Sudan rejects U.S. request to send Marines to secure embassy

[Bosonic]

Source: Reuters

KHARTOUM, Sept 15 (Reuters) - Sudan has rejected a U.S. request to send a platoon of Marines to bolster security at the U.S. embassy in Khartoum, the state news agency SUNA said on Saturday.

On Friday, a U.S. official told Reuters that Washington would send Marines to Sudan to improve security at the embassy after protesters entered the mission in a demonstration against a film that insults the Prophet Mohammad.

"Sudan is able to protect the diplomatic missions in Khartoum and the state is committed to protecting its guests in the diplomatic corps," Foreign Minister Ali Ahmed Karti told SUNA

Read more: http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/sudan-rejects-us-request-to-send-marines-to-secure-embassy/

[Auntie Bush]

1. Yeah! We'll see about that.

If our embassy gets overrun...who will be responsible?

[Kindly Refrain]

2. Awesome! Yet another country we can bomb the shit out of.

[triplepoint]

3. We Love and are Addicted to War

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[Posteritatis]

4. The host country, in that case

Of course, Sudan probably is better able to provide security than Libya is, despite having lost a war recently themselves.

Pretty ballsy statement on their part, though, given that Sudan's not exactly a shining beacon of diplomatic capital the last few years, but the nastiest elements of religious crazy there aren't in the capital in the first place...

[hughee99]

5. Wonder if they're still pissed about the pharmaceutical factory we blew up. n/t

[former9thward]

6. Sudan can't protect anything.

German embassy was set fire and the British embassy attacked. policemen just stood by when the crowd forced its way into Germany's mission. http://news.yahoo.com/sudan-protesters-storm-german-embassy-raise-islamic-flag-124438100.html