Turabi: US pressure no guarantee for peace - Sudan

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US pressure on Sudan to make peace with southern rebels has pushed the sides towards peace but is biased towards southern secession and is not enough to make a deal stick, a Sudanese opposition leader has said.

Islamist leader Hasan al-Turabi said the government of President Umar Hasan al-Bashir, which seized power in a 1989 military coup, needed to move aside to let a broad-based transitional administration begin implementing any peace deal.

Failure to do so could undermine an agreement.

Al-Turabi had been the Islamist ideologue behind al-Bashir's government before he was detained in 2001 after a power struggle. He was released from house arrest in October.

"Unfortunately external pressure from the United States is just pressure," Turabi said in a telephone interview. "If a peace deal is signed under blind pressure like that there would be very little guarantee," the former ally of al-Bashir said.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/C1FF9E63-BCF4-4E8A-A1C3-1466E6B83DA0.htm

Do you, Conservatives or Liberals, honestly believe Bush has any idea what's going on in Sudan?

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1. Bush couldn't even find it on a map...

He just rubber stamps whatever decisions his handlers make for him.