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| Reign of Terror |
| By Nicholas Kristof - New York Times - September 11, 2004 |
| On my last visit to the Darfur area in Sudan, in June, I found a man groaning under a tree. He had been shot in the neck and jaw and left for dead in a pile of corpses. Seeking shelter under the very next tree were a pair of widows whose husbands had both been shot to death. Under the next tree I found a 4-year-old orphan girl caring for her starving 1-year-old brother. And under the tree next to that was a woman whose husband had been killed, along with her 7- and 4-year-old sons, before she was gang-raped and mutilated. |
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| Who Cares About Darfur? |
| Washington Post - September 4, 2004 |
| UNTIL RECENTLY, the international momentum on Darfur seemed positive. The plight of Sudan's western province was recognized as the world's most pressing humanitarian crisis, and a congressional resolution described the eradication of African villages by a government-backed Arab militia as genocide. After much misguided talk about getting Sudan's government to protect civilians in the region -- a wishful idea, given that the government's proxies have taken children from mothers and tossed them into fires -- a consensus has more or less formed that foreign peacekeepers are needed. But now, despite this progress, it seems the momentum is fizzling, in which case the world will have woken up to a catastrophe and understood what it must do -- and then decided not to do it. |
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| Jon Carroll on Bush Administration Fear-mongering |
| By Jon Carroll - San Francisco Chronicle - August 17, 2004 |
| The year was 1898. A combined force of 8,000 British regulars and 17, 000 Sudanese and Egyptian soldiers was moving up the Nile, pressing into what is now the wretched country of Sudan. They were under the command of Gen. Herbert Kitchener, who was attempting to engage the Dervishes, a large army of warriors (50,000 or more) led by the Khalifa, the successor to the Mahdi. It was the legendary Mahdi who had defeated "Chinese" Gordon at Khartoum 13 years before, an event viewed in Britain as an inexplicable outrage. |
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| Iraq-al Qaeda Connection Never Panned Out |
| By Keith Vance - Modern Populist - July 26, 2004 |
Even though the 9/11 commission has said there is "no credible evidence" of an Iraqi/al Qaeda working relationship, Bush continues to insist that Iraq and al Qaeda did work together to attack the United States.
"There was a relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda. We did say there were numerous contacts between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda, for example, Iraqi intelligence officers met with bin Laden, the head of al Qaeda, in Sudan." Bush said. |
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