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Sudan issues threat over intervention
Egypt said yesterday it would try to prevent adoption of an American-drafted resolution threatening U.N. sanctions on Sudan, aiming to temper international pressure on its neighbor over bloodshed in its western provinces.
| "Arrrr! There ain't nobody messes with us Arabs and... errr... Muslims!" |
| The Arab equivalent of the Gambino family pulls together. |
With talk of international sanctions and military intervention growing, Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit said Sudan needs more time to fulfill its promises to disarm militias and restore order in the Darfur region.
"How much time?"
"'Bout 40 years should do it..." |
Visiting U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, standing at his side, said there wasn't much time to spare.
"These people are in desperate need," Powell said. "We should give the Sudanese government time to respond, but these people don't have much time."
| It really doesn't take all that long to go from breathing in and out regularly to decomposing... |
Aid groups, U.N. officials and Western governments say ethnic cleansing in Darfur - described by some as genocide -
has killed 30,000 people, most of them black villagers, and threatens 2 million. Some Arabs, however, have rallied behind Sudan's Arab government or, fearful the United States is only trying to remake the region, say the West is mishandling the Darfur issue.
| "Yeah, they should handle it, um, some other way." |
"It's only those black people. They don't feel pain like we do!"
"Kofi, you're black!"
"Yeah, but I got a nice suit!" |
Posted by: Steve White 2004-07-29 |
