Second, we think that – and this goes beyond the immediate humanitarian situation – ultimately there has to be a political solution here. They have fought in the Nuba Mountains before during the civil war. It never ended. So it – there has to be eventually a political solution. Making the humanitarian gesture now may create an atmosphere for that, but the most important is for the government to recognize they have this responsibility and the world will respond positively if they say yes, we have this responsibility, we’ll bring in agencies that we can trust – World Food Program and UNICEF, and monitor – and have it monitored and do the right thing.
QUESTION: I’m just wondering if you could tell us a little bit about your – the tenor of your conversation with Khartoum these days. I mean, we have another report this morning that aircraft, presumably Sudanese aircraft, have bombed a refugee camp in South Sudan. This seems to be recurring practice. How are you reacting to that, and what’s your message to them? And are they – what are they telling you?
AMBASSADOR LYMAN: Well, we are concerned about this. This is the second bombing of a refugee camp in South Sudan. It violates all the rules regarding refugees. And we have raised that, raised that in the UN Security Council as well as with the government in Khartoum. Their reaction has been mixed on the first incident. I haven’t seen their reaction to this incident yesterday. But they went through a number of explanations on the last one, which – some of which were not credible, et cetera.
This is, again, as we’ve said to the government in Khartoum, an example of why this war is bad for everybody. And bombing South Sudan is only going to aggravate the situation. The Republic of Sudan claims that South Sudan is feeding this rebellion, and if that were stopped, the rebellion would end. That’s just not accurate. Even if there were assistance from the South, that isn’t what’s at the heart of this conflict.
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It is a delicate situation in that region and we already have boots on the ground who have been "hunting down" Kony. What else have they been doing? We certainly know that they have been training the locals and developing strategies as they lay in wait for the next big call from Obama.
This is the course that Obama has planned for our military.
Now there are new threats of Jihad based on our pending actions in Sudan. They see us as occupiers.
Sources are reporting that Americans should expect to be in the bull’s-eye of jihad, once again, after Islamist leaders and terrorist groups have been quoted saying they are likely to oppose any foreign forces intervening in Sudan, according to a report by Ryan Mauro in Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.
And Obama administration officials have confirmed to press outlets the U.S. is planning a humanitarian intervention in the Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile provinces within weeks.
Islamist leaders repeatedly have accused the West of trying to divide Sudan in order to weaken the Muslim world.
Sheikh Yousef al-Qaradawi, a leading Muslim Brotherhood cleric, also released a fatwa ordering Muslims to vote against independence for South Sudan, which became a new country on July 9.
He accused the West of “seeking [the] separation and partition” of the Muslim world.
The Shariah Association of Scholars and Preachers in Sudan said, “Zionist Western” enemies were trying to conquer the Islamic world and that “it is unlawful to cede any part of Sudan’s land, which belongs to the whole ummah [Muslim world].”
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Interesting point to note that the Muslim Brotherhood now holds the majority of power in Egyptian Parliament and we opened the door for that.
I don't like how this is developing....
A little more on the R2P group and the International Crisis Group that now seems to be calling the shots around the world.
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