Axis of Evil Update: Kim Jong Il throws in his lot with the Somali jihadis, via the Sudanese jihadis. "N.Korean Arms Cache 'Bound for Sudan,'" from the Chosun Ilbo, December 16 (thanks to Maxwell):
A Georgian cargo plane carrying North Korean weapons that was intercepted in Thailand last Saturday was bound for Sudan, reports say. Christian LeMiere, the editor of Jane's Intelligence Weekly, told AP on Tuesday that the aviation path of the plane suggested it was heading to Sudan, where they might have been handed over to armed groups in Somalia through Chad and Eritrea.Siemon Wezeman of the Arms Transfers Project of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, agreed, telling AP that the "types of arms found in the aircraft -- used to add firepower against planes and tanks in the arsenal of government forces -- were typical of those used by insurgent movements, and raised suspicion they could be headed for an African rebel group."...
Here's a story about a Sudanese man in Calgary you might all find interesting:
http://www.calgarysun.com/news/alberta/2009/12/15/12166531.html
A Georgian cargo plane carrying North Korean weapons that was intercepted in Thailand last Saturday was bound for Sudan, reports say. Christian LeMiere, the editor of Jane's Intelligence Weekly, told AP on Tuesday that the aviation path of the plane suggested it was heading to Sudan, where they might have been handed over to armed groups in Somalia through Chad and Eritrea.
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George Bush's "Axis of Evil" speech is lampooned to this day, and yet it is no secret that some of the world's most appalling nations, despite the differing specifics of their tyrannical regimes, continue to deal with each other—North Korea, China, Russia, Venezuela, Cuba, and assorted Islamic hell-holes, including Sudan and Somalia, which must be counted as among the worst.
Some of the worst countries in the world, via some of the rather decent. Did Georgia know what was in that cargo? Likely not.
Kudos to Thailand for uncovering this arms cache, and halting its delivery.
O.K. 'stop-over' in Sudan.
And then what?
Remember the "Invisible Divine Force" that waked off a convoy in Sudan on its way to Gaza?...
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"Axis of Evil Update: Kim Jong Il throws in his lot with the Somali Jihadis"
Gee, what a surprise.
Did it occur to anyone that the weapons might be going to be used in Sudan itself? Could it be that China is growing reluctant to be implicated in Sudanese war crimes by selling Sudan weapons? Just wondering.
Hey Spirit Wolf,
I lived in Calgary for 14 years..Before the Tofino to Nanaimo TC highway was built,ca 1977, whilst en route to Nanaimo on the switchback dirt road,on a mini-bus,with women aboard, an Indian got rambunctious (drunk not sure),but he got kicked off the bus in the middle of nowhere because he swore in the presence of the one woman
that was on the bus. Chivalry or racism or both, not sure,but it was a dangerous peaceful quiet ride after that.
Now if that bus driver was POTUS or PM?
Merry Christmas and have a great New Year (eh).lol
What is to stop the criminal Koreans (not to mention our friend and ally Pakistan) empowered by cowardly and bambozzled western and indian leaders that allowed them to have nukes to begin with, to provide these nukes to muslim countries, to stop them from providing nukes to individual muslims behaving badly, or providing nukes to muslim groups behaving badly. For every rat shipment we find maybe there are three? Our world becomes a more dangerous place every moment. Maybe the ones at war with us already have some of these weapons. Some countries such as iran seem to me to be behaving as if they have some devices we are not supposed to know about. What is emboldening these evil miscreants? Where is Charles the Hammer when we need him to stop the worldwide slither and hiss of islam?
Hi all:
It's too bad that there isn't some tough realpolitik about this captured arms shipment. I'd've sent the small arms arsenal to the Sudanese rebels.
After all, Sudan is an illegitimate regime since its president has been formally indicted for genocide.
Let the regime's soldiers be on the receving end of weapons their government paid for.
xavier