Michael Yon

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05 March 2009
 
The President of Sudan is behaving like a little Saddam Hussein, who behaved like a little Stalin.  The International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, and so his government responded immediately by holding its own people hostage from aid workers.  It's important to recall that Sudan was a base for al Qaeda long before 9/11, with complicity of the Sudanese government who is believed to have aided in terrorist attacks.

Some "Presidents" simply are criminals who need to be caged.

Khartoum Orders Aid Agencies to Leave Northern Sudan

By Howard Lesser
Washington, DC
05 March 2009   

The fortunes of at least 2.5 million Sudanese may be at added risk due to yesterday's expulsion order by the Khartoum government of major foreign-based aid agencies.   UN spokeswoman Marie Okabe said that between six and ten nongovernmental groups (NGOs), who conduct some of their rescue operations in the western Darfur region, received notice just hours after an arrest warrant was issued by the International Criminal Court against President Omar Hassan al-Bashir.

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