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Africa: Horn
Sudan issues threat over intervention
2004-07-29
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.
"Think again, Bub!"
"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 -
... but not by Kofi...
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

#16  The Arab League gonna meet on this? That should be good for a few laughs.
Trim those mustaches, boys.
Posted by: tu3031   2004-07-29 9:27:41 PM  

#15  For the delusion we are rebuilding alliances, we are down on our knees, begging to be agreed with, so that the UN can remove the words "sanction" and "genocide" from resolutions and allow the slaughter to continue? It is sickening that we posture ourselves now as if we are the shamed. This UN is a lemon, yet we keep trying to drive it.
Posted by: jules 2   2004-07-29 9:23:44 PM  

#14  Desire to stop the bloodshed must come from within the African community of nations. Ain't gonna happpen. Slavery issue redux when African chiefs sold fellow Africans to Arab slavers - now we have African chiefs tied to Arab oil/money tit who are selling out their brothers...
Posted by: borgboy   2004-07-29 9:12:42 PM  

#13  Can't argue with that one Mr. Davis.
Posted by: Shipman   2004-07-29 11:48:10 AM  

#12  I look forward to some enterprizing reporter in Georgia asking Cynthia McKinney a series of well informed questions about the Arab genocide of blacks in Darfar and Arab oppression of Berbers, Saudi enslavement of black Sudanese, etc.

The Atlanta Journal Constitution has some decent reporters (although most of its editors are leftists), there is hope this might happen.
Posted by: mhw   2004-07-29 10:59:47 AM  

#11  Agreed, but why should I pay to tempt fate?
Posted by: Mr. Davis   2004-07-29 10:49:14 AM  

#10  Still no contest, I believe the M1s were uh assembled in Egypt by Egyptians. As far as the F-16s are concerned they are flown by uh.. Egyptian pilots. Now if the Egyptians can recreate a SAM belt ala 1973 then there's a problem... but do we or the Russ sell them the good SAMs?

Posted by: Shipman   2004-07-29 10:33:24 AM  

#9  I'd rather we drew our last check in favor of Egypt. Why these clowns have M1-A2s and F-16s is beyond me. Do we want to make it a contest the next time they attack Israel?
Posted by: Mr. Davis   2004-07-29 8:00:11 AM  

#8  Muslim dominated countries = hopeless, hapless,and helpless

Posted by: rex   2004-07-29 4:03:21 AM  

#7  What line in the sand?
Posted by: Edward Yee   2004-07-29 3:28:40 AM  

#6  Looks like they have drawn a line in the sand.
Posted by: Super Hose   2004-07-29 3:14:24 AM  

#5  Egypt? The armpit of Africa. Those assholes do squat. Why woould Powell even think about them. Oh yeah, I remember, Arab/islamic something.
Posted by: Lucky   2004-07-29 1:58:51 AM  

#4  If I recall, "mullahgarchy" is the British/Commonwealth spelling. American English has elided the name to "malarky," though the original meaning remains.
Posted by: Another Dan   2004-07-29 1:12:05 AM  

#3  How much would you like to bet that if we were to destroy the mullahgarchy™ in Iran, this shit would stop?
Posted by: Victory Now Please   2004-07-29 1:01:20 AM  

#2  Me and my brother against my neighbor. Me and my tribe against the next tribe. Me and my Arab brother against the blacks. ...
Posted by: ed   2004-07-29 12:22:14 AM  

#1  we are not going to sit silent, we will retaliate

*yaaaaaaawn*
Posted by: Rafael   2004-07-29 12:12:38 AM  

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