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To: DMaA who wrote (9737)	8/29/2000 4:46:09 AM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9980

I don't know about the London Daily Telegraph, but I certainly don't think Newsmax is very credible. If the distortion level suggested by the reference to a container port built by Hutchison Whampoa as "China's new air and sea base" is any indication, they should be treated mainly as comic relief. The most thorough report I found on the issue was from Amnesty International, dated May 2000: amnesty.org It is highly critical of the oil project and all foreign involvement therein; it reports that "there were allegations that armed guards from China participated in this displacement during construction of the pipeline". The report makes no mention of any Chinese military deployment. I can easily believe that there are armed Chinese guards in Sudan, but I find the stories of large-scale military deployment - even in the tens of thousands - very unlikely.