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Strategies & Market Trends : Strictly: Drilling II -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: lh56 who wrote (3045)	10/21/2001 9:12:27 PM
From: Douglas V. Fant	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36161

lghansen, (OT) The African Sudanese have fought the Islamic Fundamentalists for over 17 years and suffered over 2,000,000 dead. They know all about the fundamentalists- You too have now unfortunately met the members of the international islamic jihad- evil fascists and terrorists. If you look in Webster's Dictionary for the definition of the word "terrorist" you'll see it defined as "one who coerces through violence and intimidation". That defines the islamic fundamentalists too a "tee". Unfortunately in the Sudan oil companies are stoking the fires of mass murder, slavery, and death....But even through the death and destruction the Africans fight on against the Arabs in the Sudan. (By the way-The 20+ Africans killed by the NIF Government bombers south of Raga- Were civilian mainly women and children refugees "kindly" directed toward a UN relief center by the NIF Government. The NIF Government routinely bombs African refugee columns and refugee relief centers- The Arabs consider the Africans just so much "chaff" in the way of their international jihad schemes). Ultimately against a determined foe, as the Africans have bravely shown, the fundamentalists as the forces of darkness will fail....As shall we triumph.... News Article by AFP posted on October 21, 2001 at 12:10:59: EST (-5 GMT) SPLA says it killed 429 Sudanese soldiers in attacks on oil fields CAIRO, Oct 21 (AFP) -- The southern rebel Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) claimed on Sunday that its fighters had killed 429 government soldiers in a string of recent attacks and destroyed oil company production sites. The attacks took place between October 12 and Saturday on oil company sites in three southern oil-producing areas, an Eritrea-based SPLA spokesman, Yasser Armane, said in a statement received in Cairo. He named the targetted areas as Bentiu, capital of al-Wihda state, Fariang in Upper Nile state and Fom al-Zaraf in Bahr el-Ghazal state. The SPLA rebels entered Bentiu and took control of the local armed forces headquarters before withdrawing from the city, the statement said. It did not say why they had withdrawn from Bentiu, but added that they still had the city surrounded, as well as Ribkona to the north. The governor of al-Wihda, John Dore Majok, was quoted in press reports on Saturday as saying the rebels had attacked the state capital and killed seven people. The SPLA statement also said 105 pro-government militia had switched sides during the fighting in the Fom al-Zaraf area. "Our troops seized 191 Kalashnikovs and a considerable quantity of ammunition," the spokesman said. The SPLA "renews its firm ultimatum to oil companies (demanding) their withdrawal from oil producing zones which are legitimate military targets," the spokesman added, without elaborating on the rebel casualties. "Our operations are continuing with the aim of stopping oil production which causes death and the displacement of the inhabitants, and the revenues reinforce a regime which is terrorist, totalitarian and corrupt," it said. Sudan produces 205,000 barrels of oil per day, and exports 145,000 of them. Another SPLA spokesman in Nairobi also said Sunday that at least 20 people were killed and many wounded when government planes bombed a large group of civilians fleeing fighting in the town of Raga in Bahr el-Ghazal. Samson Kwaje told AFP that government Antonov planes had dropped bombs on a "moving population" at a place called Sopo, south of Raga, on Saturday night. The southern-based mainly animist and Christian SPLA have been fighting a civil war against successive Arab and Muslim Khartoum governments which have enforced Islamic law since 1983, against a backdrop of localized fighting over resources. Up to 1.5 million people are believed to have been killed in the 18 years of fighting, which has also displaced at least four million people, according to humanitarian groups.