New Trend Magazine (www.newtrendmag.org)
Sudan: SPLA's GARANG seeking more U.S. support, Rebutted by Islamist
The U.S. is no longer concealing its relationship with the funded
groups being used to undermine and split the biggest African country:
Sudan.
Garang, leader of the armed gang known as SPLA, is visiting Washington,
DC
and was honored at an elaborate program at the Kennedy Center on March
25. He
presented himself as an expert on Africa and a philosopher about the
"south"
in Sudan and even about the Islamic movement.
{In fact Garang is a renegade military colonel whose breakaway group
has been
provided huge funds over the years, plus massive modern weaponry,
reportedly
by the U.S. and Israel.}
During the Kennedy Center program, Garang was taken aback when a
respected
African-American Islamist, Br. Hodari Abdul-Ali spoke from the floor
and
raised the issue of the bogus "slavery in Sudan" story. Br. Ali pointed
out
that the slavery story has been uncovered now to have been a scam to
draw
funds from the African-American communities in America. {Even the
Washington
Post, no friend of Islam, concedes that in many cases, rebels in the
south,
Garang's people, put on a show of "slavery" to get "redemption" money
from
unsuspecting bleeding heart African-Americans.}
Instead of dealing with the issue, Garang tried to fudge it by claiming
that
"abductions" carried out in inter-tribal raiding are the same thing as
slavery. In other words, as often happens, if a tribe raids another and
takes
captives for whom it tries to get ransom, then for Garang, that is
slavery.
The program was informative in one way. It brought out the fact
that
Garang wants the U.S. to intervene (militarily if necessary) to stop
the
Islamic majority (most of Sudan) from keeping the oil resources Sudan
now
has. Thus Garang wants the U.S. to end the only source Sudan now has to
keep
its economy going and to be able to stop the advances of Garang's
heavily
armed gangs: the oil.
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