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Gold/Mining/Energy : ARAKIS: HIGH RISK OIL PLAY (AKSEF)
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To: Zeev Hed who wrote (7285)11/13/1997 12:38:00 AM
From: Douglas V. Fant  Read Replies (3) of 9164
 
Zeev,

Be careful not to ascribe 20th century values to the 9th, 12th, or 16th centuries.

And I'm glad that you brought up the example of medieval Spain and the Spanish Inquisition. Right now, over 700 years later a certain regime named the Islamic Republic of the Sudan, the country from whom your company Arakis was granted a concession routinely and systematically tortures and murders people (including publicly crucifying four young Nubian women last year for converting from Islam to Christianity) who choose not to follow the official state religion. So if you condemn medieval Spain in 1997, then you must also be upset by a government/country in 1997 which currently practices the identical intolerant theology/philosophy and also kidnaps young African children and sells them into slavery into Saudi Arabia and Mauretania, right? So quoting that old archaic religious leader from the Middle East: "Who here without sin will cast the first stone at the southern Sudanese???"

And for the record John Garang de Mabior is a forward-looking secular Leader who wants a secular state, with freedom of religion. And I hardly call trying to protect your people from genocide and slavery megalomania.... (such as the peoples in the Provinces of Abyei, Southern Kordufan and Southern Blue Nile- expect them to receive the wrath of the religious/secret police now that the SPLA has identified these provinces as desirous of "revisiting" the current Sudanese political framework).

Now as to the subject of AKSEF, note that the first round of peace negotiations did two things- first it clarified for the first time the positions of both parties; second it made clear that neither side believes that it has "lost" the civil war....That politically is a major step forward....

Allright Zeev my friend- enough political fol-du-rol. Come check out the "fire sale" on tech stocks now ongoing elsewhere on SI Threads. There will be plenty of time to catch the upside in AKSEF once that the civil war is resolved...

Sincerely,

Doug F.
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