Eclipsed from the headlines by the ongoing carnage, there is an active
civil resistance in Iraq that opposes the occupation, the torture regime
it protects, and the jihadi and Ba'athist 'resistance' alike.
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Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir voiced definace June 19 before the threat of more sanctions against his regime over the Darfur genocide. "Let the new madmen or the new conservatives pick whatever they want as sanctions, we will bow only before God," Bashir said in a speech at the Giad Group's industrial site, some 50 kilometers south of Khartoum.
The comments come a day after Assistant Secretary of State Jendai Frazer, the top US diplomat for Africa, said the threat of more sanctions against Sudan would only be lifted when Khartoum makes good on its pledge to allow UN peacekeepers into Darfur. "The US threat of sanctions is not based on promises from President Beshir but on action," she told reporters in Pretoria. "Until there is action in respect of Darfur, further sanctions remain an option.
In his speech, Bashir said that "sanctions and attempts at embargo have only been positive for Sudan." Referring to the withdrawal of Western oil companies from the country 20 years ago during the war with rebels in the south, he said: "That allowed us to turn to the East, and the East has never let us down"—an obvious reference to Chinese oil interests.
He also said the refusal of Western countries to supply the Sudanese military had allowed his country to develop its own arms industry. "The Yarmuk complex satisfies all our conventional arms needs, and we produce our own munitions, from the simple bullet to rockets." (AFP, June 19)
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Bashir scoffs at sanctions
Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir voiced definace June 19 before the threat of more sanctions against his regime over the Darfur genocide. "Let the new madmen or the new conservatives pick whatever they want as sanctions, we will bow only before God," Bashir said in a speech at the Giad Group's industrial site, some 50 kilometers south of Khartoum.
The comments come a day after Assistant Secretary of State Jendai Frazer, the top US diplomat for Africa, said the threat of more sanctions against Sudan would only be lifted when Khartoum makes good on its pledge to allow UN peacekeepers into Darfur. "The US threat of sanctions is not based on promises from President Beshir but on action," she told reporters in Pretoria. "Until there is action in respect of Darfur, further sanctions remain an option.
In his speech, Bashir said that "sanctions and attempts at embargo have only been positive for Sudan." Referring to the withdrawal of Western oil companies from the country 20 years ago during the war with rebels in the south, he said: "That allowed us to turn to the East, and the East has never let us down"—an obvious reference to Chinese oil interests.
He also said the refusal of Western countries to supply the Sudanese military had allowed his country to develop its own arms industry. "The Yarmuk complex satisfies all our conventional arms needs, and we produce our own munitions, from the simple bullet to rockets." (AFP, June 19)