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To: Tomas who wrote (1053)	9/6/2000 12:46:42 AM
From: Douglas V. Fant	Read Replies (1) of 1713

Tomas, You have a point there. Talisman is in no way a "bad guy" How do you conduct business under western standards when no western standards exist in a country like Sudan? And you are right- Unlike Kosovo the international community is "dragging its feet" in resolving the problems in the Sudan- Maybe the sheer enormity of the crimes is not comprehensible, I don't know...Maybe they are wishing that the Sudanese Regime would just go away...Well it's not... And indeed Talisman's plight may indeed be the catalyst to an international resolution of the problem... The roadblock to that resolution is the fact that the best oil & gas concessions lie further south into ethnic African territory. The NIF Regime wants to kill or drive out the Africans from these area so that the Arabic North controls or colonizes all of the key resources... It's basically the Nigerian problem all over again- Except this time in East Africa..... Finally geopolitically in East Africa generally, the key, key resource in the area (and Egypt's concern)is the Nile River itself. Egypt is concerned that if the south breaks away in the Sudan that not one (Uganda) but two non-Arabic and non-Muslim countries will control the headwaters of the Nile (and threaten an old British colonial water settlement which favored Egypt). One or two dams on the Upper Nile and economic development in Egypt stops in its tracks (A situation similar to Turkey's stranglehold on water resources in the Upper Levant in the Middle East). Also Egypt has a large Christian minority in southern Egypt that has been roundly abused for years. They worry about insurrection there too.... So a very complex situation in which Talisman finds itself....

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