In his recently released video tape, Osama bin Laden wants his followers to impose more murder and mayhem in Sudan, as if there wasn't enough there already with the government sanctioned genocide in the Darfur.
Osama bin Laden issued ominous new threats in an audiotape broadcast Sunday, saying the West was at war with Islam and calling on his followers to go to Sudan to fight a proposed U.N. force....
"I call on mujahedeen and their supporters, especially in Sudan and the Arab peninsula, to prepare for long war again the crusader plunderers in Western Sudan. Our goal is not defending the Khartoum government but to defend Islam, its land and its people," bin Laden purportedly said.
"I urge holy warriors to be acquainted with the land and the tribes in Darfur."
This is a situation that the US has dubbed "genocide" while the UN will only go so far as to call it a "grave humanitarian crisis.
The US has supported efforts for more severe action against the Sudanese government in the UN but has been blocked by Russia and China.
The two powers, joined by Qatar, used their position on a UN sanctions committee to block the imposition of a UN travel ban and asset freeze on four unnamed Sudanese, including one government official, proposed by Britain.
The United States, which backed the British initiative, reacted angrily by threatening to call a public vote of the 15-nation Security Council that would force Russia and China into making a formal veto.
And, of course, the Arab League, of which Sudan is a member, won't take action against Sudan: the victims are all black and Christian after all
Interestingly, these two countries, China and Russia, are also opposing sanctions against Iran as well and as a result, sanctions against both Sudan and Iran will never come about through the UN.
But when has the UN ever been effective at anything?
You would think that China and Russia are on the same side as the terrorists, but of course, it's more complicated than that. China has oil needs and has huge oil interests in Sudan and in Iran.
Russia is just our enemy. Still.
But what difference does it make if they are Osama's allies or not
If they act as if they are?
