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Sudan warns the West of 'another Iraq'
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John Henry
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Aug 04, 2004 17:46 PDT
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SUDAN WARNS THE WEST OF 'ANOTHER IRAQ'
5 Aug 2004
MORE than 100,000 Sudanese marched on the United Nations headquarters in
the capital Khartoum yesterday in a state-organised protest against Western
intervention to end the crisis in Darfur.
Demonstrators warned that Sudan could become a battlefield comparable to
Afghanistan or Iraq if foreign military forces entered the African country
to try to end the 17-month Darfur conflict.
"Targeting Sudan means you will fall into a third swamp, after Afghanistan
and Iraq," said Mohammed Ali Abdullah, a senior member of the ruling party.
"There are lions here in Sudan who would like to confront the Americans."
While no Western government has threatened to invade Sudan, such
intervention has been discussed since it became clear that the Khartoum
government was failing to curb the perpetrators of most of the violence in
Darfur.
The UN Security Council last week passed a resolution giving Sudan 30 days
to stop Arab militia violence in Darfur or face economic and diplomatic
penalties.
The protesters, many chanting "No to America and its followers", delivered
a memorandum to the UN envoy's office in Khartoum demanding that the
secretary general, Kofi Annan, retract his "misleading" remarks about the
Darfur situation, or resign.
(c) 2004 Scotsman.com
http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=896202004
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SUDAN WARNS THE WEST OF 'ANOTHER IRAQ' <br><br>
<i>5 Aug 2004<br><br>
</i>MORE than 100,000 Sudanese marched on the United Nations headquarters
in the capital Khartoum yesterday in a state-organised protest against
Western intervention to end the crisis in Darfur. <br><br>
Demonstrators warned that Sudan could become a battlefield comparable to
Afghanistan or Iraq if foreign military forces entered the African
country to try to end the 17-month Darfur conflict. <br><br>
"Targeting Sudan means you will fall into a third swamp, after
Afghanistan and Iraq," said Mohammed Ali Abdullah, a senior member
of the ruling party. <br><br>
"There are lions here in Sudan who would like to confront the
Americans." <br><br>
While no Western government has threatened to invade Sudan, such
intervention has been discussed since it became clear that the Khartoum
government was failing to curb the perpetrators of most of the violence
in Darfur. <br><br>
The UN Security Council last week passed a resolution giving Sudan 30
days to stop Arab militia violence in Darfur or face economic and
diplomatic penalties. <br><br>
The protesters, many chanting "No to America and its
followers", delivered a memorandum to the UN envoy’s office in
Khartoum demanding that the secretary general, Kofi Annan, retract his
"misleading" remarks about the Darfur situation, or
resign.<br><br>
(c) 2004 Scotsman.com<br><br>
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