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Sudan: Killing and Drilling for Oil

Henk Ruyssenaars - Former Africa correspondent | 23.10.2006 17:13 | Anti-militarism | Globalisation | Repression | World

The Sudanese president refuses an invasion by 20.000 US/UN troops in oil rich Darfur, charging the UN Security Council resolution is 'a Western plot to occupy his country and plunder the oil fields.' - And there are many dogs of war fighting for the same bone, which Sudan tries to keep for itself.

FPF - October 23d 2006 - Next Friday US 'president' Bush discusses with his NATO stooge and Secr. Gen. Dutchman Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, the US manager's plans to invade with 20.000 so called 'peace keepers' Sudan's oil fields, to secure the resources. The also by the US fomented crisis in Darfur is used as the usual 'UN reason' and cover for the planned US invasion. Officially - because of UN sanctions - US oil firms are not allowed to work in Sudan. But that won't be a problem anymore.

In an expected declaration at the next NATO Summit in Riga, Latvia in November this geopolitical move will after the meeting as a 'press release' be presented and 'justified' in a propaganda form acceptable to the compliant media to brainwash the public, with intelligence and facts being fixed - in UN peacekeeping terms - around the oil firm's policy.

Bush' 'advisers' and NATO develop further US maneuvers in Africa, and especially Sudan, assisted by the multinationals and Bush's manager of the UN, the by him send diplomatic disaster, John 'the bulldozer' Bolton, who'll help to paint the rosy propaganda picture about the 'enormous support' of the NATO Alliance and it's glorious ''humanitarian efforts to promote democracy and freedom in Darfur.''

THE MESSAGE IS: THERE'S A CRISIS AND WE MUST HELP.

DARFUR: VIDEOS OF FAKED RAPES

The fact that the oil firms fight for the growing oil profits and are the origin of the crisis, is hardly ever mentioned. And whether 1 or 2 million people die: they don't care. The only thing that matters is getting the oil before the others do. It's like 'catch-as-catch-can' on a global level, including all the 'black operations' by the secret services. Killing a lot of people and blame the others, or like making videos of faked rapes in Darfur* which then are given for free to all collaborating mainstream media stenographers and major propaganda networks.

SO THE WORLD 'UNDERSTANDS THE NECESSITY' OF SENDING AN INVADING FORCE WITH AN EXTRA TWENTY THOUSAND TROOPS.

Formerly TV station al Jazeera was one of the few reporting on those lies and fakes, but it has changed for the worse since 'new owners' with double nationality took over the station, and want more propaganda for the US/Israeli war machine.

In Sudan the government got fed up with Dutch United Nations special envoy Jan Pronk, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's special representative in Sudan, and declared him 'persona non grata' last Friday. Pronk kept insisting that at least 20.000 US/UN troops are needed, a policy in line with the plans to secure the oil riches under the cover of 'humanitarian help'. Pronk says he wants to help the people; Khartoum says he wants to help the US people, getting the oil. The reality being that the oil belongs to the Sudanese, which have made big deals with foreign firms already, but (openly) NO US oil firms, all of them infamous ''Drillers & Killers'' too.

Supported are Washington's lies for the oil multinationals and their invasion by European Union collaborators, who in the city of Lahti in Finland last Friday* had the Finnish PM Matti Vanhanen declare that: "The U.N. operation is the only viable and realistic option for peacekeeping in Darfur" at a news conference during a one-day summit of European leaders. "We are all very deeply concerned about the situation." - Well, so are the Sudanese concerning the US/UN invasion.

The concern was justified, because Bush's errand boy for the Darfur crisis, Andrew Natsios, last week was not received by Sudan's president, as Bush spokesman Tom Casey confirmed. Even if US Americans (in reciprocity) are not allowed to travel outside a radius of 25 Km of the capital Khartoum, Natsios anyhow got permission to visit Darfur during his one-week visit. But Sudan's president for the whole week refused to talk to him, so Natsios flew to the US rendition colony Egypt, trying to talk some Arab League collaborators into the scheme.

OPERATIONAL DETACHMENTS-ALPHA (A-TEAMS) IN SUDAN: 'TO HELP THE SUDANESE OPPOSITION'

Concerning the oil in Darfur it's the same framing as the military backed oil firms always do. The same Washington tactic as usual: first you create a problem, than you say you must solve it. Send 'peace keepers' or start illegal wars, whatever. Also through satellite spying the oil thieves know where the loot is, and thus CIA Director John Deutch confirmed already in 1996 that "the US government decided to send nearly $20 million of military equipment through the 'front-line' states of Ethiopia, Eritrea and Uganda to help the Sudanese opposition overthrow the Khartoum regime. US officials denied that the military aid for the SPLA and the Sudanese Allied Forces (SAF), described as 'non-lethal' - including radios, uniforms, boots and tents - was targeted at Sudan.

THE PRETEXT: THE PENTAGON AND CIA CONSIDERED SUDAN ''TO BE SECOND ONLY TO IRAN AS A STAGING GROUND FOR INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM.'' - AND WE'VE HEARD THAT LIE MANY TIMES...

CIA Director John Deutch made a 3-day visit to the Ethiopian capital in April 1996, where he noted that funds had been significantly increased for a more activist policy including preemptive strikes against terrorists and their sponsors. Reportedly several Operational Detachments-Alpha (also called A-Teams) of the US army were operating in support of the SPLA." - (end quote) - CIA 'Jackals' below*

The Khartoum regime has often been blamed for many of the CIA's and other secret service 'false flag' operations, giving a reason to further invade Darfur too, but also itself commits atrocities in the fight for it's oil and the billions of growing profit. Khartoum has always denied that it aided the Janjaweed militia, an assertion disputed by the US which cooked up the 'crisis' and wants the oil. In this fight for oil and other resources in Sudan hundred thousands of people have died, and more than two million fled their homes since the crisis in Darfur. Which only by Washington was called a genocide. Nobody else does.

''PROTECT'' NEARLY ALL OIL AND NATURAL GAS RESOURCES IN AFRICA

As I wrote earlier: the US in the past years has enormously expanded it's military presence in Africa. Under the cover of the US neocon made 'War of Terror' the US military - assisting the global banks and their multinationals - has abandoned a lot of military bases in Europe and Asia, and relocated them to 'protect' nearly all oil and natural gas resources in Africa.

With the 'humanitarian cover' of the UN the Chinese have been forced to partly leave the oil rich Darfur region in Sudan, for years their oil base, and now have slowed down in that part of Africa. So called 'Royal' Dutch SHELL already for decades has been 'killing and drilling' for profit - in Africa their main victim is especially oil rich Nigeria - Url.: tinyurl.com/aekkc.

The US 'Robber Barons' have focused on Uganda, Djibouti, Senegal and Sao Tome y Principe, where heavily armed but flexible, small scale 'jumping off points' exist for the oil traffic 'protecting' US 'Rapid Deployment Forces'. The small Sao Tome y Principe archipelago is strategically placed in the oil rich Gulf of Guinea, sub-Saharan Africa's major oil producing area.

Here, the "US military could monitor the movement of oil tankers and protect oil platforms," the american propaganda service and former 'news agency' AP quoted high ranking US military officers.

The US and collaborating navies in the 'Coalition of the Killing' at present surround and control Africa to 'protect' it. This time the pretext is 'the pirates' which have to be kept away from the oil tanker lanes around the African continent.

In Sudan too, many know the 'peacekeeping' pretext and are scared while they wait for the invasion, turning blood into gold.

Knowing it's gonna be their blood, but never their gold.


Henk Ruyssenaars


RELATED:

* 'PRESIDENT' BUSH & NATO STOOGE SECRETARY GENERAL JAAP DE HOOP SCHEFFER - Url.:
 http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/10/20061020.html

* AL JAZEERA - FAKE RAPES VIDEOS - Url.: - Fake rape videos - Url.:  http://tinyurl.com/93d87

* SUDAN AND THE 'WHY' OF GLOBAL RESISTANCE - HOW IT'S DONE BY THE PNAC'S CIA JACKALS & THE WORLD BANK - 'Confessions of an economic 'hit man'. World Bank insider Perkins explains: "Jackals' are C.I.A. - sanctioned people that come in and try to foment a coup or revolution. If it doesn't work, they perform assassinations, or try to." - They steal billions for the World Bank, IMF, USAID, UNDP, AID etc. - It's your life too: Must watch Video Url.: www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8171.htm

* THE US PNAC WARS & NATO’S SECRET ARMIES LINKED TO TERRORISM? - (NATO, the Pentagon, NSA, MI6, the CIA, Mossad, BND, and all other European and global 'intelligence services' are negatively linked to inhuman terror, coups d’état, 'rendition', the PNAC Gulags and torture - HR) - by Daniele Ganser - Url.:  http://globalresearch.ca/articles/GAN412A.html

* CIA A-TEAMS 1996 IN SUDAN STARTING 'CIVIL WAR' - Url.:  http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/para/spla.htm

* UN ENVOY JAN PRONK ACCUSED OF 'WAGING WAR' IN SUDAN - Sapa-AFP - Url.:  http://tinyurl.com/y8mobu

* SUDANESE ARMY DECLARES UN’S PRONK PERSONA NON GRATA - KHARTOUM MONITOR - URL.:  http://www.khartoummonitor.net/

* PUTIN GETS MUGGED IN FINLAND - WHITNEY - Url.:  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15377.htm

* UK/US THEIR COURT JESTER BOB GELDOF AND THE OIL GRAB IN AFRICA - Url.:  http://scotland.indymedia.org/newswire/display/1816/index.php

* SAO TOME Y PRINCIPE - Url.:  http://tinyurl.com/yafkyh

* US "Death Squad Protection Act" - Url.:  http://tinyurl.com/6xdfw 

* US PROPAGANDA: R.I.P. AL JAZEERA - DAVID FROST 'FRONT MAN' AT AL-JAZEERA INTERNATIONAL - Url.:  http://tinyurl.com/y6us8n

*THROW OUT WAR PROPAGANDISTS LIKE THE BBC, FOX, CNN ETC.! - Url.:   http://www.cemab.be/news/2006/07/1632.php

* The Dutch author this far has lived and worked abroad - never in an English speaking country - for more than 4 decades for international media as an independent foreign correspondent, of which 10 years - also during Gulf War I - in Africa, the Arab World and the Middle East. Seeing worldwide that every bullet and every bomb breeds more terrorism!

* FPF-COPYRIGHT NOTICE - In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107 - any copyrighted work in this message is distributed by the Foreign Press Foundation under fair use, without profit or payment, to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the information. Url.:  http://liimirror.warwick.ac.uk/uscode/17/107.html

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