[wvns] American Diplomat Shot as Bush Signs Sudan Divestment Bill
American Diplomat Shot and Killed In Sudan
Jan 01, 2008
INO.com Headlines
An American diplomat who was shot while riding in a car in Sudan on
Tuesday, died of the injuries caused by the attack. The diplomat, who
was shot five times in the hand, shoulder and belly, had undergone
surgery and was in stable condition. The incident took place a day
after a joint African-United Nations force took over peacekeeping
duties in Sudan's violence-torn Darfur region.
The Sudanese Foreign Ministry identified the wounded person as a
humanitarian aid.
Walter Braunohler, the public affairs officer at the U.S. Embassy in
Khartoum said the Embassy is working closely with local authorities to
investigate the incident.
For comments and feedback: contact editorial@rttnews.com
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"As planned, the peacekeeping force would have been
the largest such effort in the world, costing about $2
billion in its first year and drawing on military and
police forces from the African Union and the United
Nations."
Bush Signs Bill Allowing Sudan Divestment
(qualifies it with signing statement)
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
January 1, 2008
CRAWFORD, Tex. — President Bush signed legislation on
Monday allowing state and local governments to cut
investment ties with companies doing business in
Sudan, even as he expressed concerns that the bill
could interfere with his right to set foreign policy.
The measure, called the Sudan Accountability and
Divestment Act, is aimed at pressuring Sudan to end
the violence in the Darfur region, where 200,000
people have been killed and more than two million
driven from their homes in a four-year conflict that
Mr. Bush has termed a genocide.
The bill, which passed both houses of Congress
unanimously, makes it easier for mutual funds and
private pension fund managers to sell their
investments and allows states to prohibit debt
financing for companies that do business in Sudan. It
also requires companies seeking contracts with the
federal government to certify that they are not doing
business in Sudan.
"I share the deep concern of the Congress over the
continued violence in Darfur perpetrated by the
government of Sudan and rebel groups," Mr. Bush said
in a statement issued from his ranch here, where he
planned to celebrate the new year with his wife,
Laura, and some friends.
But the administration has expressed reservations
about the bill, and Mr. Bush's signature was
accompanied by a proviso known as a signing statement,
in which he said he was reserving the authority to
overrule state and local divestment decisions if they
conflicted with foreign policy. The statement said the
measure "risks being interpreted as insulating" state
and local divestment actions from federal oversight.
Mr. Bush has long sought an effective way to press
Sudan to end the violence in Darfur, and he has been
under intense pressure from human rights advocates to
do more. The administration imposed stiff economic
sanctions on the Sudanese government at the end of
May, trying to force it to accept a United Nations-led
peacekeeping force.
On Monday, formal authority was transferred from the
current African Union peacekeeping force to a joint
United Nations-African Union mission. But advocates
complained that the deployment was delayed for months
because of bureaucratic foot-dragging by the Sudanese
government.
The peacekeeping force will be staffed far below the
levels set by the United Nations Security Council when
it voted unanimously in July to deploy 26,000 troops
to try to stop the violence in Darfur.
As planned, the peacekeeping force would have been the
largest such effort in the world, costing about $2
billion in its first year and drawing on military and
police forces from the African Union and the United
Nations.
Instead, after months of wrangling, the force that
made its debut on Monday had 9,000 troops, United
Nations officials said. Experts worry that it may
never get to the level where it will make any
difference in the region's troubles.
"What we are seeing and hearing is a reprisal of their
same stall-and-delay tactics," said Allyn
Brooks-LaSure, a spokesman for the Save Darfur
Coalition.
The coalition, an umbrella group of more than 170
organizations, has been waging a "Divest in Darfur"
campaign aimed at big investment companies like
Fidelity and Vanguard, highlighted by the question "Is
your mutual fund funding genocide?" After a State
Department official testified that the divestment bill
might not be necessary, the coalition put together a
letter-writing campaign urging Mr. Bush to sign it.
"The Congress passed this measure unanimously in both
chambers, and I think that sent a strong message to
the White House," Mr. Brooks-LaSure said. "We believe
they were right to heed that message."
Maria Newman contributed reporting.
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BACKGROUND INFO
Here are a few updates on the US Zionist war on Sudan
with a few new articles and sources linked below.
PAE Lockheed, the US based PMC (private military
contractor) was given a sole source, rule breaking,
executive, secret contract to build and maintain 60
military bases ( and ?) 63 police bases in Darfur for
the largest deployment of UN troops in the world
today.
The value of the contract is about 300 million for a
year with some of the equipment and facilities being
gifted from the current collapsing US, Canadian, EU
funded 6,000 man AU occupation deployment. (1)
" Save Darfur " is lobbying Washington to pony up 724
million for the war effort.
I think about 2/3 of PAE/Lockheed is controlled by the
Carlyle group which is a massive private equity owned
military industrial conglomerate who's co founder
David Rubenstein is a funder of 'save darfur' spokes
people and their pro war activitism. (2)
The US is busy rounding up troop commitments, funding,
military and attack helicopters ( French ? ) to build
and man the bases.
French troops are deploying to the Chad -Sudan boarder
and have come under protest due to the exposed plot by
Zoe's Ark / Save Darfur France to kidnap and export
10,000 local children. (3)
Desmond Tutu, Jimmy Carter, Kofi Annan, Muhammad Yunus
and Nelson Mandela are working as neo liberal arm
twisters for Billionaire UK tycoon Branson. Getting UN
troops in to Sudan will lower and ensure Branson's
Virgin Cola and Virgin Airline material costs (Gum
Arabic, oil) at the expense of African lives.
"Save Darfur" is highly funded by a rouges gallery of
oligarch's, jewish zionist billionaires, evangelical
crusaders and multinational corporations such as
Phizer. Darfur is laden with oil, uranium, thorium,
copper, and food, pharmaceutical and cosmetic grade
gum Arabic.
US Zionists have expanded their war on China and war
on China's 'weapons of mass production' with covert,
regime overthrow, economic and propaganda warfare
against Sudan, Burma, Pakistan and the Beijing
Olympics. (4)
The US is pushing legislation and propaganda to
justify war to stop sexual violence against women.
S. 2279 full bill
http://www.womensedge.org/images/ivawafullbill.pdf
The accusation 'Genocide' is in part to trigger a
mandatory required military response from the UN
members under chapter VIII . After the destruction of
Yugoslavia and the blatant imperialism in Iraq and of
" save darfur" they need a more sensational "critical
incident" to justify troop deployments to areas of
opposition.
The Holocaust Memorial Day Trust(UK) will use its
national day on 27 January to demand tougher action to
stop atrocities in Sudan.
President Bush's $724 million emergency funding
request for Darfur peacekeeping, the Save Darfur
Coalition today called on the Congress to work with
the administration to appropriate these funds before
the end of the year while protecting other
Darfur-related measures in upcoming spending bills.
http://www.ucdailynews.com/politics/10838906.html
"...Sudan is going to become Somalia on a giant
scale."
"Save Darfur senior director Amjad Atallah said the
Security Council should also discuss a foundering
peace agreement that ended a two-decade-long
north-south civil war in 2005.
Atallah said the Security Council should discuss
Darfur and the southern civil war at the same time
because if the southern agreement collapsed and civil
war resumed Sudan is going to become Somalia on a
giant scale"
Activists call for emergency U.N. meeting on Darfur
http://africa.reuters.com/world/news/usnN05273068.html
"The reader is left wanting to know more about the
politics behind the decision... Colin Powell's
characterization of the situation in Darfur as
genocide was also the first time a government had
accused another government of an ongoing genocide, as
well as the first time a government had invoked
chapter 8 of the Genocide Convention, calling on the
Security Council to address the situation. "
http://allafrica.com/stories/200711220001.html
"Early CIA Involvement in Darfur Has Gone Unreported"
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/34473.html
Many more Sudan links at 'Stop Attacking Sudan'.....
Boston Anti Zionist Action
http://www.bazabaza.blogspot.com
Thank you.
(1)
UN headquarters committee minutes of sole source
contract to PAE
http://www.innercitypress.com/hcc083107.pdf
NATO Staff Designed Lockheed's No-Bid UN Contract,
http://www.innercitypress.com/natolockheed110607.html
Lockheed's No-Bid UN Contract,
http://www.innercitypress.com/hcclockheed110207.html
No-Bid Darfur Contracts a "Troubling Pattern," PAE in
Congo
http://www.innercitypress.com/sachlockheed111207.html
For Darfur, Lockheed Martin Gets UN Sole Source
Contract
http://www.innercitypress.com/lockheed101507.html
UN Now Will Not Disclose Its No-Bid Lockheed Contract,
http://www.innercitypress.com/nobidlockheed101707.html
(2)
http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/press/press%20releases/2004/rubenstein_gift_092204.htm
http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2007/noviembre/lun12/zeiler.html
http://www.miamiair.com/default.asp
(3)
http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSL04326758
(4)
http://bazabaza.blogspot.com/2007/10/cuba-opposed-foreign-interference-in.html
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