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In reply to the discussion: More than 400 refugees 'drown in Mediterranean' after boats capsize crossing from Egypt to Italy [View all]EdwardBernays
(3,343 posts)Sudan is what's driving Ethiopian refugees:
"These conflicts lead to strange alliances with the US. Once eager hosts of Osama bin Laden, Sudan's Islamist movement has since split, with the two factions now fighting a proxy war in Darfur. In the 1990s, the U.S. rejected every initiative offered by the Sudanese to cooperate on counter-terrorism issues, including an offer to extradite Osama bin Laden. The Sudanese governments willingness to share its copious intelligence on Al-Qaeda has now bought it some immunity from responsibility for the atrocities in Darfur.
"The CIA has initiated close contacts with Sudanese intelligence director MG Salah Gosh, who has also been identified in Congress as a war crimes suspect for his exploits in Darfur. In a sign of growing cooperation many Sudanese prisoners at Guantanamo Bay have been released to Sudanese authorities. Besides intelligence sharing, the U.S. is also keen to protect the peace agreement that will end the North-South civil war and release vast new reserves of oil onto the market.[2]"
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_activities_in_Sudan
Whoops.
The dictator of Eritrea was also up until some point recruited by the CIA:
http://hafash.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2336:2013-01-09&catid=25:english&Itemid=519
People in Africa consider him ex-CIA - at best:
http://mereja.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=97102
Notice a trend?
Finally, if you read this, you'll question just how little we are responsible for all of it:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_activities_in_Somalia
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