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2006-05-09 Africa Horn

Darfur refugees hack up AU translator, force UN aid chief to flee

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Posted by Dan Darling 2006-05-09 03:58|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Residents of a Darfur refugee camp hacked an African Union translator to death Monday shortly after the U.N. humanitarian chief rushed out of the same camp when demonstrators attacked another translator who was part of his entourage, U.N. spokesmen said.

Nice people.

Posted by gromgoru 2006-05-09 05:25|| 2006-05-09 05:25|| Front Page Top

#2 The PC CNN TV news report made no mention of anyone hacked to death - only showed Egeland strutting about.

Posted by Duh! 2006-05-09 07:54|| 2006-05-09 07:54|| Front Page Top

#3 People who attack UN personnel cannot be completely bad.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2006-05-09 08:58|| 2006-05-09 08:58|| Front Page Top

#4 "a huge crowd chanting pro-U.N., pro-U.S. and anti-government slogans."

Boy, you don't see those words together very often.

Posted by Clavish Ulack8745 2006-05-09 09:07|| 2006-05-09 09:07|| Front Page Top

#5 Indeed, CU8745... I had to read that 3 times before it even began to register. And I don't believe it. I'm going back to bed.

Posted by Sneremble Elmitch8614 2006-05-09 09:10|| 2006-05-09 09:10|| Front Page Top

#6 Wow, you're right! Pro UN (well not so sure about that one), Pro US and anti-government crowds??? There's hope for Darfur yet.

Posted by mcsegeek1 2006-05-09 09:14|| 2006-05-09 09:14|| Front Page Top

#7 it makes perfect sense.

These people are being victimized by the janjaweed, and the AU troops are not effective at protecting them. What they want is a large blue helmeted UN force on the ground, so they arent killed, and can gather firewood without being raped. They know the people who are pushing hardest for that UN force are AMERICANS (Bush called for that just yesterday, and Rice will be going to NY to ride herd on the UNSC to deliver it)

And yes, this group behaved badly. But theyre kinda at the ends of their ropes. Living far worse than the usual MSM poster children, like the Palestinians, for ex.

Posted by Liberalhawk 2006-05-09 09:15|| 2006-05-09 09:15|| Front Page Top

#8 I've been looking for pix of Egeland being chased out of the camp. No luck so far. I s'pose he didn't bring any photographers 'cos he wanted to keep a low profile and just jump in and help.

/yeah right

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2006-05-09 09:48|| 2006-05-09 09:48|| Front Page Top

#9 What they want is a large blue helmeted UN force on the ground, so they arent killed, and can gather firewood without being raped.

Yeah, also because, with the UN's Itty Bitty Titty for Food Program, their kids can get fed.

Posted by badanov 2006-05-09 14:28|| http://www.freefirezone.org]">[http://www.freefirezone.org] 2006-05-09 14:28|| Front Page Top

#10 So UN troops are buy sex in Liberia. In Darfur women are raped when they go out for firewood.

Are you suggesting a US force, instead of a UN force? I dont think thats in the cards.

Posted by Liberalhawk 2006-05-09 16:42|| 2006-05-09 16:42|| Front Page Top

#11 Everybody knows a U.S. force would be immeasurably more aeffective than a U.N. force. But you're right LH, ther is zero chance of that happening. They're Muslim, so we don't care.

Posted by Mike N. 2006-05-09 17:21|| 2006-05-09 17:21|| Front Page Top

#12 They're Muslim, so we don't care.

That statement is bloody nonsense, Mike N. A truer statement is, "We're awfully busy in other parts of the world right now, but at least we've been trying to get the world to acknowledge the attempted genocide that nobody else cares about." We know there are Marines in Chad, and other Special Forces units doing things to strengthen anti-terror efforts throughout North Africa -- most of whose citizens follow Mohammed rather than Jesus Christ or the local pantheon.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-05-09 18:32|| 2006-05-09 18:32|| Front Page Top

#13 Or, "We care, but not enough to send the very best."

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-05-09 18:44|| 2006-05-09 18:44|| Front Page Top

#14 They're Muslim, so we don't care.

Victor Davis Hanson summmed it up best:

"...I think the United States is saying look, we're willing to step forward, but we're not going to do this anymore where we get hung out to dry [as] in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the Balkans, and Panama.

"Every time we try to do something to stop a dictator or a thug, we have these triangulators who want it to be done, but not us to do it.

"So I think we're sort of seeing an American zen now, where the United States is trying to say you wanted this type of world, you have it. And then yet not being completely nihilistic, in the sense that we will act, finally, if no one else will, but we want this other dialogue to play out."

What I find so absolutely ironic is the cacophony from 'Those That Care' that the "U.S. should do something". What, unilateralism is now suddenly popular and correct?

Posted by Pappy 2006-05-09 18:55|| 2006-05-09 18:55|| Front Page Top

#15 Sudan dose not appear on the list of Axis of Evil states, so there is no way America will be drawn into the true quagmire called Darfur. Lots of lefty and transnational types would love to see America intervene, but understandably Bush is keeping his eye on the vital strategic concerns created by Iran and North Korea. The Administration can also use UN inaction in Sudan as a wedge against Kofi and Company: "You got your peace accord, so you go manage it."

Posted by john">john 2006-05-09 21:21|| 2006-05-09 21:21|| Front Page Top

#16 The Sudan has been a sh*thole for a century, plus a whole lot of change. If we go in there, we will have to kill all of the bad guyz, then we will have to rewire all the screwed up citizens, which will make everyone go apesh*t, because it's a cultural thang. I feel for these people, but we are talking about a major committment for a decade at least, and there will have to be a consensus of how this will be done. Sudan is a true Quagmire. Sorry to say, but that's the way I see it.

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2006-05-09 21:50|| 2006-05-09 21:50|| Front Page Top

#17 No way, no how, not us.

How about Amnesty International, Oxfam et al send their army since anyone that goes their willbe under their unwritten ROE.

Sorry we are all out of men and women to commit to this kind of charity work.Chain is pretty flush right now ask them.

Sending US personel beyond the present level or more money doesn't have my moral or political support.

Posted by SPoD 2006-05-09 22:06|| http://sockpuppetofdoom.blogspot.com/]">[http://sockpuppetofdoom.blogspot.com/] 2006-05-09 22:06|| Front Page Top

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