Tag Archives: Sudan

Feds Won’t Charge Blackwater in Sudan Sanctions Case

By xxxevilgrinxxx | Published: June 28, 2010

Warren P. Strobel, Jonathan S. Landay and Joseph Neff/McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON – The security contractor Blackwater Worldwide tried for two years to secure lucrative defense business in Southern Sudan while the country was under U.S. economic sanctions, according to current and former U.S. officials and hundreds of pages of documents reviewed by McClatchy.

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Shorter Question Everything

By xxxevilgrinxxx | Published: March 9, 2010

Iraq Only a “catastrophic event” could prevent combat troops from coming home from Iraq, according to the top US general in Iraq. “But we don’t see a catastrophic event on the horizon right now,” General Ray Odierno told MSNBC’s Norah O’Donnell Monday. Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, a Shiite who helped ease sectarian strife, emerged on [...]

Posted in Cyberwar, Middle East, Politics, Shorter Question Everything | Also tagged Cuba, Cyberwar, Internet, Iran, Iraq, US | Leave a comment

Sudan: DC Lobbyist Indicted for Conspiring to Violate Sudanese Sanctions and to Act as Illegal Agent of Sudan

By xxxevilgrinxxx | Published: October 29, 2009

AllAfrica Washington, DC — Robert J. Cabelly, 61, of Washington, D.C., has been indicted in the District of Columbia in an eight-count indictment charging him with conspiracy to violate the Sudanese sanctions regulations and to act as an unregistered agent of a foreign power, four counts of violating the Sudanese sanctions regulations, as well as [...]