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Old 05-27-2008, 07:21 PM   #1167
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I'd suggest you read up on the Sudanese government, Scaeagles. Precious little separates it from any of the others, aside from it's willingness to play reindeer games with us. Any assertions of noble intent on either our side or theirs is BS- we talk about wanting to help stop their civil war and prevent another Rwanda, but really we don't care. We are more concerned about our own interests in the area, not the ruling (Islamic) party. The Sudanese government is a well-known supporter of the Islamic jihad, btw. Here's an excerpt from the Council on Foreign Relations:

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Does Sudan sponsor terrorism?

Despite increasing cooperation by Sudan, the U.S. State Department continues to formally designate it as a “state sponsor of terrorism.” The State Department first labeled Sudan a sponsor of terrorism on August 12, 1993. Since then, the United States has accused Sudan of harboring members of al-Qaeda, Hezbollah, Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the Abu Nidal Organization, Jamaat al-Islamiyya, and Egyptian Islamic Jihad, each classified as a terrorist organization. In 1996, the UN Security Council placed sanctions (PDF) on Sudan for harboring suspects wanted for the attempted assassination of President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt. The same year, U.S. investigators linked two Sudanese diplomats to a terrorist cell planning to bomb the UN building in New York. In 1998, al-Qaeda operatives based in Sudan were allegedly involved in the bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. Throughout the 1990s, Sudan was also accused of supporting local insurgencies in Uganda, Tunisia, Kenya, Ethiopia, and Eritrea."



Yeah, they sound really nice.
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