Sudan-CIA relationship preventing intervention?

[Terran1212]

http://www.sudantribune.com/article.php3?id_article=9686
Excerpt:


John Whitehead of the Rutherford Institute reminds us that "eportedly, when President George W. Bush first read reports of former-President Clinton's indifference to the genocide that left roughly 800,000 dead in Rwanda, he scribbled 'not on my watch' in the margins."

Now, very much on his watch, to nurture his partnership with the genocidal government of Sudan, Bush has become an accomplice in that genocide by not mobilizing action against it.

Next week: unmistakable evidence that Sudan's equivalent of the CIA, the Mukhabarat, is indeed providing the CIA with exceptionally valuable information on terrorists' organizing, and their planned actions, against the United States. Can the Bush administration make a reasonable survival argument that for America's self-defense, it has no choice but to continue its "fruitful relationship" with this ruthless force of evil-even if more white-robed children, like those outside the school in Um Seifa, are raped and murdered?

I'll be very interested in your reactions.

[Adelante]

1. Here's the LA Times article

Sudan Tribune/LA Times 4/29/05

Sudan considered valuable ally in US war on terrorism: LAT report


Despite once harboring Bin Laden, Khartoum regime has supplied key intelligence, officials say.

By Ken Silverstein, The Los Angeles Times

KHARTOUM, Sudan, Apr 29, 2005 -- The Bush administration has forged a close intelligence partnership with the Islamic regime that once welcomed Osama bin Laden here, even though Sudan continues to come under harsh U.S. and international criticism for human rights violations.

The Sudanese government, an unlikely ally in the U.S. fight against terror, remains on the most recent U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism. At the same time, however, it has been providing access to terrorism suspects and sharing intelligence data with the United States.

Last week, the CIA sent an executive jet here to ferry the chief of Sudan's intelligence agency to Washington for secret meetings sealing Khartoum's sensitive and previously veiled partnership with the administration, U.S. government officials confirmed.

A decade ago Bin Laden and his fledgling Al Qaeda network were based in Khartoum. After they left for Afghanistan, the regime of Sudanese strongman Lt. Gen. Omar Hassan Ahmed Bashir retained ties with other groups the U.S. accuses of terrorism.

As recently as September, then-Secretary of State Colin L. Powell accused Sudan of committing genocide in putting down an armed rebellion in the western province of Darfur. And the administration warned that the African country's conduct posed "an extraordinary threat to the national security" of the United States.

Behind the scenes, however, Sudan was emerging as a surprisingly valuable ally of the CIA.

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http://www.sudantribune.com/article.php3?id_article=9335

To answer your question, this is only the half of it. The other half would be oil exploration.

[Terran1212]

2. I understand

More Bu$hit

[Telly Savalas]

3. 'Not on my watch'???

I'm too lazy to dig up a link, but I'm 99% sure that in one of the 2000 debates against Gore, he said something to the effect that he wouldn't have intervened in Rwanda either and that he didn't believe in nation building. The nation building comment was so far at odds with his actions towards Iraq, that there's a 50 foot tall statue of the man in front of the Flip Flop Hall of Fame.