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\n

Africom\u2019s Covert War in Sudan<\/h1>\n

by Keith Harmon Snow \/ March 6th, 2009<\/p>\n

\n

I
\nrecently received a phone call from an Australian man who identified
\nhimself as an investigator for the prosecutor at the International
\nCriminal Court (ICC) at the Hague, Netherlands. The investigator and
\nhis colleague had read my story, \u201cMerchant\u2019s of Death: Exposing Corporate Financed Holocaust in Africa<\/a>,\u201d
\nand wanted my cooperation to provide more detailed evidence about the
\nwarlords behind the massacres at Bogoro, Congo, described briefly in my
\nstory.<\/p>\n

After some weeks of back and forth discussions and me revisiting
\nnotes and photos to see what I had, I sent them an e-mail at the
\ndefinitive moment when they were hoping to receive a brief \u201cdossier\u201d
\nabout the specific case \u2014 which they said \u201chad generated a lot of
\ninterest\u201d at the ICC \u2014 and I shared my uncertainty about the ethics of
\ncollaborating with an \u201cInternational Criminal Court\u201d that was only
\nindicting black Africans. I indicated my concern for the witness
\n\u2018Sandrine,\u2019 a young girl discussed in my story who named names of
\ncommanders, dates of executions, and who herself used a machete in an
\nethnic massacre and was raped by militiamen. I noted that witnesses
\nidentified for the Rwandan Tribunal (ICTR) had been murdered or
\nmysteriously disappeared, and noted my awareness of the injustice of
\nthe Tribunals for Yugoslavia and Rwanda, and the disconcerting
\ntrajectory of the ICC.<\/p>\n

I told them I couldn\u2019t in good conscience help them, it seemed,
\nuntil the ICC arrested some of the white-collar war criminals running
\nloose around the world. It was the right decision, in light of the
\nrecent ICC indictments against another black man, and an Arab at that.
\nIt was a very stupid career move, some one else remarked.<\/p>\n

On 4 March 2009 the ICC prosecutors announced that they were at last
\nissuing the long-threatened but first ever indictments against a
\nsitting head of state, Omar al-Bashir, the Arab President of Sudan.
\nMeanwhile, Somali \u2018pirates\u2019 off East Africa recently freed a Ukrainian
\nship with a Panamanian registration, a Ukrainian crew and flag of
\nBelize. The freighter carried tanks, rockets and munitions destined for
\nDarfur, and is owned by an Israeli \u2018businessman\u2019 and reputed MOSSAD
\noperative named Vadim Alperin.<\/p>\n

It is difficult to make sense of the war in Darfur \u2014 especially when
\npeople see it as a one-sided \u201cgenocide\u201d of Arabs against blacks that is
\nbeing committed by the Bashir \u2018regime\u2019 \u2014 but such is the establishment
\npropaganda. The real story is much more expansive, more complex, and it
\nrevolves around some relatively unknown but shady characters. What
\nfollows is a short and imperfect summary of some of the deeper
\ngeopolitical realities behind the struggle for Sudan.<\/p>\n

THE POLITICS OF WAR CRIMES<\/strong><\/p>\n

First note that the ICC can now be viewed as a tool of hegemonic
\nU.S. foreign policy, where the weapons deployed by the U.S. and its
\nallies include the accusations of, and indictments for, human rights
\nviolations, war crimes and crimes against humanity. To understand this,
\nwe can ask why no white man has yet been charged with these or other
\noffenses at the ICC, which now holds five black African \u201cwarlords\u201d and
\nseeks to incarcerate and bring to trial another black man, also an
\nArab, Omar Bashir. Why hasn\u2019t George W. Bush been indicted? Or what
\nabout Donald Rumsfeld? Dick Cheney? Henry Kissinger? Ehud Olmert? Tony
\nBlair? Vadim Alperin? John Bredenkamp?<\/p>\n

Following on the heels of the announcement that the ICC handed down
\nseven war crimes charges against al-Bashir, a story broadcast over all
\nthe Western media system and into every American living room by day\u2019s
\nend, President al-Bashir ordered the expulsion of ten international
\nnon-governmental organizations (NGOs) operating in Darfur under the
\npretense of being purely \u2018humanitarian\u2019 organizations.<\/p>\n

What has not been reported anywhere in the English press is that the
\nUnited States of America has just stepped up its ongoing war for
\ncontrol of Sudan and her resources: petroleum, copper, gold, uranium,
\nfertile plantation lands for sugar and gum Arabic (essential to Coke,
\nPepsi and Ben & Jerry\u2019s ice cream). This war has been playing out
\non the ground in Darfur through so-called \u2018humanitarian\u2019 NGOs, private
\nmilitary companies, \u2018peacekeeping\u2019 operations and covert military
\noperations backed by the U.S. and its closest allies.<\/p>\n

However, the U.S. war for Sudan has always revolved around
\n\u2018humanitarian\u2019 operations \u2014 purportedly neutral and presumably
\nconcerned only about protecting innocent human lives \u2014 that often
\nprovide cover for clandestine destabilizing activities and
\ninterventions.<\/p>\n

Americans need to recognize that the Administration of President
\nBarack Obama has begun to step up the war for control of Sudan in
\nkeeping with the permanent warfare agenda of both Republicans and
\nDemocrats. The current destabilization of Sudan mirrors the illegal
\ncovert guerrilla war carried out in Rwanda \u2014 also launched and supplied
\nfrom Uganda \u2014 from October 1990 to July 1994. The Rwandan Defense
\nForces (then called the Rwandan Patriotic Army) led by Major General
\nPaul Kagame achieved the U.S. objective of a coup d\u2019etat in Rwanda
\nthrough that campaign, and President Kagame has been a key interlocutor
\nin the covert warfare underway in Darfur, Sudan.<\/p>\n

During the Presidency of George W. Bush, the U.S. Government was
\ninvolved with the intelligence apparatus of the Government of Sudan
\n(GoS). At the same time, other U.S. political and corporate factions
\nwere pressing for a declaration of genocide against the GoS. Now, given
\nthe shift of power and the appointment of top Clinton officials
\nformerly involved in covert operations in Rwanda, Uganda, Congo and
\nSudan during the Clinton years, pressure has been applied to heighten
\nthe campaign to destabilize the GoS, portrayed as a \u2018terrorist\u2019 Arab
\nregime, but an entity operating outside the U.S.-controlled banking
\nsystem. The former campaign saw overt military action with the U.S.
\nmilitary missile attacks against the Al-Shifa Pharmaceutical factory in
\nSudan (1998); this was an international war crime by the Clinton
\nAdministration and it involved officials now in power.<\/p>\n

The complex geopolitical struggle to control Sudan manifests through
\nthe flashpoint war for Darfur and it involves such diverse factions as
\nthe Lord\u2019s Resistance Army, backed by Khartoum, which is also connected
\nto the wars in the Congo and northern Uganda. Chad is involved, Eritrea
\nand Ethiopia, Germany, the Central African Republic, Libya, France,
\nIsrael, China, Taiwan, South Africa and Rwanda. There are U.S. special
\nforces on the ground in the frontline states of Chad, Uganda, Ethiopia,
\nKenya, and the big questions are: [1] How many of the killings are
\nbeing committed by U.S. proxy forces and blamed on al-Bashir and the
\nGoS? And [2] who funds, arms and trains the rebel insurgents<\/p>\n

UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVASTATION<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rebels? Insurgents? The drumbeat of western propaganda portrays the
\nconflict as a one-sided affair: a \u201cgenocidal counter-insurgency by the
\nGoS\u201d \u2014 in the words of Eric Reeves \u2014 versus the good Samaritans of the
\n\u2018humanitarian\u2019 NGO community . . . and throw in a few (non-descript)
\nrebels.<\/p>\n

\u201cSudan ordered at least 10 humanitarian groups expelled from Darfur
\non Wednesday after the International Criminal Court issued an arrest
\nwarrant for the country\u2019s president,\u201d wrote Associated Press reporter
\nEllen M. Lederer. \u201cSecretary-General Ban Ki-moon said the action
\n\u2018represents a serious setback to lifesaving operations in Darfur\u2019 and
\nurged Sudan to reverse its decision, U.N. deputy spokeswoman Marie
\nOkabe said.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, when Ban Ki-moon met with Rwandan strongman Paul Kagame
\nrecently, he never called for Kagame\u2019s arrest, no matter the findings
\nof two international courts of law that have issued indictments against
\ntop RPA officials. Instead Ban Ki-moon praised Kagame and called for
\nAfrican countries to hunt down and arrest Hutu people purportedly
\ninvolved in the now specious \u2018genocide\u2019 in Rwanda in 1994.<\/p>\n

The non-governmental aid groups ordered out of Darfur by President
\nal-Bashir on March 4 were Oxfam, CARE, MSF-Holland, Mercy Corps, Save
\nthe Children, the Norwegian Refugee Council, the International Rescue
\nCommittee, Action Contre la Faim, Solidarites and CHF International.<\/p>\n

Of course, the western media is all over the expulsion of any big
\n\u2018humanitarian\u2019 moneymaker from Darfur \u2014 the moral outrage is so thick
\nyou can almost wipe it. The NGOs and the press that peddles their
\nimages of suffering babes complain that hundreds of thousands of
\ninnocent refugees will now be subjected to massive unassisted suffering
\n\u2014 as opposed to the assisted suffering they previously faced \u2014 but
\nnever asks with any serious and honest zeal, why and how the displaced
\npersons and refugees came to be displaced or homeless to begin with.
\nNeither do they ask about all the money, intelligence sharing, deal
\nmaking, and collaboration with private or governmental military
\nagencies.<\/p>\n

Large \u2018humanitarian\u2019 NGOs (and \u2018conservation\u2019 NGOs) operate as de facto<\/em>
\nmultinational corporations revolving around massive private profits and
\nhuman suffering. In places like the Democratic Republic of Congo,
\nUganda and Darfur these NGOs also provide infrastructure, logistical
\nand intelligence collaboration that supports U.S. military and
\ngovernment agendas in the region. Most are aligned with big
\nfoundations, corporate sponsors and USAID \u2014 itself a close and
\nlong-time partner for interventions with AFRICOM and the Pentagon.<\/p>\n

Refugees and displaced populations are strategic tools of statecraft
\nand foreign policy, just as \u2018humanitarian\u2019 NGOs consistently use food
\nas a weapon and populations as human shields. The history of the U.S.
\ncovert war in South Sudan is rich with examples of the SPLA and its
\n\u2018humanitarian\u2019 partners, especially Christian \u2018charities\u2019, committing
\nsuch war crimes and crimes against humanity.1<\/a><\/sup> <\/p>\n

CARE International has received funding from Lockheed Martin
\nCorporation, the world\u2019s largest and most secretive producer of weapons
\nof mass destruction, and both CARE and Save the Children are tied up
\nwith weapons and extractive industries in other ways. A peek at the
\nboard of directors of Save the Children makes it clear why the U.S.
\nmedia is so devoid of truth about Darfur. Similarly, the International
\nRescue Committee does not work with refugees, per se, but serves as a
\npolicy and pressure group involved in funneling private profits from
\nthe west back to the west. The IRC has also been cited for involvement
\nin military operations in the Democratic Republic of Congo and it has
\ndeep ties to people like Henry Kissinger.<\/p>\n

The AID (read: misery) industry in Sudan was by the mid-1990s the
\nlargest so-called \u2018humanitarian\u2019 enterprise on the planet, Operation
\nLifeline Sudan (OLS) \u2014 a form of managed inequality and a temporary and
\nmobile economy of white privilege, adventurism and, of course, good
\nwill (sic). The misery industry shifted its focus from South Sudan to
\nDarfur after a pseudo peace \u2018treaty\u2019 was organized to end the decades
\nold war between the SPLA and GoS; the U.S. and Israel backed the SPLA
\nfrom 1990 onward, and continue to do so at present. The result of more
\nthan 12 years of illegal U.S. covert low-intensity warfare in Sudan
\nresulted in the creation of the independent and sovereign state of
\nSouth Sudan in circa 2005 \u2014 a state dominated by Jewish and Christian
\nfaith-based interests and western multinational corporations.<\/p>\n

Much of the AID infrastructure in Sudan has at one time or another
\nbeen used as a weapon through the use of human shields, food deliveries
\nto refugee populations inseparable from insurgents, and shipments of
\nweapons by \u2018humanitarian\u2019 NGOs. This is both incidental and deliberate
\npolicy. Christian \u2018relief\u2019 NGOs played a huge role in supporting the
\ncovert western insurgency in South Sudan. One notable \u2018humanitarian\u2019
\nNGO involved in weapons deliveries was the Norwegian People\u2019s Aid
\n(known affectionately in the field as the Norwegian People\u2019s Army).<\/p>\n

In Darfur, Sudan, the U.S. government agenda is to win control of
\nnatural resources and leverage the Arab government into a corner and,
\nat last, establish a more \u2018friendly\u2019 government that will suit the
\ncorporate interests of the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia and
\nIsrael.<\/p>\n

Several major think tanks \u2014 read: propaganda, lobbying and pressure
\n\u2014 behind the destabilization of Sudan include the Foundation for the
\nDefense of Democracy, Center for American Progress, Center for Security
\nPolicy, International Rescue Committee and International Crises Group.
\nIndividuals from seemingly diverse positions of the political and
\nideological spectrum run these organizations, which are
\nultra-nationalist capitalist organizations bent on global
\nmilitary-economic domination.<\/p>\n

The former Clinton officials most heavily focused on the
\ndestabilization of Sudan include: Susan Rice, Madeleine Albright, Roger
\nWinter, Prudence Bushnell, Hillary Clinton, John Podesta, Anthony Lake
\nand John Prendergast. Carr Center for Human Rights co-founder Samantha
\nPower, now on the Obama National Security Council, has helped to
\nwhitewash clandestine U.S. involvement in Sudan.<\/p>\n

John Prendergast has continued to peddle disinformation disguised as
\npolicy and human rights concerns through the International Crisis Group
\n(ICG), and through its many clone organizations like ENOUGH, ONE and
\nRAISE HOPE FOR CONGO. Prendergast has been a pivotal agent behind the
\nhi-jacking of U.S. public concern and action through the disingenuous
\n(and discredited) SAVE DARFUR movement.<\/p>\n

Other notable agents of disinformation on Sudan include Alex de Waal
\nand Smith College Professor Eric Reeves. It is through these and other
\nconduits to the corporate U.S. media that the story of \u2018genocide\u2019 in
\nSudan is cast as an Africa-Arab affair devoid of western interests.<\/p>\n

In 1992, human rights researchers Rakiya Omaar and Alex de Waal
\nestablished the London-based NGO African Rights. In August 1995,
\nAfrican Rights published Rwanda: Death, Despair and Defiance<\/em>,
\none of many pivotal \u2018human rights\u2019 reports that falsely represented
\nevents in Rwanda, set the stage for victor\u2019s justice at the
\nInternational Criminal Tribunal on Rwanda, and began the process of
\ndehumanizing millions of Hutu people and protecting the true
\nterrorists: Yoweri Museveni, Paul Kagame, the Rwandan Patriotic Army,
\nand their western backers.<\/p>\n

THE MAN FOR A NEW SUDAN<\/strong><\/p>\n

The pivotal intelligence asset working on the ground in Sudan to
\ndestabilize and overthrow the Government of Sudan (GoS) is Roger
\nWinter, profiled very disingenuously in the seven-page New York Times Magazine<\/em> feature story of 15 June 2008.<\/p>\n

Interestingly, \u201cThe Man For A New Sudan\u201d story, an establishment
\nwhitewash of the involvement of the U.S. military-intelligence
\nestablishment in Sudan, was written by Eliza Griswold, a \u2018Fellow\u2019 with
\nthe New America Foundation, a left-leaning think tank and pressure
\ngroup with a very confused ideological but nationalist-militaristic
\nposition. (The NAF is obviously dependent on U.S. foundation funding,
\nand it reveals no apparent policy formulations of substance on the
\nGreat Lakes or Horn of Africa, conflicts for which they remain
\ncompletely silent).<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen Roger Winter\u2019s single-engine Cessna Caravan touched down near
\nthe Sudanese town of Abyei on Easter morning, a crowd of desperate men
\nswamped the plane,\u201d Griswold wrote. \u201cSome came running over the rough
\nred airstrip. Others crammed into a microbus that barreled toward the
\n65-year-old Winter as he climbed down the plane\u2019s silver ladder. Some
\nSudanese call Winter \u2018uncle\u2019; others call him \u2018commander\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

Winter\u2019s special post at the State Department was created
\nspecifically for him and his \u2018work\u2019 in Sudan. Why do Sudanese people in
\nSouth Sudan call Roger Winter \u2018commander\u2019?<\/p>\n

Roger Winter is the primary conduit for the ongoing covert
\ndestabilization of Sudan. His operations are run primarily out of
\nUganda, with the terrorist government of Yoweri Museveni providing
\nsupport through the Uganda People\u2019s Defense Forces (UPDF) alliance with
\nthe Sudan People\u2019s Liberation Army (SPLA).<\/p>\n

The SPLA is the de facto<\/em> backbone of the Sudan Liberation
\nArmy, one of the main so-called \u2018rebel\u2019 factions involved in Darfur;
\nthe SPLA provides military and logistics support to Uganda from the
\nPentagon through unknown channels, but most likely involving the nearby
\nPentagon client states of Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Chad and Eritrea.<\/p>\n

The primary Ugandan agents supporting the U.S. war in Darfur have
\nalways been, and remain, Brigadier General James Kazini, a nephew of
\nUgandan dictator Museveni and the chief of staff of the Ugandan
\nPeople\u2019s Defense Forces (UPDF); General Salim Saleh, half-brother of
\nMuseveni; and President Yoweri Museveni himself.<\/p>\n

One of the main protagonists in the Darfur conflict is the current
\nmilitary regime in Rwanda, whose troops have been involved in Darfur
\nunder the guise of an \u2018independent\u2019 and \u2018peacekeeping\u2019 operation under
\nthe African Union \u2018peacekeeping\u2019 umbrella \u2014 back by NATO and private
\nmilitary companies.<\/p>\n

Little known and widely misunderstood is the role of the United
\nStates and its proxies, the UPDF and the RPA, in committing massive
\ncrimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide during the Rwandan
\nconflagration from 1990 to 1994. Prior to the RPA invasion of Rwanda
\n(from Uganda) in October 1990, the RPA and Rwandan Tutsi Diaspora had
\npublications like Impuruza<\/em> published in the United States
\nbetween 1984 and 1994 (when the RPA achieved the coup d\u2019etat against
\nRwandan President Habyarimana). Tutsi refugees joined Roger Winter, who
\nwas at the time the Director of the United States Committee for
\nRefugees, to help fund the publication. The editor, Alexander Kimenyi,
\nis a Rwandan national and a professor at California State University.
\nLike most RPA publications Impuruza<\/em> circulated clandestinely in Rwanda amongst Hutu and Tutsi elite and it peddled a genocidal ideology against Hutu people.<\/p>\n

The Association of Banyarwanda in Diaspora USA, assisted by Roger
\nWinter, organized the International Conference on the Status of
\nBanyarwanda [Tutsi] Refugees in Washington, DC in 1988, and this is
\nwhere a military solution to the Tutsi problem was chosen. The U.S.
\nCommittee for Refugees reportedly provided accommodation and
\ntransportation.<\/p>\n

THE DEVIL CAME IN A HELIOCOPTER<\/strong><\/p>\n

Roger Winter was one of the primary architects of the RPA guerrilla
\nwar, organized from Washington in 1989, that has led to the loss of
\nmore than ten or twelve million lives in the Great Lakes of Africa
\nsince 1990. Winter acted as a spokesman for the RPF and their allies,
\nand he appeared as a guest on major U.S. television networks such as
\nPBS and CNN. New Yorker<\/em> writer Philip Gourevitch and Roger Winter made contacts on behalf of the RPA with American media, particularly the Washington Post<\/em>, New York Times<\/em> and Time<\/em> magazine.<\/p>\n

Roger Winter moved through Rwanda during the RPA invasion and worked
\nthe front lines of the covert war as a key Pentagon and U.S. State
\nDepartment asset in collaboration with the Kagame-RPA operation of
\nterror. From 1990 to 1994, Winter traveled back and forth from the
\nRPA-controlled zone to Washington D.C., where he briefed and
\ncoordinated activities and support with U.S. military, intelligence and
\ngovernment officials.<\/p>\n

Roger Winter is intimate with USAID, and is a long-time ally of
\nSusan Rice, former Assistant Secretary of State on African Affairs
\n(1997-2001), Special Assistant to President Clinton (1995-1997), and
\nNational Security Council insider (1993-1997). Susan Rice is the Obama
\nAdministration\u2019s Ambassador to the United Nations and staunch enemy of
\nOmar al-Bashir.<\/p>\n

Roger Winter is also a staunch supporter of U.S. Rep. Donald Payne,
\none of the leading U.S. Democrats pressing for action to \u201cstop
\ngenocide\u201d in Darfur, Sudan. Payne sponsored the Darfur Genocide
\nAccountability Act and was arrested in June 2001, along with John
\nEibner, director of Christian Solidarity International, for protesting
\nagainst the GoS.<\/p>\n

Christian Solidarity International has a very subversive
\nrelationship to \u2018peace\u2019 and \u2018religion\u2019 in Sudan, and they have been one
\nof the front-runner organizations peddling the accusations of slavery
\nby the al-Bashir government, in particular, a highly contested and
\ncontroversial issue generally inflated and manipulated by
\nfundamentalist Jewish and Christian NGOs and missionary organizations,
\nlike Christian Solidarity International, Samaritan\u2019s Purse, Servant\u2019s
\nHeart, and Freedom Quest International, that operate in Sudan.<\/p>\n

\u201cRoger Winter was the chief logistic boss for [RPA] Tutsis as early
\nas mid-1990,\u201d says Ugandan human rights expert Remigius Kintu, \u201cand
\nuntil their victory in 1994 they were operating from 1,717
\nMassachusetts Avenue NW in Washington, D.C. Roger Winter told a [name
\ndeleted] South Sudanese exile at the time [1994]: \u2018I have now
\nstabilized Rwanda and will turn my full attention to Sudan.\u2019 Winter
\nsubsequently closed up shop in Rwanda and based himself in Kampala
\nworking on Sudan. A few years later, Darfur exploded and with Winter\u2019s
\nmanipulations, Rwanda was the first to send troops into that troubled
\narea. From my sources, the Rwanda Defense Forces [working under the
\nAfrican Union umbrella] have killed civilians and brought in their
\nmedia experts to pile the blame on Sudanese government troops.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is exactly what the Kagame and Museveni terror apparatus has
\ndone in Uganda, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Much of
\nthe terror operations of the UPDF\/RPF in Rwanda in the 1990s were
\ncovered up by Human Rights Watch experts Alison Des Forges (d. February
\n2009) and Timothy Longman, Associate Prof. of Africana Studies and
\nPolitical Science at Vassar College.<\/p>\n

Similarly, throughout the long war in south Sudan, and now in
\nDarfur, the atrocities committed by the U.S.-backed factions were\/are
\ndownplayed, dismissed or ignored, while those committed by competing
\nfactions are amplified and spotlighted. Also, following the pattern of
\nUPDF and RPA criminal activities \u2014 such as massacres committed under
\ndisguise and\/or attributed to the \u2018enemy\u2019 \u2014 for which there is now a
\nlong history of documentation, and given the lack of any true
\nindependent evaluation, there is no telling who actually committed the
\nmassacres always blamed on the GoS or \u2018Janjaweed\u2019 militias.<\/p>\n

One Sudanese professional from the south told me recently that it
\nwas not the Government of Sudan but rather the UPDF and SPLA who were
\narming the Janjaweed \u2014 the so-called Arab militias accused of wanton
\nkilling in an Arab-against-Black genocide. (This Arab-on-black genocide
\nhas been widely discredited.<\/p>\n

Professor Timothy Longman and Alison Des Forges co-produced the fat treatise on \u2018genocide\u2019 in Rwanda, Leave None to Tell the Story<\/em>,
\npublished in 1999. Longman and Des Forges produced numerous documents,
\nbased on field investigations in Congo (Zaire), Rwanda and Burundi,
\nfrom 1995 to 2008, touted as independent and unbiased human rights
\nreports but always skewed by hidden interests. Both Longman and Des
\nForges had relationships with the U.S. Department of State, National
\nSecurity Council and Pentagon, both were regular consultants with
\nUSAID, and they certainly worked with Roger Winter, the Pentagon\u2019s
\nsecret weapon in Sudan. <\/p>\n

On 25 September 2008, a Ukrainian freighter was seized by \u2018pirates\u2019
\noff the coast of Somalia and was held until a ransom of $3.2 million
\nwas paid on 5 February 2009. (Somali fishermen disenfranchised by
\ninternational dumping of toxic [and possibly nuclear] wastes off
\nSomalia are labeled \u2018pirates\u2019 when they fight for their rights and
\nfreedoms.) The MV Faina is registered in Belize, owned by a company
\nregistered in Panama and piloted by Ukrainians. The MV Faina carried 33
\nSoviet T-72 battle tanks, grenade-launchers, anti-aircraft guns and
\nammunition en route to Mombassa, Kenya, the Pentagon\u2019s primary base on
\nthe east coast of Africa.<\/p>\n

The U.S. Navy\u2019s 5th Fleet monitored the Ukrainian ship during the
\nfour-month standoff, with the MV Faina pinned down by at least six U.S.
\nand four European warships. The ship\u2019s owner is Israeli national Vadim
\nAlperin (alias Vadim Oltrena Alperin), said to be a MOSSAD agent
\ninvolved with clandestine activities through offshore front companies
\nand money laundering. The ship was unloaded in Mombassa on February 12,
\nand the weapons are destined for Juba, South Sudan.<\/p>\n

There are reports that weaponry also included tank munitions heads
\nsporting deadly depleted uranium and that the final recipients are the
\nIsraeli-backed Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) \u2018rebels\u2019 in Darfur.
\nSudan has previously accused Israel of supporting \u2018rebels\u2019 in the
\nDarfur war. International arms syndicates and dealers routinely
\ntransfer \u2018Soviet-era\u2019 arms for international organized crime, including
\ncovert military operations involving proxy militias and national
\ngovernments in Sudan, Uganda, Congo, Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya and
\nRwanda.<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. See: keith harmon snow, \u201cOil in Darfur? Special Ops in Somalia?<\/a>\u201d Global Research<\/em>, 7 February 2007. [\u21a9<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Keith
    \nHarmon Snow is an independent human rights investigator and war
    \ncorrespondent who worked with Survivors Rights International
    \n(2005-2006), Genocide Watch (2005-2006) and the United Nations (2006)
    \nto document and expose genocide and crimes against humanity in Sudan
    \nand Ethiopia. He has worked in 17 countries in Africa, and he recently
    \nworked in Afghanistan.     Read other articles by Keith<\/a>, or visit Keith’s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

    This article was posted on Friday, March 6th, 2009 at 9:02am and is filed under “Aid”<\/a>, Genocide<\/a>, Human Rights<\/a>, Imperialism<\/a>, NGOs<\/a>, Propaganda<\/a>, Sudan<\/a>.
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    1. \n

      bozh<\/cite> said on March 6th, 2009 at 10:58am #<\/a><\/p>\n

      once stars and starlettes got involved in darfur conflict, i knew it was a fake concern.
      \nthnx<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    2. \n

      sk<\/cite> said on March 6th, 2009 at 1:01pm #<\/a><\/p>\n

      This<\/a>
      \ninterview of someone who spent decades in Africa as an administrator in
      \nthe \u2018AID (read: misery) industry\u2019 might lift the scales from a few eyes
      \n(that is, for that minority which wishes to see more clearly and that
      \nisn\u2019t blinded by rage at the temerity of anyone questioning the motive
      \nof \u2018agents of virtue\u2019 from the same self-perpetuating industry).<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    3. \n

      DanE<\/cite> said on March 6th, 2009 at 2:07pm #<\/a><\/p>\n

      I will shortly forward this excellent well-focussed & well-organized article to my contacts list. <\/p>\n

      A cpl minor pts: California State University is a statewide system
      \nwith upwards of a dozen campuses; California readers probably would be
      \ninterested to know at which this Alexander Kimenyi can be found. <\/p>\n

      I spotted a few typos. \u201cPeak\u201d instead of \u201cpeek\u201d had me confused for a long moment. <\/p>\n

      If I was your copyeditor, which I\u201dm not, I\u2019d suggest using less
      \nconjunctions between clauses. Often just a period followed by a new
      \nsentence would work better for me. (?)<\/p>\n

      Good job! now to copy & spread it around.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    4. \n

      lloyd rowsey<\/cite> said on March 6th, 2009 at 4:45pm #<\/a><\/p>\n

      The
      \npiece is now posted at OpEdNews, in the \u201cGeneral_News\u201d column, about
      \nhalf-way across the front page. Go quickly and comment, gentle readers
      \n(and generous editor). Pieces not promoted to the headlines at OEN get
      \npushed down out of sight VERY quickly, as a rule.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    5. \n

      keith harmon snow<\/a><\/cite> said on March 6th, 2009 at 5:46pm #<\/a><\/p>\n

      hello<\/p>\n

      conjunction? what is a conjunction? <\/p>\n

      lol. honestly, i really have no idea. failed penmanship in 2nd grade
      \n\u2014 teacher smashed a yardstick over my knuckles and all English related
      \nclasses became a problem after that. <\/p>\n

      BUSH BEFORE BASHIR!!!<\/p>\n

      blessings
      \nkeith<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    6. \n

      denk<\/cite> said on March 6th, 2009 at 10:06pm #<\/a><\/p>\n

      War Crime Shock<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    7. \n

      RH2<\/cite> said on March 7th, 2009 at 6:58am #<\/a><\/p>\n

      keith,<\/p>\n

      A nice comment. Caring about conjunction reflects the nitpicking of the bored Middle Class.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    8. \n

      keith harmon snow<\/a><\/cite> said on March 7th, 2009 at 7:44am #<\/a><\/p>\n

      Hi<\/p>\n

      That may be, but I was not putting anyone down. I simply have no
      \nidea what a conjunction is. It may sound stupid, but I\u2019m an imperfect
      \nwriter.<\/p>\n

      blessings
      \nkeith<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    9. \n

      bozh<\/cite> said on March 7th, 2009 at 8:02am #<\/a><\/p>\n

      long, long ago our army became their army; followed by our land, boys, laws, etc.
      \nand then our police was never ours; it was always theirs; followed by FBI, CIA
      \nand, then suddenly and soddenly, our[or was it ever ours?] ICC became their ICC.
      \nof course ICTY, was set up by \u2018good\u2019 guys. but there is no ICTUSA, or ICTI.
      \nthnx<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    10. \n

      RH2<\/cite> said on March 7th, 2009 at 8:07am #<\/a><\/p>\n

      keith,<\/p>\n

      I have not accused you of putting anyone down. You write pretty
      \nwell. A conjunction is the connection of two or more statements with a
      \ncomma (,) or a semicolon (;).<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    11. \n

      Gideon<\/cite> said on March 7th, 2009 at 11:59am #<\/a><\/p>\n

      What a coalition! Iran, Hamas and Hezbollah support Sudan\u2019s president.
      \n300,000 Dead and 2.7 Million refugees since 2003.<\/p>\n

      Dissident Voice contributors of all shapes and colors, please express your opinions!<\/p>\n

      I am specifically interested to hear comparison between THIS and the
      \nlatest crisis in Gaza and Arab \u2013 Israeli conflict in general.<\/p>\n

      Sudan\u2019s President expelled 13 of the largest aid organizations in Darfur, putting at risk:
      \na) food and drinking water for 1.1 million people ,
      \nb) health care for 1.5 million
      \nc) huge risk of infectious disease for All.<\/p>\n

      Up to 300,000 people have DIED and 2.7 million driven from their homes in the conflict since 2003, according to the U.N.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    12. \n

      kahar<\/cite> said on March 7th, 2009 at 2:22pm #<\/a><\/p>\n

      Gideon,
      \nhow about you read the aticle of this thread first and then you\u2019ll have
      \na better idea of what you\u2019re talking about and less chance of making
      \nyourself look like an apologist for Israeli genocidal crimes? <\/p>\n

      This is a great article.
      \nKeith does a thorough job in exposing the agents, agencies, mass media
      \nand the machinations involved in a coordinated take down attempt of a
      \nsovereign state. Similar techniques have been used elsewhere, the truth
      \nwiped out and history rewritten. Reporters like Keith are indeed a rare
      \nspecies.
      \n(Btw, Keith, I think what Dan\u2019s getting at is that a few of your
      \nsentences around the middle of the article would read faster if they
      \nwere chopped in two, that\u2019s all.)
      \nAnd, Lloyd, I wouldn\u2019t bother with OEN, their editors are nearly all
      \ntempraMENTAL Obamaniacs and fascists and I doubt anything will change
      \nthat.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    13. \n

      Gideon<\/cite> said on March 7th, 2009 at 2:52pm #<\/a><\/p>\n

      Sudan \u2013 Hamas, Hezbolah, Iran: Tell me who your friends are, I\u2019ll tell \u2026
      \nWhat about the innocent people? Where is the Dissident outcry?<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    14. \n

      RH2<\/cite> said on March 7th, 2009 at 3:04pm #<\/a><\/p>\n

      Gideon,<\/p>\n

      There is nothing to add to the comment of kahar. I will never do you
      \nany favor offering you numbers which you will immediately misinterpret.
      \nAre you really intersted in the Dissident outcry for humanity? In my
      \nopinion you have passed through some PR training and try to bring your
      \nZionist propaganda here. Have you really any sense for the suffering of
      \nhuman beings? You lie, fake, deceive, evade topics and fear facts and
      \nreason.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    15. \n

      Gideon<\/cite> said on March 7th, 2009 at 4:26pm #<\/a><\/p>\n

      Gaza \u2013 thanks God the Aid never stopped! Do I need to thank someone else?<\/p>\n

      Nearly 50% of the children under five in this region are
      \nsuffering from global acute malnutrition and need emergency feeding.<\/p>\n

      \u201cIn Jan. 2009 Darfur has experienced the most intense fighting seen in the last year\u201d! <\/p>\n

      Wow, what else happened in the world in January, that Dissident Voice missed this one?<\/p>\n

      Darfur casualties available count: <\/p>\n

      *between Jan. and Sep. 2008: 1,200 <\/p>\n

      *between Sep 2003 \u2013 Jun 2005: 41,000<\/p>\n

      *Civilians account for between 65 and 75% of all fatalities.
      \n 70% of civilians die in what appear to be one-sided attacks.<\/p>\n

      Sources: GI-Net and UNAMID<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    16. \n

      RH2<\/cite> said on March 7th, 2009 at 4:49pm #<\/a><\/p>\n

      Gideon,<\/p>\n

      This article has plainly mentioned the organizations and
      \nImperial\/Zionist\/UN connections involved in these killings you
      \npropagandistically cite. Have you ever cared for human beings outside
      \nyour Zionist Tribe? You can spare your Zionist crocodile tears on DV.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    17. \n

      keith harmon snow<\/a><\/cite> said on March 7th, 2009 at 5:21pm #<\/a><\/p>\n

      Hello <\/p>\n

      Gideon \u2014 you cite as \u201csources\u201d GI-NET and UNAMID. <\/p>\n

      Before you peddle someone else\u2019s information, as you are, have you
      \never asked your self who GI-NET actually is? Check it out \u2014 look at
      \ntheir boards f directors etc. Look where their funding comes from.<\/p>\n

      It seems that you think you are enraged or outraged about people
      \nbeing killed in Sudan and so you are beating the drumbeat DO SOMETHING
      \nDO SOMETHING STOP GENOCIDE STOP GENOCIDE.<\/p>\n

      Do you know what Henry David Thoreau said, in circa 1857 (see his LETTERS TO A SPIRITUAL SEEKER)?<\/p>\n

      DONT READ THE NEWSPAPERS.<\/p>\n

      Kindly read the article that was provided as a solitary footnote.<\/p>\n

      Here\u2019s three other very good books I recommend you dont waste any time in reading:
      \nTHE WHITENESS OF POWER (Goudge)
      \nRACE AND EPISTEMOLOGIES OF IGNORANCE (Sullivan and Tuana)
      \nTHE ROAD TO HELL (Maren)<\/p>\n

      You asked what else happened in JANUARY? I recommend you read this one:
      \n      http:\/\/www.dissidentvoice.org\/2009\/01\/ben-affleck-rwanda-and-corporate-sustained-catastrophe\/<\/a><\/p>\n

      And if you sincerely care about Africa and African people, then
      \nplease educate your self about your position vis-a-vis imperialism and
      \nwhite supremacy, and meanwhile I can point you to where to make a
      \ndirect and immediate impact to help someone. Sending money to CARE or
      \nUNICEF and beating the drums of outrage are part of the problem.<\/p>\n

      Blessings
      \nkeith<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    18. \n

      ron<\/cite> said on March 8th, 2009 at 12:07pm #<\/a><\/p>\n

      informative piece, thanks<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    19. \n

      RH2<\/cite> said on March 8th, 2009 at 1:57pm #<\/a><\/p>\n

      keith,<\/p>\n

      You certainly know, the drumbeating is not new here. The Bush
      \nadministration was very interested in imposing a \u201cno fly zone\u201d over
      \nDarfur to be backed by aerial strikes, naval Walls (blockade) and
      \nstarving the Sudan, one of the poorest African countries, by imposing
      \nmore sanctions. Tony Blair was of course on the scene and was also
      \n\u201cready for action\u201d. Both men were deeply \u201cconcerned\u201d about massacres
      \nmanaged for the purpose of \u2018divide and rule\u2019.<\/p>\n

      Susan Rice, under B. Clinton a member of the National Security
      \nCouncil as assistant secretary of state for African Affairs declared in
      \n2006, \u201cHistory demonstrates that there is one language Khartoum
      \nunderstands: the credible threat or use of force. After swift
      \ndiplomatic consultations, the United States should press for a UN
      \nresolution that issues Sudan an ultimatum: accept unconditional
      \ndeployment of the UN force within one week or face military
      \nconsequences.\u201d<\/p>\n

      As you know, Susan Rice is the representative of Obama at the UN.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    20. \n

      Nkunda<\/cite> said on March 24th, 2009 at 11:09am #<\/a><\/p>\n

      An
      \nexcellent and breath taking exposition of the conflicts in Africa. I
      \nhope the readers are taking note. Africa was way so much better before
      \nthe imperialists first set foot. Now, we must suffer the consequences
      \nof a harsh and cruel society where no one speaks the truth, no one does
      \nright. Keith is probably among the few who are still passionate for
      \nfairness, justice, peace and unity.
      \nMr. Keith, I have been reading through your works and watching the
      \ninterview. As a Rwandan citizen, having survived the genocide, I have
      \nnever been drowned in cynicism and bitterness. I find your reportage an
      \nawakening for inner optimism. Peace to you!!!<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    21. \n

      keith harmon snow<\/a><\/cite> said on March 25th, 2009 at 8:18am #<\/a><\/p>\n

      hello<\/p>\n

      I have made an error of ordering above. I wrote:<\/p>\n

      >>>>The SPLA is the de facto backbone of the Sudan
      \nLiberation Army, one of the main so-called \u2018rebel\u2019 factions involved in
      \nDarfur; the SPLA provides military and logistics support to Uganda from
      \nthe Pentagon\u2014<\/p>\n

      Correction: \u2026 the SPLA recieves its military and logistics from the Pentagon through Uganda\u2026<\/p>\n

      keith<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    22. \n

      Shabnam<\/cite> said on March 25th, 2009 at 10:42am #<\/a><\/p>\n

      Involvement
      \nof ISRAEL in Sudan is undeniable. Israel was very much in the southern
      \nSudan and through its fifth column, Charles Jacob who directed a
      \ncampaign of misinformation with a spurious charge (Child slavery)
      \nforced Sudanese government to grant autonomy to southern Sudan where
      \nthe \u2018rebels\u2019 who were trained in Israel and were involved in
      \ndestabilization of southern Sudan have an office in Israel today.
      \nToday, the oil and other natural resources of Southern Sudan is
      \ntransferred to Israel, US, Canada, Italy and other western countries.
      \nAl-Ahram writes about the ROLE ISRAEL played in Sudan and continue to
      \nplay according to Oded Yinon plot \u201cA Strategy for Israel in the 1980s,\u201d
      \nwhere is necessary for erection of \u2018greater Israel\u2019 toward Israel
      \ndomination of the region from Africa to Asia.<\/p>\n

      {Israel\u2019s current involvement in Darfur is particularly suspicious.
      \nDuring a meeting between Tzipi Livni and several African envoys in Tel
      \nAviv, the Israeli foreign minister said that her government wanted to
      \nhelp find a solution to the crisis in Darfur. One would think that
      \nIsrael is perhaps the last country in the world that can mediate a
      \ncrisis in an Arab country, especially one like Sudan that has no ties
      \nwhatsoever with Israel. The only explanation is that Israel wants to
      \ntake sides with the Darfur rebels against the Sudanese government.
      \nReports indicate that the Sudan Liberation Movement has opened an
      \noffice in Tel Aviv. Israel is also said to be arming the rebels,
      \ntraining them in camps in Israel, sending military experts to rebel
      \nzones in Sudan, and disguising Mossad operatives as relief workers.
      \nAbdullah Masar, adviser to the Sudanese president, says Sudan is under
      \nmassive pressure to normalize its relations with Israel. The Darfur
      \nrebellion is being used as leverage to get Sudan to comply with
      \nIsrael\u2019s demands. The Israelis and Americans now have their eyes
      \ntrained on the immense wealth of Sudan and Darfur in particular \u2014 oil,
      \ncopper, iron, lead, etc.
      \nA foothold in Darfur would establish Israel in the south Sahara and
      \nhelp it gain a foothold close to the Red Sea. And it\u2019s not just Darfur.
      \nIsrael is encouraging Sudanese refugees from Sudan\u2019s south and Nubia to
      \nreach its borders via Egypt. Nearly 3,000 people have tried that route
      \nso far, according to Sudanese official figures. Israel wants Western
      \nSudan to secede, for then the rebels may be persuaded to grant it a
      \nmilitary base in their areas \u2014 a development that would endanger Egypt,
      \nLibya, Sudan and the Red Sea. This scenario is not happening in Sudan
      \nalone, but all over Africa\u2019s many turbulent regions.}<\/p>\n

      ISRAEL is the main supplier of weapon to Darfur where is involved in destabilization of Sudan before the coup of 1989.
      \n      http:\/\/www.pr-inside.com\/israeli-revealed-as-owner-of-south-sudan-bound-weapons-ship-r850322.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    23. \n

      Shabnam<\/cite> said on March 27th, 2009 at 5:19am #<\/a><\/p>\n

      Israel
      \nis deeply involved in Sudan to destabilize and partition the country in
      \norder to bring regime change, control the resources and brings the Red
      \nSea under control to control the waterway and have access to water of
      \nthe Red Sea where water is going to be more important than oil in the
      \nnear future in the Middle East and North Africa. This is part of the \u201d
      \ngreater Israel\u201d plan. American people must pay attention to war crimes
      \nactivity of Israel in Sudan in general and Darfur in particular. This
      \nis a zionist war through proxy like the phony \u201cwar on terror.\u201d<\/p>\n

      http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2009\/03\/25\/israel-killed-39-in-attack-on-sudan-convoy\/<\/a><\/p>\n

      {Answering accusations from a Sudanese minister that the US Air
      \nForce had killed 39 people in a January attack in that nation, US
      \nofficials say that in fact it was the Israeli military that launched
      \nthe attack on a convoy of trucks northwest of Port Sudan city.
      \nReportedly, the Israeli planes used a US base in Djibouti to stage the
      \nattacks, as part of the agreement between Israel and the outgoing Bush
      \nAdministration made in mid January. Israeli officials would neither
      \nconfirm nor deny the attacks.}<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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