July 2, 2007 (LPAC)--Sudan President Omar al-Bashir announced in an international video press conference from Khartoum June 30, that his government has earmarked $800 million for Darfur reconstruction, as reported by africanpath.com. This is a direct challenge to the British oligarchs and their lackeys who want to use the poverty-fed crisis in Darfur as a pretext to destroy the Sudanese nation-state. Bashir also specifically warned against the Iraqization of Darfur.

Bashir said that the recent report released by the UN environment program, which found that climate change might be the primary cause of the conflicts in Darfur, has vindicated his government. Sudan has always insisted the conflicts in Darfur were caused by scarce resources and ancestral tribal conflicts, which are not the fault of Sudan alone.

But Bashir also insisted that the Darfur crisis has been exacerbated by certain foreign interventions, and as an example gave a good slap to the U.S. State Department and USAID, saying that if it were not for external interference, championed by a certain Roger Winter, Darfur would have registered a fundamental transformation in terms of development in recent years. Winter has been involved in various interventions in Sudan, on behalf of U.S. agencies, for the last 25 years, and in 2005 was named Special Representative for Sudan to advise Condoleezza Rice on policy related to Darfur and to Sudan. He was formerly the mentor of Clinton Administration Africa honcho Susan Rice, and EIR exposed Iran-Contra style capers in Africa by this duo in 1998.

Bashir said that Sudan is investigating organizations and persons who have raised funds under guise of helping the people of Darfur. This, he said was to find out what has been done with the enormous cash generated and also stop the abuse of the good will of the donors.

As for the French initiative to threaten Sudan with a military intervention in the guise of a UN intervention, he said saw nothing new in the French conference on Darfur, in Paris. He said that Nicolas Sarkozy was the new poodle of George Bush, hence, they (Americans) have decided to outsource Darfur's case to the French. He said Sudan was sticking with the hybrid force with UN support, and that the troops would be African, and that participants from elsewhere would fulfill functions such as engineering, to map out and also fine-tune his country's development plans for Darfur.

On the terrorism issue, Bashir said that Sudan had provided the United States with intelligence, before the American embassies were attacked in Kenya and Tanzania, and before 9/11, that could have prevented both incidents. He said he wondered what the Americans did with that intelligence.