"They speak about a conspiracy against the Arab and Islamic world." Unfortunately, they do not speak of genocide, or the need to prevent it. "Envoy to Sudan Reports Threats: U.N.'s Jan Pronk says Al Qaeda has warned him and non-African troops who might go to Darfur," from the Los Angeles Times, with thanks to DFS:
UNITED NATIONS — The world body's top envoy to Sudan said Tuesday that Al Qaeda has threatened him and any peacekeeping troops deployed there from outside Africa, following the Sudanese government's rejection of a proposed U.N. force meant to protect civilians in the nation's Darfur region.U.N. special envoy Jan Pronk said the government in Khartoum deeply distrusts foreign intervention in its nation and fears that the presence of a United Nations or NATO force would be the beginning of a foreign occupation such as those that took place in Afghanistan and Iraq....
Pronk returned to the U.N. on Tuesday and told reporters that there is an "atmosphere of fear and conspiracy" in Khartoum. "They speak about re-colonization, invasion and they speak about Iraq and Afghanistan … and they speak about a conspiracy against the Arab and Islamic world," he said.
The heated political climate in Khartoum has made negotiations over the next step difficult, Pronk said, describing intelligence that suggested that Al Qaeda terrorists were present in the Sudanese capital and had made death threats against him and any U.N. troops that might be deployed to the country.
Sudan's deputy ambassador to the United Nations, Omar Manis, reiterated his government's objections to the mission but questioned Pronk's reports of Al Qaeda threats.
"I don't know from where Mr. Pronk got this idea. Sudan is not Al Qaeda. We don't speak for Al Qaeda," he said.
Manis added that Khartoum prefers African troops to international soldiers, even if the existing force is absorbed by a U.N. mission.
Egypt (see "Mr. Mubarak, We Want Our Money Back"), not content with having been secretly involved in arms projects with Saddam Hussein, and with some of its highest officials on the take from the same regime (this was not the least of the discoveries made by the Americans in Iraq), not content with having ignored every single of the solemn commitments it made to Israel under the Camp David Accords (while Israel scrupulously fulfilled all of its obligations to Egypt), not content with repeatedly blocking American efforts to force something akin to "democracy" and resisting at every step, not content with permitting attacks on the Copts by Egypt's Muslims and then denying all of it, not content with having created an atmosphere in which Muslim fanaticism may flourish among Egypt's better-off (Al-Zawahiri, Mohammad Atta, thousands of others) who join Al-Qaeda and similar groups, or go off to Iraq, and among Eypgt's poor (who vote for Akef and the Muslim Brotherhood), not content with bullying Ethiopia to prevent its rightful diversion of some of the headwaters of the Nile for irrigation purposes (the Egyptian Arabs apparently believe that they, and they alone, own the Nile and black Africans have no right -- in this, they will be proven quite mistaken), not content with all this, Egypt now has organized opposition to U.N. (i.e. Western, effective) troops going to Darfur.
Why? Because the Egyptians know that if the black Africans in Darfur received real, as opposed to hollow protection, that might lead to their expression of dismay in being forced to live under the rule of Muslim Arabs. And those same U.N. troops, which would not be limited or lead by Muslims (as the African troops are led by Muslim officers in the Nigerian army contingent), would draw further attention to the behavior of the Arab Muslism toward non-Arab Muslims, and would necessarily as well have contact with the southerners now being temporarioly bought off with a pretend "peace treaty" with the north (useful while Darfur is being ravaged and emptied of its population by the Sudanese government).
Of course Egypt (our "staunch ally"), and Libya (our "new ally" after Qaddafy's "change of course"), and Qatar (our "ally" because, while it supports Al-Jazeera, the propaganda station responsible for the deaths of Americans in Iraq, and provides a base for Al-Qaradawi the Sunni cleric with such a large and fanatical following, it also allows American military to be there -- purely out of self-interest, just as Kuwait does, in order for the Americans to protect the locals from the Big Neighborhood Bullies -- Iran, Saudi Arabia, and now, less likely, Iraq) will do everything they can to prevent the deployment of U.N. troops. All the more reason, by the way, to deprive Egypt of its Jizyah-aid, to stop treating Qaddafy with kid-gloves (he gave up the information about his weapons plans because he was getting nowhere with them; his outrageous behavior continues -- Qaddafy now demands that Italy build, at Italy's expense, a coastal highway along the entire coast of Libya, from east to west, and has even made noises about requiring it to extend the full length of the North African littoral, at a cost of at least 5 billion euros, in order to "make up" for Italian colonizing -- that is, bringing civilization to -- troglodytic Tripolitania), and to see Qatar for the enemy, capable of smiles and wiles as long as the Americans protect it, it really is, when it comes to protecting the fruits of Arab and Muslim aggression against non-Muslims (as in southern Sudan) or non-Arab Muslims (as in Darfur, or the Kabyle, or Kurdistan).
Egypt is the key here. But the entire Arab League will move heaven and earth to keep any effective force, including Western troops, out of Darfur. To Egypt, the Muslim Arabs have a divine right to harry and kill the black Africans, whether Christians and animists in the south, or lesser, because merely black and not Arab, Muslims in Darfur. Just as Egypt has a divine right to the waters of the Nile. Or a divine right to the Jizya of foreign aid that successive American governments have been fearful of cutting, less their "ally" Egypt suddenly do even more damage to American policy, become even more anti-American in thought, word, and deed, than it already is. How it could possibly do so, without Mubarak having to trade in his Family-and-Friends Plan for something offered by the Muslim Brotherhood, seems to have escaped our strategists.
The Sudan has been independent since January 1, 1956. Mass murder has been going on in the Sudan for about that same length of time. It is unlikely that the UN will ever deal honestly with genocide in the Sudan. But what keeps Bush and Condi and the NYT and the Washpost from honestly reporting and denouncing the crimes in the Sudan?
The West really should stop all the aid to these countries.
I feel sorry for the innocents but basically the money is spent more on arms than for helpin the populace.
Let them eat their tanks and missiles before coming to the West for any more.
Perhaps the Arabs will supply food instead of the qur'an and violence................................but I won't hold my breath.