Saturday, August 28, 2004
 Al-Jazeera / Newsinsider.org 8/23/2004: Bush administration claims it’s on a mission to root out terrorism all over the world, yet it provides the Chadian military with both trainings and armaments to keep groups linked to al-Qaeda active in the Sudan troubled region, Darfur.
Last month, former Chadian ambassador to the United States, Ahmat H. Soubiane, criticized Chad's President Idris Deby, a new member of the Bush administration's so-called 'global war on terrorism'
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In October 2003, with the beginning of pumping of oil from Chad through the new Chad-Cameron pipeline, a project backed by a consortium consisting of Exxon Mobil, Chevron Texaco, Petronas of Malaysia, Halliburton, and the World Bank, Deby adopted the policy of oil cronyism
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Deby has become a favorite partner of the United States through the Pan Sahel Initiative, a U.S.-European Command program to train and equip Sahel countries
As a way to repay his debt, Deby is providing advanced weaponry, to the Darfur rebels who are fighting the Sudanese central government. Chad's military equipment is being provided by the United States under the Pan Sahel Initiative. The Bush administration and its evangelical Christian allies have targeted Khartoum's Islamic government by providing weapons to various factions opposed to it. Like Chad, Sudan is also sitting on top of a treasure of huge oil reserves.
U.S. military support for Deby and his allied Sudanese rebel groups results in another African genocide, similar to those of Rwanda and Congo in death toll.
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To prove the Chadian-U.S. involvement in Sudan's violence, Soubiane raised a very important idea, which is the fact that the mainly Zaghawa rebels in Darfur speak Arabic and French, the main languages of northern Chad and not Arabic and English, as do most Sudanese.
Now we have a thread that connects the Bush administration to allies of al-Qaeda in Chad and Sudan. It was the same with the Taliban and Albanian guerrillas in the Balkans.
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