CIA working with murderous Sudanese regime

Sudan has zero incentive to stop the genocide in Darfur because the U.S. will not hold them accountable.  According to an intelligence analyst, Sudan's government works as a spy for the CIA in Iraq.  If the U.S. uses force to stop the killing in Darfur, Sudan will no longer give the CIA the information they need:

Sudan has secretly worked with the CIA to spy on the insurgency inIraq, an example of how the U.S. has continued to cooperate with theSudanese regime even while condemning its suspected role in the killingof tens of thousands of civilians in Darfur.

President Bush hasdenounced the killings in Sudan's western region as genocide and hasimposed sanctions on the government in Khartoum. But some critics saythe administration has soft-pedaled the sanctions to preserve itsextensive intelligence collaboration with Sudan.

"Intelligencecooperation takes place for a whole lot of reasons," said a U.S.intelligence official, who like others spoke on condition of anonymitywhen discussing intelligence assessments. "It's not always betweenpeople who love each other deeply."

Sudan's motivation behind this strategy is very basic.  The Sudanese government knows that if the U.S. is stretched thin in Iraq, they may not be in a position to intervene in Darfur without pushing the military beyond a breaking point.  So Sudan's strategy is simple: keep the U.S. out of Darfur by doing everything possible to keep them in Iraq.

So what is the U.S. thinking, you ask?  It just comes down to what is more important to Bush -- stopping the genocidein Darfur, or working with homicidal military regimes to assist in awar that many former generals say cannot be won anyway.

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[granny]

"So what is the U.S. thinking, you ask?"

1.) We are not leaving our oil interests there without an established security system in place and an occupational force on the ground, to protect it .

Think Guantanamo - Korea - Panama ...