US threatens sanctions on Sudanese oil

[seemslikeadream]

Staff and agencies
Wednesday September 8, 2004

The US today drafted a resolution to the UN security council, threatening Sudan with sanctions on its oil output if does not rein in Arab militia fighters in the Darfur region.
The text, seen by Reuters, demands Sudan submits the names of Janjaweed militiamen it has disarmed and arrested for abuses, and calls for the establishment of an enlarged African Union monitoring force with an extended mandate.

It does not set a deadline by which Sudan must comply, but diplomats have told the news agency that one could be added during negotiations with council members.

The Janjaweed are accused of killing, raping and driving out villagers in Darfur, allegedly with the tacit support of the national government in Khartoum. More than one million people have been driven from their land over the last 18 months.
more
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sudan/story/0,14658,1299979,00.html

[catmandu57]

1. Right

Keep the oil there until we can come in and steal it fair and square.

[DulceDecorum]

2. Funny isn't it

how all the terrorists live in oil-rich nations.

Though I must confess that
some terrorists live in nations that are rich in other minerals.

I wonder what Thomas Barnett,
current darling of the Pentagon planners,
has to say about nations with un-exploited mineral wealth....

[seemslikeadream]

3. Dulcey I just recently found this

Have you ever heard of it?
Christian Pharisees target China, Sudan
Executive Intelligence Review, July 4, 1997, p. 83

On June 23, a gaggle activists ranging from the "religious right" and neo-con networks, to liberal Democrats, held a summit on religious persecution overseas. The meeting, held at the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C., was to organize a grassroots, church-based movement to target certain nations allegedly persecuting religious minorities. These people are no more interested in protecting religious freedom, than the 1980s' Project Democracy was intended to promote democracy. A look at one of the leading participants, Christian Solidarity International (CSI), shows clearly that what is being organized is a grassroots mob to cover for the foreign policy of the British oligarchy: the destruction of nation-states. The whipping boys for these modern Pharisees are the two premier nation-states of the developing sector, Sudan and China.



The meeting included the London-controlled Freedom House of Leo Cherne (chairman of the Reagan-Bush President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board), the Family Research Council of Gary Bauer (another specimen from the Reagan-Bush White House), Father Richard Newhouse, a radical epigone of Michael Novak, Michael Horowitz from the Hudson Institute, CSI's Jim Jacobson, Ralph Reed of the Christian Coalition, and another Catholic radical free-trader, William Bennett of Empower America, among other cheer- leaders for the "Contract on America." The odd Democrat made for ecumenical window-dressing, including co-chair Sen. Joe Lieberman (Conn.). The event was sponsored by Empower America, and co-chaired by Bennett.

Nina Shea of Freedom House opened the gathering, with a broadside against Sudan, which is de rigueur for any meeting involving Lady Caroline Cox's Christian Solidarity International. Cox is making a career of trying to overthrow the Sudanese government, under cover of saving Christians, and is currently organizing logistical support for Sudanese rebels who, under her influence, have refused to join the government-initiated peace treaty to end the decades-long civil war. Along with Lady Lynda Chalker, Cox is also organizing support for the Ethiopian and Eritrean allies of Ugandan dictator Yoweri Museveni, who are currently attempting to invade Sudan.

more
http://216.239.41.104/search?q=cache:CmgKgb1Ci5EJ:www.aboutsudan.com/opposition/us/christian_pharisees.htm+Christian+Solidarity+International+bush&hl=en

[Parche]

4. sanctions

UN security council?
I though GW Bush said that he doesnt need a permission slip from the
UN
Is he a hypocrite