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Re: Blackwater's Sudan operations ignored U.S. sanctions (Re: مصعب عبدالله محمود)
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المصدر http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/06/27/553602/blackwater-ignored-sanctions.html...story_link=email_msg
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History of conflict Sudan, Africa's largest country in land area, was riven by a 22-year civil war between the mostly Muslim north and the Christian and animist south that killed an estimated 2 million people and forced millions more to flee. The International Criminal Court last year charged Sudan's president, Omar al-Bashir, with war crimes stemming from the conflict in Sudan's Darfur region, crimes the U.S. has called genocide.
Sudan was added to the State Department's list of state sponsors of terrorism in the 1990s, in part because it harbored Osama bin Laden for a time. President Bill Clinton imposed comprehensive sanctions on the country in 1997 in an attempt to weaken the country's Islamic dictatorship.
The 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement, brokered with U.S. help, ended the north-south war. However, there's concern that civil war could erupt again if the south chooses to secede in a referendum scheduled for January. Both sides are rapidly arming themselves, Sudan specialists say |
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