Al Sharpton discovers the Sudan
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Wednesday, May 16, 2001
By Anthony C. LoBaido© 2001 WorldNetDaily.com
NEW YORK -- What do Saddam Hussein, Al Sharpton, oil and Coca Cola have in common? They’re all heavily armed in the ongoing genocidal killing fields of Sudan, which pit Muslim vs. Christian on a Medieval scale. This unholy trinity may ironically provide the impetus for America and the West to finally step in and aid the desperate black African South Sudanese Christians.
Rev. Sharpton has now stated that he will bring pressure on the Sudanese government for their willingness to permit human slavery. If he is serious, Sharpton will have to steamroll over Coca Cola, Royal Dutch Shell, China National Petroleum, Total FINA Elf, Saddam’s military-industrial complex and the Nation of Islam.
If Saddam is to be confronted on his involvement in the Sudan, America will have to face up to the fact that we killed 500,000 Iraqi children under the age of five over the past decade because of bombings and sanctions against Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction. Only now to admit that Saddam moved those weapons -- set up entire factories in Algeria, Sudan and Libya. What an embarrassment for the State Department and the Pentagon.
The State Department may also have to explain why it has done nothing while Christians have been killed and imprisoned in China, North Korea, Laos, Burma, Cambodia, Vietnam, the Middle East, Sudan, South Lebanon, Indonesia and burned to death in India.
Coca Cola will be saddened when Americans learn that the sorghum used to sweeten Coke is tainted with the blood of the saints in the Sudan.
"What’s happening is these companies are paying Sudan to exterminate people who might interfere with these companies' ability to extract oil" says Frank Gaffney, of the conservative Center for Security Policy in Washington, D.C.
"Western companies, publicly traded companies are engaged in this kind of stuff. It’s absolutely scandalous."
Famine, scortched earth policies, torture in "ghost houses," human slavery, biochemical war (waged by the Iraqis), forced conversion to Islam and even crucifictions have been a stable of the Arab jihad vs. the South Sudanese Christians.
Almost 2 million black South Sudanese Christians have been killed since Bill Clinton came to power in 1993. Near the end of his presidency, Clinton stood on the border of Uganda and Sudan, apologized for Western slavery 400 years ago, but never even mentioned one word about the genocide in Sudan.
Clinton went on to block relief aid to the Sudan passed by Congress. Former Secretary of State Madeline Albright said the "human rights situation in Sudan is not marketable to the American people."
A White House spokesman speaking under condition of anonymity told WorldNetDaily that the Bush Administration, has "our policy [on Sudan] under review at this time." Last week a House subcommittee met to discuss stricter sanctions against the Arab government in Khartoum -- which is still angry at America for blowing up their aspirin factory during one of Clinton’s errant cowboy adventures. Elliott Abrams, a former Reagan administration honcho told Congress that he wants to cut off the legs of the Western oil companies working in Sudan. Abrams wants to prohibit these companies from participating in U.S. capital markets.
For his part, Sharpton said that Bush now has a chance to make inroads with African American voters vis-a-vis the Sudan. "I’ve been anti-Bush," Sharpton said recently. "But he [Bush] has an opportunity to show that I was wrong."
Sharpton said that he won’t be bought off on this issue with donations from corporations, as has been the case with his pal Jesse Jackson.
"I don’t believe you can be Moses leading the Exodus if Pharaoh is paying for the chariot," Sharpton added.
In this decades-old war, the animist and Christian South Sudanese People’s Liberation Army is fighting the Arab Islamic government to the North. South Sudan and Nubia have stood as a barrier to Arab Islamic encroachment into black Africa for many centuries. In fact, the Sudan is mentioned in the Old Testament prominently as a nation where the people would "raise their hands" and praise God.
Meanwhile, as reported by WorldNetDaily, China has ferried in thousands of "workers" to Sudan’s oil fields -- not too far from the strategic Suez. The Chinese involvement has helped the Arab government to up their production of oil to 200,000 barrels per day. This largess has fueled the military machine the Arabs are using to slaughter the black Christians.
Also as reported by WorldNetDaily, Saddam Hussein has moved nuclear components and set up biological weapons factories in the region. Saddam’s elite units are fighting the Arab war in the Sudan both on the ground and in the air. (See "Saddam in Sudan, Nuclear and Biologicals in Algeria, Libya.")
"Where is the West in places like Sudan and Rwanda? When Christians are slaughtered, the U.N. does nothing. The French Foreign Legion does nothing. The Tutsis, South Sudanese, Cambodians -- they all suffered genocide while the West did nothing -- France in particular," says Carina Hildegard Gundersen, a Danish Red Cross Worker who has worked in all of the aforementioned countries.
"A few years back there was a road rally in Chad which was airlifted by the French military when the race was threatened by Islamic militants. We prize a car race over the genocide of Christians. Again, where is France and Germany in Rwanda? Rwanda was a German colony. These are the countries of Joan of Arc and Luther. It shows how much things have changed in post-Christian Europe."
The Islamic government of Khartoum shot down a Red Cross plane last week.
On May 10, 2001, Reuters News Service reported that Sudan’s Islamist government has accused rebels of killing a Red Cross pilot on an aid mission in the south, the independent al-Ayam daily reported on Thursday.
The Danish pilot was killed when his plane came under fire over southern Sudan on Wednesday. The Red Cross said a blast rocked the plane after it descended to counter a cabin pressure problem on a routine flight from northern Kenya to a government-held town in southern Sudan encircled by rebels. "The area where the incident took place lies under the control of the rebel movement and we do not have troops in the area," al-Ayam quoted armed forces spokesman Lieutenant General Mohamed Bashir Suleiman as saying.
The co-pilot died almost instantly from a severe head injury. The other pilot managed to fly the plane back to Kenya.
Gundersen said that the Danish Red Cross and Danish Intelligence know that the plane was shot down by the Islamic government.
"As I have told you in the past, Saddam has spies inside the Danish Red Cross. He hunts down Kurdish defectors inside Denmark. He has spies on the Danish Refugee Council -- mainly translators. Saddam knows everything that is going on inside the Red Cross. And, as you well know, Saddam’s military machine is heavily involved in Sudan. You don’t have to be a genius to figure this one out," Gunderson told WorldNetDaily.
The Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) said the attack happened just north of the government-held town of Torit, 200 kms (120 miles) west of the Kenyan town of Lokichokio.
An SPLA spokesman said only government forces had the kind of anti-aircraft gun or similar weapon needed to damage the plane, which was flying at around 8,000 feet.
Suleiman said the plane had been hit by three bullets from light arms, rather than anti-aircraft weapons, which showed that a single gunman was responsible. He said such an attack did not bear the hallmarks of army activity.
Sulaf al-Din Saleh, Sudan’s government-appointed aid commissioner, told al-Rai al-Aam Daily that the state was investigating the incident, but said the armed forces were not involved.
Sudanese President Omar Bashir is said to be employing Iraqi military planes and pilots in the civil war in the south. The SPLA has said that the Bashir regime has acquired six Iraqi transport jets and pilots for sorties against rebels in southern and eastern Sudan. The SPLA has identified the planes as the Soviet-built Antonov.
In a statement, the SPLA said the pilot of the plane that crashed last week in southeastern Sudan was an Iraqi national. The regime in Khartoum has refused to identify the pilot in the crash that killed 14 senior Sudanese officers, including the deputy defense minister.
Bashir obtained Iraqi planes and pilots at the end of last year, the SPLA said. This, months after the regime dismissed up to 100 Sudanese officers, including pilots in a purge of the military. Western diplomatic sources said Sudan has used numerous mercenaries to fight the regime's war against the rebels in the oil-rich regions in the east and south. They said these include Chinese trainers who have helped organize pro-government militias in the areas.
Enter Al Sharpton.
It only took eight years, but well-known New York race-agitator Al Sharpton has finally discovered the genocide in the Sudan. Only a few weeks ago Sharpton went to the Sudan. His close ally Louis Farrakhan has repeatedly denied that there is any human slavery going on in the Sudan.
Sudan gained independence from Great Britain in 1956 -- as is the case with most post-European colonies in Africa, anarchy ensued. Military dictatorships have marked the governments which followed the British. In 1989, Civilian rule was crushed by Sudan’s current president Lt. General Umar Hasan Ahmad al-Bashir.
Today, because of the Arab jihad, this nation of 29 million is in chaos which Gundersen says, "Rivals anything you could pull out of the Book of Revelation."
The Arab jihad started from the Upper Nile and now has reached the Bahr El Ghazal Equatorial region. For many years Arabs and Christians lived in peace. This is not uncommon as for a time this phenomenon existed in places like Israel and Lebanon. In Sudan, the war heated up when back in 1983, the Arab government instituted strict Sharia Islamic law. Under Islamic law it is not wrong or immoral to enslave infidels and Christians, nor is it wrong to wage war on Christian separatists. Some Western groups like Christian Solidarity Worldwide have gone to the Sudan to buy back slaves. Some have questioned this practice as only encouraging the Arab slave trade. Others counter it is vital to do so for the sake of the young South Sudanese children.
Soon after the enactment of Sharia law, a mad scramble began for Sudan’s natural resources -- namely sorghum to make chewing gum and soda, as well as oil. Then came the involvement of Iraq and now Communist China.
Is there hope for the Sudan? Gundersen thinks so.
"Imagine if all the sports players in America -- baseball, football, basketball and boxing -- all wrote 'Free Sudan' on their helmets and shoes and uniforms. That message would reach millions. Its power would be unstoppable. Let’s all pray that this happens."
Anthony C. LoBaido is an international correspondent for WorldNetDaily.