Sudan Becomes "Ally" In War On Terror Despite Darfur Genocide

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:bangheads

Now I know Pres. Bush is getting bad intel from the idiots at the CIA. The hundred foot elephant in the room of Sudan-US relations is the fact that the same Sudanese Islamists heading to Iraq (and getting there too) are cutting their teeth waging jihad in the ranks of the janjaweed militias, who rape, torture and slaughter tens of thousands in Darfur.

But since the US government is trying to "Clintonize" (downplay casualties, halt gov't official use of the word "genocide" to describe what's happening, apply zero pressure to other nations to get involved, etc etc) Darfur, I'm not surprised. Why not a formal announcement of abandonment of the Darfur people to be truthful about the shift in US policy towards it and Sudan?

http://www.mg.co.za/articlepage.aspx?area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__africa/&articleid=236789

Sudan's Islamist regime, once shunned by Washington for providing a haven for Osama bin Laden as well as for human rights abuses during decades of civil war, has become an ally in the Bush administration's "war on terror".

Only months after the US accused Khartoum of carrying out genocide in Darfur, Sudan has become a crucial intelligence asset to the CIA.

In the Middle East and Africa, Sudan's agents have penetrated networks that would not normally be accessible to America, one former US intelligence official told the Guardian. Some of that cooperation has spilled over into the war in Iraq: Sudan is credited with detaining foreign militants on their way to join anti-American fighters there.

Sudanese agents have also helped the CIA to monitor Islamist organisations in Somalia.

"The intelligence relationship is the strongest thread between Washington and Khartoum," the official said. "Khartoum is probably the only government in the Arab League that has contributed in a major way to the protection of US forces and citizens in Iraq."
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