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azurnoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-01-08 05:58 PM
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American diplomat killed in Sudan
Source: AP

The diplomat's family identified him as John Granville, 33, originally of Buffalo, N.Y. He was an official for the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, working to implement a 2005 peace agreement between Sudan's north and south that ended more than two decades of civil war, the family said.

He was being driven home at about 4 a.m. when another vehicle cut off his car and opened fire before fleeing the scene, the Sudanese Interior Ministry said.

The diplomat's driver, 40-year-old Abdel-Rahman Abbas, was killed. Granville initially survived the attack with five gunshot wounds to the hand, shoulder and stomach. He died after surgery, said Walter Braunohler, the public affairs officer at the U.S. Embassy in Khartoum.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080101/ap_on_re_af/sudan_diplomat_attack;_ylt=AoPM4xZLYip2hd9MHBCW5z5vaA8F



Maybe now our "leaders" will do something about the situation in the Sudan, but will it help?
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UndertheOcean Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-01-08 06:05 PM
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1. Yup , one American should stir them up , not the more than 200,000 souls lost
up to now , sad.
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azurnoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-01-08 06:24 PM
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2. Kinda' blows Georges "no attacks on America" speil too
Edited on Tue Jan-01-08 06:25 PM by azurnoir
the 3888+ killed in Iraq don't count either.
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Sultana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-02-08 01:51 AM
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4. The number of dead is much more than 200,000
Don't just count the Darfur victims, it's much more than that (Civil War etc...).

My dad is going to Sudan this yr, I am scared for him.:-(
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Sultana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-02-08 01:46 AM
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3. This won't spur America into action
:eyes:
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