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2004-08-10 Africa: Horn

Sudan launches fresh helicopter attacks in Darfur: UN

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Posted by Fred 2004-08-10 4:05:30 PM|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 What model choppers are the Sudanese military flying? Do we have any we could paint up as Sudanese and sneak into theater to "accidentally" target the Janjaweed? Might slow things down a bit...

Posted by mojo">mojo 2004-08-10 16:14|| http://]">[http://] 2004-08-10 16:14|| Front Page Top

#2 or we could let the Darfur have one jet armed with a few missiles

Posted by mhw 2004-08-10 16:27|| http://]">[http://] 2004-08-10 16:27|| Front Page Top

#3 Under a joint plan agreed with the United Nations last week, Sudan said it would establish safe areas for the displaced...

I suppose that if you're dead already, you're safe? That's the logic. God help good-hearted people survive this moron government and its scum janjaweed.

Some would like to forget that it was the US that pushed the UN to put up or shut up when mouthing its positions on world crises. We knew the UN was made up of mealy-mouthed hypocrits when we pushed for our resolution on Iraq; we knew in our hearts that France, Germany, and Russia, among others, would betray us, and this is what gave Bush little incentive to woo them early on for support.They paraded themselves as humane partners, then buckled, relented, and allowed us to take a flat blade of betrayal across the face, leaving our soldiers with few to help them lift the heavy weight of changing the world for the better. Time passed and the world conveniently forgot that the UN buckled, and instead tried to make out the US as a rabid aggressor in Iraq, an imperialist hog for oil. But as time passed and that argument grew thin, old, and unproven, Darfur sprang up to remind the world that the UN is still spineless, rotten, pitted through and through. These people of Darfur will likely die, like the Rwandans and Bosnians before them, and the UN will posture on. We need to smelt down the UN and put a new, stronger metal in its place.

Posted by jules 187 2004-08-10 17:14|| http://]">[http://] 2004-08-10 17:14|| Front Page Top

#4 THE GODDAMN WORTHLESS PIECE OF SHIT u.n. !!!!! Is there no end to the bullshit that emanates from that cesspool? Is there no end to the "goodwill" they bestow upon the helpless people of the world? Hell, with friends like the u.n., who needs ~~enemies~~ enemas?

Posted by Halfass Pete 2004-08-10 17:44|| http://]">[http://] 2004-08-10 17:44|| Front Page Top

#5 What model choppers are the Sudanese military flying?

This is what the Sudanese supposedly have for helicopters. Quantities are estimates, and half of these may be grounded.

10 Agusta Bell AO212 (Italian built - supposedly transport types)

12 ICA IAR-330L (Romanian-built Pumas)

20 MBB Bo105CB

6 Mil Mi-8T Hip

6 Mil Mi-24 Hind-D

The last two types may have been financed by Iran in the late 80s/early 90s.

Posted by Pappy 2004-08-10 21:24|| 2004-08-10 21:24|| Front Page Top

#6 who in darfur would fly that one jet?

Posted by Anonymous6105 2004-08-23 9:15:42 PM|| 2004-08-23 9:15:42 PM|| Front Page Top

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