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Gaddafi: Israel, not Sudan, to blame for crisis in Darfur
By Reuters
Tags: israel news, gaddafi, Darfur

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, the current African Union president, on Tuesday accused "foreign forces" including Israel of being behind the Darfur conflict.

Judges from the International Criminal Court are due to announce on March 4 whether they will issue a warrant for the arrest of Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir over allegations that he masterminded genocide in Sudan's Darfur region. UN diplomats have told Reuters the warrant will be issued.

But Gaddafi, addressing a meeting on ways to expand cooperation between the United Nations and African Union, urged the Court to stop its proceedings against Bashir:
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"Why do we have to hold President Bashir or the Sudanese government responsible when the Darfur problem was caused by outside parties, and Tel Aviv [Israel], for example, is behind the Darfur crisis?"

Gaddafi suggested without presenting any evidence that the Israeli military was among those stoking the conflict:

"It is not a secret. We have found evidence proving clearly that foreign forces are behind the Darfur problem and are fanning its fire," Gaddafi said, according to the Libyan state news agency Jana.

"We discovered that some of the main leaders of the Darfur rebels have opened offices in Tel Aviv and hold meetings with the military there to add fuel to the conflict fire."

Mostly non-Arab rebels took up arms against Sudan's government in 2003, accusing it of neglecting the Darfur region. Khartoum mobilized mostly Arab militias to crush the rebellion.

International experts say the fighting has killed 200,000 people and uprooted 2.7 million. Sudan's government denies any genocide, saying that 10,000 have been killed and that Western media exaggerate the conflict.

Gaddafi himself has made a number of attempts to broker peace talks between Darfur rebels and the Sudanese government
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  1.   WOW 21:23  |  Dougie 24/02/09
  2.   WOW- what a fool of a man 21:24  |  Doug 24/02/09
  3.   He`s right 21:30  |  iyke 24/02/09
  4.   1,2,3 Wow 22:27  |  Victor 24/02/09
  5.   could be something in that 22:34  |  maoriboy 24/02/09
  6.   Gaddafi 22:40  |  Maor 24/02/09
  7.   Isn`t Libya the Chair of the "Durban II" conference? 22:43  |  Matt C 24/02/09
  8.   He is 100% correct 22:44  |  Sammy from Jordan 24/02/09
  9.   Criteria for Posts 22:48  |  Mike 24/02/09
  10.   Guess who is responsible 22:55  |  Joe 24/02/09
  11.   yes precisely 22:58  |  Jacob 24/02/09
  12.   well, of course, what took you so long? 23:01  |  ivo 24/02/09
  13.   #3 iyke y you are right , but you list very few 23:22  |  TOMY 24/02/09
  14.   Amazing 23:22  |  Justin 24/02/09
  15.   He`s crazy but he`s partly right 23:30  |  Mo 24/02/09
  16.   So, Gaddafi woke up from his winter sleep and crawled from under 23:34  |  Benjamina 24/02/09
  17.   Sammy - This is called denial 23:35  |  Simha 24/02/09
  18.   SAMMY #8 I HOPE YOU ARE RIGHT 23:38  |  Mark 24/02/09
  19.   the mad man 23:47  |  roger 24/02/09
  20.   #10 Joe 23:50  |  maoriboy 24/02/09
  21.   ivo where you have been all this time you expose too much 23:51  |  shia 4 ever 24/02/09
  22.   #11 Jacob.. 23:55  |  maoriboy 24/02/09
  23.   iyke the korean war is yet to happen and of course 23:59  |  shia 4 ever 24/02/09
  24.   To Sammy from Jordan 00:03  |  Joe 25/02/09
  25.   Dear Sammy From Jordan 00:12  |  Angela 25/02/09
  26.   the list goes on... 00:19  |  Manu 25/02/09
  27.   critics 00:24  |  fanny 25/02/09
  28.   gaddafi 00:24  |  phil g 25/02/09
  29.   Daffy Gaddafi 00:30  |  Conroy 25/02/09
  30.   Sammy from Jordan 00:34  |  vik 25/02/09
  31.   Libyan Leader Serving As AU President 01:19  |  Bill Foonman 25/02/09
  32.   Israel to blame for dafur? Huh? What about global warming? 01:30  |  bat yam 25/02/09
  33.   8 Sammy don`t forget Georgia conflit intigated by Israel 01:38  |  lydia 25/02/09
  34.   To maoriboy 01:41  |  nz-er 25/02/09
  35.   # 25 Angela on radicals 02:21  |  maoriboy 25/02/09
  36.   Abdel Wahid al-Nur, Darfur Leader, Received w/ Open Arms in 02:32  |  Monitor 25/02/09
  37.   Gaddafi Duck 05:04  |  Mark Lincoln 25/02/09
  38.   Gaddafi makes a good point... 05:28  |  Silvienne 25/02/09
  39.   MONTOR there are Moslems all over Africa lots of Lebs 05:33  |  PETER SM 25/02/09
  40.   giving credence to all those rumours 05:39  |  Marvin Gaye 25/02/09
  41.   I very much hope Israel provided arms..... 05:59  |  Brad 25/02/09
  42.   2nd try. Ghadafi is right. Israel has a Darfur rebel office. 06:13  |  Maureen Ann 25/02/09
  43.   #25 Dear Angela 06:28  |  Sammy from Jordan 25/02/09
  44.   Jews also made the dinosaurs extinct 06:35  |  American Jew 25/02/09
  45.   Gaddafi Hates Black People 06:49  |  Yosemite 25/02/09
  46.   Only 10.000 killed.? 07:03  |  Stephen. 25/02/09
  47.   MONITOR there are millions&millions of Moslems in Africa as well 08:35  |  PETER SM 25/02/09
  48.   MOSSAD BEHIND 2004 TSUNAMI 09:27  |  Jacob 25/02/09
  49.   sammy fronm jordan 09:29  |  dannyAUSTRALIA 25/02/09
  50.   Amnesty report places China as the major arms supplier 09:52  |  Jo 25/02/09
  51.   crisis in Darfur 10:21  |  Haris 25/02/09
  52.   Gaddafi, Libya`s No. 1 Stand Up Comedian 10:59  |  Michael J 25/02/09
  53.   question 11:03  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 25/02/09
  54.   to sammy 11:07  |  yosi 25/02/09
  55.   #38 Maureen Ann 11:31  |  sms 25/02/09
  56.   Israel should really keep out 11:50  |  kye 25/02/09
  57.   Not on our watch 12:46  |  Ze 25/02/09
  58.   Gaddafi.. 13:15  |  David Nigel Braham 25/02/09
  59.   Funny Gaddafi 13:28  |  Sceptic 25/02/09
  60.   dont you just love gaddafi 13:45  |  zionist forever 25/02/09
  61.   Shalom Cipora #53 14:25  |  Tzfonit 25/02/09
  62.   From B.Sc. Sceptic to Ph.D. Sammy 14:29  |  Sceptic 25/02/09
  63.   Silvienne and what constitutes "a good point" 14:35  |  ZISD 25/02/09
  64.   And how precisely does this help to ease the Darfur situation? 14:44  |  ZISD 25/02/09
  65.   # 8 Sammy from Jordan - glad you mentionf Kurds 15:05  |  17 25/02/09
  66.   Building of Mosques - there`s a reason 15:15  |  Nechama 25/02/09
  67.   A rebel leader from Darfur has been in Israel and many refugees.. 15:26  |  Steve 25/02/09
  68.   Anyone remember Gaddafi`s brutal war in Chad? Continuing? 15:38  |  just wondering 25/02/09
  69.   CJK #53-yes why not? 15:47  |  Roo 25/02/09
  70.   Jo #50 blowing hot air 15:48  |  Kye 25/02/09
  71.   The 3rd Temple 16:02  |  Tyra 25/02/09
  72.   Good news, us Jews caused global warming too 17:14  |  Harvey 25/02/09
  73.   US should liberate the oppressed people in darfur 22:26  |  sam 25/02/09
  74.   Denial and Lies 01:18  |  Baruch Gold 26/02/09
  75.   Paranoid! 08:16  |  Paul 26/02/09
  76.   #61, Shalom Tzfonit 08:59  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 26/02/09
  77.   To # 8 09:14  |  Bored 26/02/09
  78.   To Paul about Paranoid Israel!! 09:30  |  Yosi 26/02/09
  79.   Shalom Cipora #76 11:08  |  Tzfonit 26/02/09
  80.   What else is Israel going to be blamed for? 22:44  |  Tyra 26/02/09
  81.   Welcome to the New World Disorder..... 05:26  |  Tyra 27/02/09
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