops receive military-logistic support from NATO, and are widely hated. Early in October 2007, SLA rebels attacked an AU base killing ten troops. In a subsequent editorial sympathetic to rebel factions (“Darfur’s Bitter Ironies,” Guardian Online, 10/4/07)

Smith College English professor Eric Reeves espoused the tired rhetoric of “Khartoum’s genocidal counter-insurgency war in Darfur,” a position counterproductive to any peaceful settlement. To minimize the damage this rebel attack has done to their credibility Reeves and other “Save Darfur” advocates cast doubt about the rebels’ identities and mischaracterized the SLA attackers as “rogue commanders.” However, there is near unanimous agreement, internationally, that rebels are “out of control,” committing widespread rape and plundering with impunity, just as the SPLA did in South Sudan for over a decade.

Debunking the claims of a “genocide against blacks” or an “Islamic holy-war” against Christians, Darfur’s Arab and black African tribes have intermarried for centuries, and nearly everyone is Muslim. The “Save Darfur” campaign is deeply aligned with Jewish and Christian faith-based organizations in the United States, Canada, Europe and Israel. These groups have relentlessly campaigned for Western military action, demonizing both Sudan and China, but they have never addressed Western military involvement—backing factions on all sides.

Christian and Jewish involvement in the “Save Darfur” campaign centers on a long-running but deeply manipulative narrative about slavery and genocide in South Sudan. The Holocaust Memorial Museum furthered the establishment narrative about Darfur in keeping with the genocide theme; no one ever examines the interests behind the Holocaust Memorial Museum, it is merely some apolitical institution with the championing of supposed “universal” human rights of all people everywhere as its raison d’etre.

Christian organizations involved in Sudan for years include Servant’s Heart and Christian Solidarity International. On Servant’s Heart’s “Board of Reference” is British Baroness Caroline Cox, who is also closely affiliated with Christian Solidarity International (CSI)—one of the main Christian allies of the SPLM/A war in southern Sudan.

The propaganda system advocates in favor of the “rebels” in Darfur using a handful of techniques developed in their propaganda campaign behind the “rebels” in South Sudan. Rebels are supported partly by never mentioning them, partly by decrying abuses against them, partly by providing sympathetic one-sided accounts of Khartoum government attacks, and partly by defending their excesses if and when—infrequently—the rebel abuses come to light.

Who are the rebels in Darfur? Where do they get new uniforms and modern weapons? It was the same with the establishment propaganda on Rwanda and the invading Rwanda Patriotic Front/Army from 1990-1994: abuses were covered up, the government of Juvenal Habyarimana was blamed for everything, and the “rebels”—backed by Washington, partnered with the Pentagon—were never exposed for their .. outrageous abuses.

There is growing dissent within the “Save Darfur” movement as more supporters question its motivations and the Jewish/Israeli link. “Save Darfur” leaders have been replaced after complaints surfaced about expenditures of funds. Many rebel leaders reportedly receive tens of thousands of dollars monthly, and rebels emboldened by the “Save Darfur” movement commit crimes with impunity.

There is a growing demand to probe the accounts of “Save Darfur” to find out how the tens of millions collected are being spent due to allegations of arms-deals and bribery—rebel leaders provided with five-star hotel accommodations, prostitutes and sex parties.

“Save Darfur” is today the rallying cry for a broad coalition of special interests. Advocacy groups—from the local Massachusetts Congregation B’Nai Israel chapter to the International Crises Group and USAID—have fueled the conflict through a relentless, but selective, public relations campaign that disingenuously serves a narrow policy agenda. These interests offer no opportunity for corrective analyses, but stubbornly press their agenda, and they are widely criticized for inflaming tensions in Darfur. This is what we might call Darfurism.

The latest Lockheed Martin contract with the United Nations illustrates the final stage in the transformation of international conflict whereby military-industrial giants are openly engaged, rather than clandestinely, as has been previously the case. This development parallels the rise of Darfurism— a mass movement in the West designed to channel popular sympathy and agitate people to act on a cause they know nothing about, but think they do.

Darfurism is a pathological mix of fear, patriotism, social immaturity, opportunism and unconsciousness akin to fascism. Under the current climate of apathy, fear and public opinion, anything goes, and warfare involves humanitarian agencies as active players in the mix. Like the Holocaust Memorial Museum they are seen as neutral, described as apolitical, but nothing could be further from the truth.

The United Nations and African Union serve as pseudo-privatized military forces backing a hegemonic, corporate, political and economic agenda. The future has arrived, and it uses human rights institutions, the label of genocide and accusations of atrocities, and the ever-expanding international AID and charity industry—operating out of pure profit motives—as pivotal elements in the Western portfolio of soft and hard weapons used to further the prerogatives of Empire and clear the land for absolute corporate exploitation.

http://www.envirosagainstwar.org/know/read.php?itemid=6125

[ian neal]

[blackbear]

Ten Reasons to Suspect "Save Darfur" is a PR Scam

By Bruce Dixon, Black Agenda Report
http://www.alternet.org/story/69170/

[karlos]

[blackbear]

More about "Save Darfur":

Here's a significant new development on the pro-war rally today. The Council on American-Islamic Relations belatedly realizes that it's been had:

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today questioned why no representatives of major American Muslim groups are listed as speakers at the Save Darfur Coalition "Rally to Stop Genocide" this afternoon in Washington, D.C.

To view the list of speakers, go to:

http://www.savedarfur.org/rally/speakers

CAIR and other American Muslim groups, including the Islamic Society of North America, the Islamic Circle of North America, the Muslim Public Affairs Council, and the Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation, are members of the coalition. But no representative from these, or any Muslim coalition member, is listed on the latest rally program. (Several Muslims will speak, but they do not represent Islamic groups that are coalition members.)

The Washington Post reported that rally organizers "rushed this week to invite two Darfurians to address the rally after Sudanese immigrants objected that the original list of speakers included eight Western Christians, seven Jews, four politicians and assorted celebrities -- but no Muslims and no one from Darfur."

Earlier this month, after noticing the lack of Muslim speakers on the program, CAIR wrote to rally organizers asking to have a representative speak at the rally. The Save Darfur Coalition never replied to CAIR's letter, despite the fact that the Washington-based Islamic civil liberties group is an original signatory of the coalition's founding "Unity Statement."

"It is unfortunate that the Save Darfur Coalition chose not to list any mainstream American Muslim groups in the rally program," said CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad. "This disturbing omission calls into question the coalition's true agenda at the rally." Awad said rally participants would have benefited from hearing American Muslim leaders offer support for those suffering in Darfur and in neighboring areas.

(Council on American-Islamic Relations, "CAIR Asks Why No Muslim Groups to Speak at Darfur Rally: Lack of Muslim Speakers Calls Into Question Rally's 'True Agenda'," Press Release, 30 April 2006)

http://montages.blogspot.com/2006/04/cair-asks-why-no-muslim-groups-to .html

[ian neal]

[karlos]

Whose reports?
I know people from Darfur actual asylum gainers, and they are just as Black and just as Muslim as the people who are the Sudanese government.
I have been told quite catergorically that yes there are armed bandits who come into villages and demand ransoms and burns houses and kill people. But they are simply old fashioned criminals like Robin Hood or the Cowboys and Indians of yesteryear. They are not government troops nor is there any independance campaigns nor is there any ethnic cleansing.

Every Sudanese from Darfur says that this PR offensive is 100% to do with Sudan selling it's oil, which happens to be located in Darfur, to China and India.
I agree that the PR campaign is part of a long term aim for the US to invade and occupy Darfur.

Previously i wrote quite a long piece on why Iran should not be attacked. Included in that was a response to your allegations regarding Khurzistan.
Rather than challenge what i had written or even acknowledge it the thread disappeared.
Just as there is no Ahwazi independance movement which you know was described by Webster Tarpley during his recent lecture as a "phantom" created by the west who wants to grab the Iranian oilfields. So there is alot of lies being told about Sudan and Darfur simply as a ruse to invade and cancel their deals with China and India.
dont forget Britain used to own Sudan and Bill Clinton used to bomb it.

Dont you see a pattern?
They want to invade Iran to liberate the people living above the oilfields. They want to invade Sudan to liberate the people living above the oilfields.

Ask yourselves - why arent they attacking Burma/Myanmar?
Why arent they liberating Tibet? or Pakistan?

[ian neal]

Don't get me wrong the CIA, French and other similar agencies are no doubt up to their eyes in this and busy creating a 'phantom' that they can fight and are no doubt fuelling the strategy of tension between the different tribes, militias and faiths.by arming both sides, spreading disinfo and confusion, etc. We know their game.

However I would be very surprised if the reports of Sudanese government colluding with the janjaweed were baseless. Specifically the reports of Sudan government air support for the janjaweed. Cowboys (or their modern day equivalents) ride on camels not in helicopters. What I know for sure is the government has no genuine interest in ending the humanitarian nightmare that plagues their country.

The pattern I see is that the west creates these 'monsters', these bogey men, these Saddams, Hitlers and Pol Pots, precisely so they can fight them, fuel further wars, act like the 'good guy' and further their NWO agenda. In their eyes their is no such thing as a bad war, all war is good for business and good for the ultimate game plan. that doesn't mean their opponents are saints. They very rarely are. They are usually put in power precisely to serve the purpose the west wants them to serve. that's pattern I see.

[conspiracy analyst]

Paul Stott-I didn't write the first piece or write the title I just uploaded it.


http://www.countercurrents.org/snow231107.htm

The US’s War In Darfur

By Keith Harmon Snow


November 23rd, 2007
Black Agenda Report

The Darfur region of Sudan possesses the third largest copper and the fourth largest uranium deposits on the planet, in addition to strategic location and significant oil resources of its own. Is the US-based “Save Darfur” movement snowing the US public on the fundamental nature of the conflict in Sudan? Are “Save Darfur” and the prevention of genocide the covers of convenience for the next round of US oil and resource wars on the African continent?

The Darfur region of western Sudan has been a hotbed of clandestine activities, gunrunning and indiscriminate violence for decades.

“The humanitarian tragedy in Darfur revolves around natural resources… Given current realities, no intervention in Darfur will proceed, and if it did it would fail.”

So opined the authors of the September 2006 OPED “Keeping Peacekeepers out of Darfur” [GN1](DHG, 9/15/06). Now, over a year later, the situation in Sudan is grimmer than ever, the Darfur conflict remains widely mischaracterized, and many of the predictions of that OPED have come true. Meanwhile, the “Save Darfur” advocates pressing military intervention in Darfur as a “humanitarian” gesture have escalated pressure in the face of mounting failures, including allegations that millions of “Save Darfur” dollars fundraised on a sympathy for victims platform have been misappropriated.

The Darfur region of western Sudan has been a hotbed of clandestine activities, gunrunning and indiscriminate violence for decades. The Cold War era saw countless insurgencies launched from the remote deserts of Darfur. Throughout the 1990s, factions allied with or against Chad, Uganda, Ethiopia, Congo, Libya, Eritrea and the Central African Republic operated from bases in Darfur, and it was a regular landing strip for foreign military transport planes of mysterious origin. In 1990, Chad’s Idriss Deby launched a military blitzkrieg from Darfur and overthrew President Hissan Habre; Deby then allied with his own ethnic group against the Sudan government. Sudanese rebels today have bases in Chad, and Chadian rebels have bases in Darfur, with Khartoum’s backing.[GN2] When the regime of Ange-Félix Patassé collapsed in the Central African Republic in March 2003, soldiers fled to Darfur with their military equipment. Khartoum supported the West Nile Bank Front, a rebel army operating against Uganda from Eastern Congo, commanded by Taban Amin, the son of the infamous Ugandan dictator, Idi Amin, who heads Uganda’s dreaded Internal Security Organization. Darfur is the epicenter of a modern-day international geopolitical scramble for Africa’s resources.

Conflict in Darfur escalated in 2003 after in parallel with negotiations “ending” the south Sudan war. The U.S.-backed insurgency by the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA), the guerrilla force that fought the northern Khartoum government for 20 years, shifted to Darfur, even as the G.W. Bush government allied with Khartoum in the U.S. led “war on terror.” The Sudan Liberation Army (SLA)—one of some 27 rebel factions mushrooming in Darfur—is allied with the SPLA and supported from Uganda. Andrew Natsios, former USAID chief and now US envoy to Sudan, said on October 6, 2007 that the atmosphere between the governments of north and south Sudan “had become poisonous.” This is no surprise given the magnitude of the resource war in Sudan and the involvement of international interests.

Darfur is reported to have the fourth largest copper and third largest uranium deposits in the world. Darfur produces two-thirds of the world’s best quality gum Arabic—a major ingredient in Coke and Pepsi. Contiguous petroleum reserves are driving warfare from the Red Sea, through Darfur, to the Great Lakes of Central Africa. Private military companies operate alongside petroleum contractors and “humanitarian” agencies. Sudan is China’s fourth biggest supplier of imported oil, and U.S. companies controlling the pipelines in Chad and Uganda seek to displace China through the US military alliance with “frontline” states hostile to Sudan: Uganda, Chad and Ethiopia.

Israel reportedly provides military training to Darfur rebels from bases in Eritrea, and has strengthened ties with the regime in Chad, from which more weapons and troops penetrate Darfur. The refugee camps have become increasingly militarized. There are reports that Israeli military intelligence operates from within the camps, as does U.S intelligence. Eritrea is about to explode into yet another war with Ethiopia.

African Union (AU) forces in Darfur include Nigerian and Rwandan troops responsible for atrocities in their own countries. While committing 5000 troops for a UN force in Darfur, Ethiopia is perpetrating genocidal atrocities in Somalia, and against Ethiopians in the Ogaden, Oromo and Anuak regions. Uganda has 2000 U.S.-trained troops in Somalia, also committing massive atrocities, and the genocide against the Acholi people in northern Uganda proceeds out of sight. Ethiopia is the largest recipient of U.S. “Aid” in Africa, with Rwanda and Uganda close on its heals. France is deeply committed to the Anglo-American strategy, which will benefit Total Oil Corp.

AU troops receive military-logistic support from NATO, and are widely hated. Early in October 2007, SLA rebels attacked an AU base killing ten troops. In a subsequent editorial sympathetic to rebel factions (“Darfur’s Bitter Ironies,” Guardian Online, 10/4/07), Smith College English professor Eric Reeves espoused the tired rhetoric of “Khartoum’s genocidal counter-insurgency war in Darfur,” a position counterproductive to any peaceful settlement. To minimize the damage this rebel attack has done to their credibility, Reeves and other “Save Darfur” advocates cast doubt about the rebels’ identities and mischaracterized the SLA attackers as “rogue commanders.” However, there is near unanimous agreement, internationally, that rebels are “out of control,” committing widespread rape and plundering with impunity, just as the SPLA did in South Sudan for over a decade.

Debunking the claims of a “genocide against blacks” or an “Islamic holy-war” against Christians, Darfur’s Arab and black African ethnic groups have intermarried for centuries, and nearly everyone is Muslim. The “Save Darfur” campaign is deeply aligned with Jewish and Christian faith-based organizations in the United States, Canada, Europe and Israel. These groups have relentlessly campaigned for Western military action, demonizing both Sudan and China, but they have never addressed Western military involvement—backing factions on all sides. By mobilizing constituencies sympathetic to the “genocide” label and the cries of “never again” they do a grave disservice to the cause of human rights.

There is growing dissent within the “Save Darfur” movement as more supporters question its motivations and the Jewish-Israeli link. “Save Darfur” leaders have been replaced after complaints surfaced about expenditures of funds. Many rebel leaders reportedly receive tens of thousands of dollars monthly, and rebels emboldened by the “Save Darfur” movement commit crimes with impunity. There is a growing demand to probe the accounts of “Save Darfur” to find out how the tens of millions collected are being spent due to allegations of arms-deals and bribery—rebel leaders provided with five-star hotel accommodations, prostitutes and sex parties.

“Save Darfur” is today the rallying cry for a broad coalition of special interests. Advocacy groups—from the local Massachusetts Congregation B’Nai Israel chapter to the International Crises Group and USAID—have fueled the conflict through a relentless, but selective, public relations campaign that disingenuously serves a narrow policy agenda. These interests offer no opportunity for corrective analyses, but stubbornly press their agenda, and they are widely criticized for inflaming tensions in Darfur. Rhetoric, aggression and propaganda do not make a strong foreign policy, and the African people suffering from this brutal international conflict involving China, Saudi Arabia, France, Britain, Canada, the United States and Israel cannot eat good intentions foolishly delivered under the banners of “humanitarian aid” and a poorly cloaked militarism.

The West is desperate to deploy a “robust peacekeeping” mission in Darfur, to press the Western agenda, but United Nations forces will only deepen the chaos. The UN forces will cost billions of dollars and will achieve nothing positive. Indeed, the results will be disastrous, creating another Iraq and Afghanistan—only increasing the chaos and devastation already apparent. The United States is hated for this kind of aggression and posturing, and the U.S. economy will continue to suffer.

Keith Harmon Snow is an independent human rights investigator and war correspondent who worked with Survivors Rights International (2005-2006), Genocide Watch (2005-2006) and the United Nations (2006) to document and expose genocide and crimes against humanity in Sudan and Ethiopia. He has worked in 17 countries in Africa, and he recently worked in Afghanistan

[karlos]

Very informative.
I did not realise Darfur was so well endowed with natural resources other than oil.
I can certainly see why the US wants to create an excuse to invade.
Oil, Copper, Uranium, etc
What is surprising is why does the public keep falling for these obvious spin stories they put out and especially we truthers should be more sceptical when we hear the obvious propaganda.
Minerals and natural resources is what every proposed war is about.
Especially Sudan and Iran.