I really don't understand all the different factions, etc, etc, in the conflict and I'm obviously not believing the Zionist-controlled Amerikan MSM account, so what to make of this situation?
The point of the piece and background dawned on me a little more than halfway through the piece.
"We need the international community to give us the capacity to move further and to move faster.... If we have surveillance and tactical helicopters, we will be able to react and respond and prevent attacks on peacekeepers."
CUI BONO, readers?
"General Wesley Clark, who commanded the North Atlantic Treaty Organization bombing campaign in the Kosovo war, recalls in his 2003 book Winning Modern Wars being told by a friend in the Pentagon in November 2001 that the list of states that Rumsfeld and deputy secretary of defense Paul Wolfowitz wanted to take down included Iraq, Iran, Syria, Libya, Sudan and Somalia [and Lebanon]."
That make things a little clearer?
"7 peacekeepers killed in Darfur ambush; Militia attacks UN-AU convoy on desert road" by Stephanie McCrummen, Washington Post | July 10, 2008
Ah, yes, the CIA's favorite newspaper.
NAIROBI, Kenya - Seven peacekeepers were killed and 22 were wounded, seven critically, in a militia ambush on their convoy in Darfur, the largest hit on a struggling, joint UN-African Union force that took charge in January, officials said yesterday.
The conflict in the western Sudanese region has become increasingly complex, with more than a dozen rebel factions, former government militias, tribal militias, and others engaging in a scramble for trucks and weapons. Their targets are mostly humanitarian groups and the nascent peacekeeping mission, which have brought fleets of trucks and supplies to the region.
While banditry now occurs almost daily in Darfur, it has been mostly small in scale - attackers arrive in two or three armed trucks. But Tuesday's attack was an apparently well-organized assault that has shaken the peacekeepers and aid workers who had been dreading precisely this scenario.
"It's not being taken as just another attack," said one aid worker, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to speak on the record. "This was much bigger than anything that's happened before. People are quite worried about what will happen next."
It was unclear which militia group staged Tuesday's attack, which took place as the peacekeepers, known by their acronym UNAMID, were returning from a mission to investigate an alleged assault on a rebel faction in north Darfur.
The convoy was about 60 miles from their base, in an area where control is divided between a rebel faction and Arab militias. The rebels are from the Minni Minnawi faction of the Sudan Liberation Army, which signed a failed peace deal with the government in 2006.
"UNAMID is obviously outraged at the attack, which it considers a flagrant disregard of the will of the international community and the people of Darfur to have a degree of peace and security established," Zorba said.
The peacekeeping force took over from a beleaguered African Union force Dec. 31, but little has changed except the command structure. Most of the 8,000 or so soldiers are from the old mission and simply painted their green helmets United Nations blue. So far, not a single new battalion of troops has arrived.
The force has been debilitated by a lack of trucks, helicopters, and other equipment that might have been able to prevent Tuesday's attack, Zorba said.
"We need the international community to give us the capacity to move further and to move faster," she said. "If we have surveillance and tactical helicopters, we will be able to react and respond and prevent attacks on peacekeepers."
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said in a statement that he condemned "in the strongest possible terms this unacceptable act of extreme violence against AU-UN peacekeepers in Darfur." He called on the Sudanese government "to do its utmost to ensure that the perpetrators are swiftly identified and brought to justice."
Actress Mia Farrow, a leading activist for peace in Darfur, laid some of the blame for the attack on the international community for allowing the Sudanese government to block full deployment of UN peacekeepers in Darfur.
"The international community is failing to support the peacekeeping mission in Darfur and as a result we are watching it fail," she said. "The US, the UN, and all the nations of the world are once again allowing the Khartoum regime to dictate the conditions under which Darfur's victims can be protected."
Seriously, why is Mia Farrow being quoted for a NEWS ARTICLE?
And WhereTF are you on ISRAEL, my dear?
And WHAT WOULD YOU HAVE, Mia?
The GLOBAL GOVERNMENT at the U.N. INVADE?!
As we have seen with Iraq (and Afghanistan), that never helps anyone -- except neo-con cabalists and their war-contractor friends.
Last month, four UN and AU staffers were assaulted and held at gunpoint in Darfur. One of the staffers was stripped of his belongings, kidnapped briefly, and then released by Arab militiamen on horseback, according to a statement from the joint force.
In May, an Ugandan officer was found fatally shot in a vehicle operated by the UNAMID force in North Darfur - the first UN-AU peacekeeper killed since the mission deployed in January. UNAMID had described the killing as "an act of cold-blooded murder."
UN peacekeeping chief Jean-Marie Guehenno has said that there was an increase in violence in Darfur, which spread recently to the capital, Khartoum, and that it could escalate further.
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I wouldn't be a bit surprised if it did.
And what, NO MUGABE TODAY?
Or SOMALIA?
