Now I get it! We Can't See Darfur Genocide Due To Oil

Sudan becomes US ally in 'war on terror'

Suzanne Goldenberg in Washington
Saturday April 30, 2005
The Guardian

Sudan's Islamist regime, once shunned by Washington for providing a haven for Osama bin Laden as well as for human rights abuses during decades of civil war, has become an ally in the Bush administration's "war on terror".
Only months after the US accused Khartoum of carrying out genocide in Darfur, Sudan has become a crucial intelligence asset to the CIA.

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When CIA Airlines isn't busy ferrying U.S. detainees to torture-friendly foreign countries, it's apparently bringing men like Sudanese Maj. Gen. Salah Abdallah Gosh - who played a "key role" in actually directing the massacres in Darfur, according to U.S. officials - to America.

Mass killings? Coordinated rape campaigns? That hasn't stopped the Bush administration from buddying up to Gosh, the top intelligence chief in Sudan, according to the Los Angeles Times. Just last week, the CIA brought him to Washington "for secret meetings sealing Khartoum's sensitive and previously veiled partnership with the administration." It's all part of a White House plan to "forge a close intelligence partnership with the Islamic regime that once welcomed Osama bin Laden," offering Sudan increased ties and "normalized" intelligence relations in return for coordination in crackdowns on al-Qaeda militants and other suspected terrorists.

White House officials insist the new ties won't lead to a softening of its already-weak policy toward Sudan,...

From the Sudan Tribune:
OIL FOUND IN SUDAN'S DARFUR

KHARTOUM, Sudan, Apr 16, 2005 (UPI) - Sudan said Saturday initial oil drilling operations in the troubled Darfur region indicate there is abundant oil in the area.
Sudan Energy Minister Awad al-Jaz told reporters in Khartoum an oil field was found in southern Darfur and it is expected to produce 500,000 barrels of oil per day by August.
Most of the country's oil production comes from oil fields in southern Sudan, where a peace treaty was recently signed between the government and rebels.
According to the accord, 50 percent of oil revenues from the south will go to the Sudan People's Liberation Movement, while the other half to Khartoum.
The country started exporting oil in August 1999.