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| 2004-02-03 | |
| DEBKA exposes Karl Roveâs plan. EFL: As North African temperatures cool toward the end of summer or early fall â and perhaps even earlier - Now reported as June George W. Bush will set off on an official visit to Libya and Sudan. The president is programming his trips as dramatic high points of the seismic military and political changes his administration has set in motion in the Middle East and key regions of northern and eastern Africa. If elected for a second term, Bush will continue to drive forward along these tracks which essentially radiate from Washingtonâs Middle Eastern foreign and security policy hub and cockpit of its global war on terror. Muammar Qaddafi, determined to prove he is Americaâs best friend in the Middle East, is holding back nothing on his unconventional weapons programs, equipment, stocks and documentation on sources of supply, offering Washington a veritable treasure trove of intelligence. Materials laid bare in Libya forced Pervez Musharraf to carry out a painful probe into charges of illicit trafficking in nuclear technology with Libya and Iran by his top scientists and officials, including the father of Pakistanâs nuclear bomb, Abdul Qadeer Khan. A thriving black market in WMD has beginning taking shape from long-hidden documents, the most intriguing section of which should uncover Libyaâs nuclear exchanges with Iraq and North Korea. As DEBKA-Net-Weekly revealed in the past, a large team of Iraqi nuclear scientists was employed at the clandestine al Kufra oasis nuclear complex in southern Libya. Their present whereabouts are known only to Qaddafi. You donât suppose Qaddafi has them under house arrest? Now that would be a lovely welcome gift for Bush. His Tripoli centerpiece will be followed by a Khartoum spectacular celebrating Americaâs momentous success in bringing one of Africaâs most intractable conflicts, Sudanâs bloody 21-year civil war, to an end, and persuading President Omar Hasan Ahmad al-Bashir to sign peace with the man Washington has slated as vice president, the rebel leader, John Garang. At the head of the Sudan Peopleâs Liberation Army (SPLA) of the south, Garang fought the Muslim-dominated government in the north for autonomy for the mostly Christian or animist south in a conflict that cost some two million lives and displaced some four million people. Credit for this breakthrough belongs to former US senator and Sudan peace broker John Danforth Interesting Sudanâs natural resources were just as much an issue in the civil conflict as ethnic and religious causes and equally promise to be the key to its future prosperity. In January 2003, this Nile stateâs proven oil resources stood at 563 m barrels. Output of 300,000 bpd is expected to rise to an estimated 450,000 in 2005 once the country is pacified and rebel attacks on oil installations a thing of the past. DEBKA-Net-Weekly reports that designating Garang vice president is part of the arrangement governing the disposition of Sudanâs oil. The Abyai district will come under âpresidentialâ control on the basis of half and half shares in national oil resources between Bashir and Garang. Expect cries of "itâs all about the oil" from the usual sources. Unfortunately for them, voters pump gas. In more than one respect, the Sudanese peace and power-sharing pact could be an even more effective campaign booster than Qaddafiâs repentance. The Christians, who make up a quarter of Sudanâs population of 37 million, were long supported by conservative Christian groups in the United States whose votes Bush will be soliciting. Their championship will be vindicated by a settlement that gives the Christian minority of Sudan the victory of a place in the sun. And thereâs the bone for the religious right wing. Even better, according to our sources, the peace accord is revealed by DEBKA-Net-Weeklyâs sources as incorporating a secret rider between the Sudanese and US presidents â known to Garang â which undertakes to remove the Shariya, or Islamic law, from the constitutional basis of government. Thatâll spin the turbans up. For the first time ever, American diplomacy will have succeeded in converting a country dominated by radical Muslims â in Sudanâs case since the 17th century - into a secular democracy â in a period, moreover, when fundamentalist Islam is at its most militant and only a few years after Khartoum played host to Osama bin Ladenâs headquarters. If it works, itâll be a real coup.
Gee, what else is going on then? National security adviser Condoleezza Rice has set up a committee with heads of the African American community. Working out of an undisclosed location in Los Angeles, they are assessing the next moves on Sudan and their impact on voting patterns in November. Condi has a secret bunker in LA? As Danforthâs mission draws to a successful conclusion, the presidentâs senior political adviser Karl Rove is taking charge of strategy on Sudan and its exploitation as campaign fodder. Bwahahaha!! | |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #6 this story's from debka--enuf said--no way bush goes to libya before the election--the families will scream bloody murder--or sudan--friends with child slavers?--he's not that dumb |
| Posted by: SON OF TOLUI 2004-2-3 11:24:48 PM |
| #5 I hope Dubya does 2 things: 1) Tells the Muslim Mafia that the gig is up - FOAD to the lot of them. Sudan would make a fine MOAB testing range. 2) Takes his own carnitas con salsa and cook with him. Good pork will be thin on the ground thereabouts. |
| Posted by: .com 2004-2-3 9:30:21 PM |
| #4 Bad faith seems to be endemic on both sides, as we've seen as this drama played out over the past couple years. I imagine Bashir and Garang will spend most of their time trying to have each other assassinated. This is a first step in the right direction, but the destination's about 200 years away. |
| Posted by: Fred 2004-2-3 9:05:08 PM |
| #3 Be careful placing to much faith in this Sudan agreement. It might work out but Garang is the guy who has squirreled away millions in clandestine US aid money for personal wealth, even while his people starved. He is the master mind of faking child slavery and selling the kids to ignorant western aid agencies. Garang's human rights abuses would rival any tyrant around. The master mind of this peace deal is Riek Machar but he has been recently sidelined so Garang can take the glory. Machar is brilliant. Garang is a troglodyte with Comunist leanings. And even Bin Laden said of Bashir and his boys, "This is the Muslim Mafia". Like I said, I hope it works out, but if one considers the character of the key players, one is well advised to be cautiously optimistic at most. |
| Posted by: SudanWatcher 2004-2-3 5:43:33 PM |
| #2 Add on too this Kahns confession about about the Nuclear Black Market and you have a good start ot the year. I do wonder what happened to the IAEA's whining about Libya though? |
| Posted by: Charles 2004-2-3 4:01:02 PM |
| #1 "A nice fruit basket and a bottle of |
| Posted by: seafarious 2004-2-3 12:02:00 PM |