Wolfgang - 03 Jun 04 - 05:15 AM

The timing of the story had a great deal to do with a western journalist going into the area, against the wishes of the Sudanese government and bringing out visual evidence of what is going on, and has been going on for decades. It has been known about but lacked any evidence that could be "shown" to the world.

As to why the victims are portrayed as Christians has got something to do with the sites sounding the most strident warnings are Christian Missionary sites - Not the CIA, Wolfgang.

By all means asks who profits, pray tell us.

In Iraq - the duly elected government and people of that country, much more so than they ever profitted under the regime of Saddam Hussein.

In Sudan - the Sudanese government and the people of that country to the extent that the Sudanese government wants them to.

Or are you trying to say that oil, gas, whatever natural resource is found, then exploited by Neocon multi-national companies, who dive in extract what they want and run off with the profits leaving the land they entered impoverished? Utter rubbish. In very few places on this planet do Oil Companies OWN the oil they extract - the national governments of the countries they operate in OWN the oil. The oil company extracts it under licence, a licence that can be revoked at any time. The Oil Company extracts the oil, transports, refines and sells it. The Government of the country gets paid in royalties and in tax revenue.