From: benali@alcor.concordia.ca ( ILYESS B. BDIRA )
Newsgroups: talk.politics.mideast
Subject: keep Sudan out of your school yard fight.
Summary: You know nothing about it.
Date: 3 Sep 92 16:55:21 GMT

anwar+@cs.cmu.edu (Anwar Mohammed) writes:

>>>responsible for the misery there (mostly inflicted on Christians,
>>>who are also being enslaved by the Sudani government).

I am not really interested in the personal attacks that you are
exchanging, but I know about Sudan enough to be offended with this
blatant lie which was not even said by the christian media.

Are you, Mr. Anwar, a reflection of the official Kuwaiti media?
I could predict all your postings because I know  what the official
Saudi and Kuwaiti media is writing, and to me, they have absolutely
NO CREDIBILITY. Any rational person who reads Asharq -Alawsat would 
rank it lower than the national Enquirer in Journalism.
You want examples:
1)Before Saddam invaded Kuwait, he was portraied as another "Salahuddin"
who is fighting the Shia Kuffar. Up until the day he invaded Kuwait, Saddam
was a hero, after that, he became the devil (which he is by the way).
2) The sudanese government was portraied as a pious government, when it was
discovered by the CIA that the coup was made by the wrong people (believe or
not, the CIA initially thought they were their people!), the gulf media
began supporting Garang and inventing all kinds of stories about Sudan.

I know those news(making)papers are paid to do that.. Are you? if not
you are doing an injustice to yourself.
>>>
>Please, I don't support any leader in Sudan.  The fact is
>that Christians in Sudan are being slaughtered wholesale 
>or enslaved by a faux-Islamic government.

The fact is that the christian who are in the territories ruled by
Sudan are in much better shape (economically, safety-wise) and have
more freedom of religion than everybody who is under the murderous
gangs of Garang. If Garang was not defeated, then we would have the
situation we have in Somalia, Ethyopia, Liberia and other sorry places.

The fact is that the economic and political achievements of the
current regime in Sudan have never been equalled by any Arab regime:
-10% official growth in 1991, the highest in the world last year,
-Complete self-sufficiency in food,
-initiation of major economic projects including oil production
and oil refining making the country an oil producing country,
-2 million people were in the capital to demonstrate in favor of
the regime last month to celebrate the third anniversary of the regime.

The fact is that Sudan is doing that despite a boycott that is
secretely imposed by the U.S and its satellites on it militarily
economically and politically.

The fact is that Sudan, if left alone, will become a major power
in Agriculture, something that  scares the U.S which ironically
educated most of its Ph.D's in Horticulture, Agriculture, Agricultural
Engineering and the like. Sudan can feed the whole of Africa within
the next two decades if the investments are there, if not, it still will
provide the money from its other resources if left alone.

The fact is that, if any of your allegations are true, they would be
in the first pages in all western newspapers. But when they hate a regime
and cannot find any substance to attack it with, they resort to all sorts
of rumors in the tabloids and to painting a general negative picture about
it without any detail.

Finally, the fact is that while refugees from other Arab countries are
abundant (a whole community of Shia Kuwaitis live in my neighberhood and
all of them are refugees), most Sudanis are now back home. You know the
nature of a regime from the number of political refugees.

If you know nothing about Sudan, do not talk about it.
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