Under the title “Darfur Crisis,” Arab News said that the seriousness of the Darfur crisis in Sudan is deepening and diplomatic pressure on Khartoum over the past few months has now become open debate of UN-sanctioned military intervention.
The Sudanese Government maintains that it is caught in a protracted civil war, and no outside powers should seek to interfere in its internal affairs. Unfortunately the government’s unhelpful responses to successive diplomatic intervention have strengthened the potential of countries that wish to intervene. The focus will soon turn on alleviating the humanitarian tragedy that is unfolding for over a million Sudanese citizens, rather than Khartoum’s diplomacy.
The Saudi Gazette commented on the 9/11 Report, saying it has now been published comprehensively. The bi-partisan Congressional Committee that produced the six hundred-page report took two years to complete its findings and interviewed some one thousand people. The conclusion that dominates the finished product is that prior to September 2001 the United States did not take the terrorist threat seriously enough to put in place the measures required to prevent a major terrorist incident.
Source: SPA
