UN Head Taps Libya To Host Darfur Talks

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Says Ending Violent Crisis In Africa Is A Priority

(AP)  U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon heads to Libya on Saturday, two days after choosing Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi to host new negotiations to end the four-year conflict in Darfur.

Ban told reporters Friday that "Libya has been playing quite a constructive role" in bringing the splintered rebel groups of Sudan's Darfur region together, which could bolster Libya's international standing.

Libya was chosen as the venue after extensive consultations with all the key parties by the U.N. and the African Union, who will be mediating the new negotiations.

Gadhafi, who is expected to meet the secretary-general during his two-day visit, has hosted two meetings of Darfur rebels.

More than 200,000 people have died and 2.5 million have been uprooted since ethnic African rebels in Darfur took up arms against the Arab-dominated Sudanese government in 2003, accusing it of decades of neglect. Sudan's government is accused of retaliating by unleashing a militia of Arab nomads known as the janjaweed - a charge it denies.

The secretary-general, who has made peace in Darfur a top priority since taking the reins of the U.N. on Jan. 1, spent four days in Sudan - including a brief visit to a camp for some of the millions forced to flee their homes. He then flew to Chad, which has been seriously affected by the spillover of the Darfur violence.

Chadian President Idriss Deby, speaking to reporters after his talks with Ban, said he had discussed hosting a preliminary meeting for Darfur rebels before the peace conference set to start Oct. 27 in Libya "to smooth out the rough edges so that we avoid the failures" of past negotiations.

Speaking to reporters Friday night, the secretary-general welcomed Deby's proposal. "I think it is necessary and it is good and I am grateful to President Deby's kind offer and flexibility," he said.

"I think Chad can make (a) good contribution, and I'm convinced that it can happen before we begin (the) formal meeting - and we will work toward that," Ban said.

U.N. envoy Jan Eliasson and African Union envoy Salim Ahmed Salim have been spearheading international efforts to get the key Darfur players back to the negotiating table and will be mediating the negotiations in Libya.

Eliasson said he would like all the parties to remain in Libya once negotiations begin, which observers said will step up pressure for a settlement.

During the next seven weeks, Eliasson said he and Salim "will be in contact with the movements as much as possible to discuss the negotiating team that they will want to have, the agenda, the format of the meeting."

The new negotiations follow a U.N. and AU conference in Arusha, Tanzania, in early August that brought Darfur rebels together to agree on a common platform for talks on issues such as power- and wealth-sharing, security, land and humanitarian issues.

Seven major rebel leaders came, but there was one important holdout - Abdel Wahid Nur, who leads a major faction of the Sudan Liberation Movement and wants the fighting to stop before negotiations start.

Libya has a history of destabilizing its neighbors by supporting various rebel groups - including in Chad. But in more recent years it has tried to improve its international image, and has hosted meetings of Darfur rebel groups aimed at pushing the peace process.

As a member of both the Arab League and the African Union, Libya could be a bridge between ethnic Arabs and ethnic Africans in Darfur, and between and Arab and African states that have been divided over how to respond to the Darfur crisis. Arab states have tended to support the Arab-dominated central government in Sudan.

[oakishpines]

'' ... i just never could imagine walking into talk to a bunch of police and soldiers and saying to them: ''lets go to war in y''alls sons and daughters and brothers and sisters schools and call it ''dare ya'' and see how many little kids get mugged and raped and killed'' and then having them all say ''sounds great, let''s do it'' ... but that''s exactly what happened ... ''

[lars008-2009]

it is fascist nazi terrorislam stupid%u2026.

non muslims of the world unite... fight against the tyranny of the fascist nazi terrorslam imperialist empire of the darkside...

I was a fanatic...I know their thinking, says former radical Islamist
By blaming the Government for our actions, those who pushed this "Blair''s bombs" line did our propaganda work for us.
More important, they also helped to draw away any critical examination from the real engine of our violence: Islamic theology.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=465570&in_page_id=1770

Bless the Beasts and Children
Fascist nazi terrorslam kills every man woman and child in the village again%u2026 typical mo for terrorslam%u2026
http://www.michaelyon-online.com/wp/bless-the-beasts-and-children.htm

Our Prophet commanded us to fight the kaafirs when we are able and to attack them in their homelands and to give them three choices before we enter their lands: either they become Muslim and be like us, sharing our rights and duties; or they pay the jizyah (poll tax) and feel themselves subdued; or they fight, in which case their wealth, women, children and homes become permissible as booty for the Muslims.
http://islamqa.com/index.php?ref=13759&ln=eng&txt=before%20islam%20arabia%20pagan

the truth about fascist nazi terrorislam...
http://www.terrorismawareness.org/what-really-happened/

[xzavierbrown]

UN is not involved???? Durfur is now fu*cked..

[j-whitman]

UN,,,, You''d better watch out,, xzavierbrown''s playing with his Born Again Kill or Convert Video Game again & Senator "Wide Stance" is playing with him.

[hamiltongrad]

Libya ? This is insane.



A new Freedom Council should be formed - only elected Democratic States to Participate. The UN closed down. No one would miss the chatter and the blather.

[xzavierbrown]

who is going to save durfur from the UN and the liberal vampires like bono and goldof??

[lars008-2009]

what do you call an ideology that:

kills you if you don''t join it...

http://islamqa.com/index.php?ref=82201&ln=eng&txt=islam%20law%20kill%20kaafir

kills you if you leave it...

http://islamqa.com/index.php?ref=696&ln=eng&txt=kaafir%20kill

kills you if you don''t do what they tell you to do..

http://islamqa.com/index.php?ref=6035&ln=eng&txt=kaafir%20kill

kills you if you speak against it%u2026.

http://islamqa.com/index.php?QR=22809&ln=eng

kills anybody that is not a member of it...

http://www.hauns.com/~DCQu4E5g/koran5.html

still practices slavery

http://islamqa.com/index.php?ref=12562&ln=eng&txt=slavery

still practices pagan rituals...

http://answering-islam.org/Silas/pagansources.htm

allows the r a p e of babies and animals...

http://www.homa.org/default.asp?TOCID=2083225445

a. satanic cult???
b. fascist nazi terrorislam???
c. all the above???

Our Prophet commanded us to fight the kaafirs when we are able and to attack them in their homelands and to give them three choices before we enter their lands: either they become Muslim and be like us, sharing our rights and duties; or they pay the jizyah (poll tax) and feel themselves subdued; or they fight, in which case their wealth, women, children and homes become permissible as booty for the Muslims.
http://islamqa.com/index.php?ref=13759&ln=eng&txt=before%20islam%20arabia%20pagan

[lars008-2009]

NONE OF US IS FREE UNLESS ALL ARE FREE!

None Of Us Are Free - Lynyrd Skynyrd
http://www.lyrics007.com/Lynyrd%20Skynyrd%20Lyrics/None%20Of%20Us%20Are%20Free%20Lyrics.html

WHY IS IT NOT ONE ISLAMIC COUNTRY GRANTS EQUAL RIGHTS TO NON MUSLIMS?

FASCIST NAZI TERRORISLAM SAYS UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATES ISLAM LAW...

Universal Declaration of Human Rights
http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html

For example, in 1981, the Iranian representative to the United Nations, Said Rajaie-Khorassani, articulated the position of his country regarding the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by saying that the UDHR was "a secular understanding of the Judeo-Christian tradition", which could not be implemented by Muslims without trespassing the Islamic law.

http://www.un.org/terrorism/
http://www.un.org/terrorism/strategy-counter-terrorism.html
http://www.un.org/

But the accepted assumption in India is that most of India''s Muslims were converted to Islam through the sword. Meaning the Indians were given an option between death or adopting Islam. The third option was getting examined in Islam religion along with heavy taxes- Jeziya (poll tax) and Kharaj (property tax).

http://adaniel.tripod.com/Islam.htm

this is what fascist nazi islam calls peace....

are you ready to live under islam rule as a non muslim???

apartheid fascist nazi islamic style

Rights of Non-Muslims in an Islamic State
http://www.sullivan-county.com/id3/islamic_state.htm