Bush to Meet With Sudanese Rebel Leader

[Rose Siding]

(AP) Rebel leader Minni Minnawi's decision to accept a peace agreement designed to end what the United States calls genocide in western Sudan earned him a meeting with President Bush.

A major topic of discussion Tuesday at the White House was sure to be Bush's desire to bring African Union peacekeepers under the blue flag and helmets of the United Nations in Sudanese Liberation Movement leader Minnawi's Darfur region.
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Although the agreement has held in some areas, signs of trouble have appeared. Two weeks ago at the United Nations, Jan Egeland, the U.N. humanitarian chief, said the region is facing a new wave of killings and rapes from fighting between rebel factions that displaced thousands of villagers. Egeland blamed Minnawi's faction of the Sudanese Liberation Movement.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/07/25/ap/politics/mainD8J2SQPG2.shtml

[babylonsister]

1. Let's see how he can screw this up! nt

[Rose Siding]

2. Host a perpetrator of genocide and he's halfway there.

He won't even SPEAK with Iran, but this WH guest -who's atrocities are ongoing, according to the UN- gives bush a photo op where he boasts progress in Darfur.

It isn't that I don't think he should talk to him. It's just that the double standard is so obviously meant for domestic political consumption.

[babylonsister]

3. His priorities are so messed up; who's talking in his earpiece today? nt

[zreosumgame]

4. what will dumbaya

try to 'massage' this time, I wonder...

[Cocoa]

6. he'll nickname him "Mini Me"

Condi's out of the country, she won't be able to stop him.

[MrPrax]

5. In a perfect world...

In a perfect world...The US would have signed the ICC and would have arrested Minni Minnawi and transfered him to the Hague instead of bolstering his standing among the other rebel groups.

In a perfect world...The UN would have deployed a 'real' peacekeeping force instead of being undermined by the African Union, which is largely made up of neighbouring countries that have designs on Sudanese territory and it's oil and as such NO incentive to solve the Sudanese Darfur problem.

In a perfect world, this would have been solved back in the 60s with the first peace agreement....

[leesa]

7. The guy must need guns.

[MetaTrope]

8. Minni Minnawi: A Saddam Hussein for the 21st Century

[MisterP]

9. huh, Condi called Khartoum a close Warren Terra ally

maybe they can drag Uganda and Ethiopia's neolib governments in