After Abyei Invasion, US Makes Threats!

President Obama is so naive or perhaps I should say stupid to think he could have trusted Omar al-Bashir to cooperate! Sudan's Omar al-Bashir committed GENOCIDE on 400,000 African natives in Darfur who refused to submit to Islam. He committed ETHNIC CLEANSING!

Al-Bashir is already wanted by the International Criminal Court on charges of genocide in Darfur and is banned from traveling to countries that have signed the treaty establishing the court. His country is designated as a state sponsor of terror. [AFP 5/26/11]

President Obama proudly declared a few months back that he was going to REMOVE Sudan as a state sponsor of terrorism and REWARD Sudan with a debt relief of $38 billion. Anyone with a half a brain would know that there is NO NEGOTIATING with a brutal dictator and a radical Islamic one at that!

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Global Post

After Abyei invasion, US makes threats

written by Tristan McConnell

Tuesday May 24, 2011

Special envoy Princeton Lyman said Khartoum's occupation of the disputed border town of Abyei put in jeopardy debt relief and Sudan's removal from terrorist list.

Princeton Lyman, President Obama’s special envoy on Sudan has been speaking about the U.S. position following Khartoum’s occupation of the disputed town of Abyei at the weekend.

In a press briefing in Washington he said the U.S. might withhold its support for debt relief worth $38 billion and reconsider plans to remove Sudan from its list of State Sponsors of Terrorism as a result of the invasion.

“Our ability to move towards normalization [of relations] is going to be complicated,” he said.

“[The northern army] basically invaded Abyei and they have now taken over most of Abyei,” Lyman said.

He also offered a little insight into the parlous nature of north-south relations revealing that presidents Omar al-Bashir and Salva Kiir, “have not been meeting recently and so far have not been in direct touch” about the latest conflagration in Abyei.

Lyman stressed that Abyei must be “negotiated rather than occupied”.

But there was little sign of this on Tuesday. Khartoum’s defence minister Abdulrahim Mohammed Hussein said, “Abyei will remain a northern town until the population decides on their situation by themselves.”

But the UN saying most of the southern population having already fled the town, leaving Abyei almost solely occupied by northern-aligned communities, such comments are clearly disingenuous.