Posted on 07/21/2005 1:16:39 AM PDT by 12B
10:01 21Jul2005 RTRS-US SECRETARY OF STATE DEMANDS APOLOGY FROM KHARTOUM AFTER US OFFICIALS MANHANDLED IN SUDAN 10:11 21Jul2005 RTRS-U.S. Secretary of State Rice demands Sudan apology
KHARTOUM, July 21 (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice demanded an apology from Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir after U.S. officials and journalists were manhandled at a meeting on Thursday. "It makes me very angry to be sitting with their president and have this happen," Rice told reporters on her plane before leaving Khartoum for Darfur. Earlier, she told reporters she wanted an apology. Sudanese officials shoved U.S. journalists away from the Bashir meeting and slammed the wooden doors to his palace in their faces. Some U.S. officials were also blocked for several minutes before the Sudanese agreed to allow Rice and aides in. The media was later allowed to witness briefly the talks. ((Reporting by Saul Hudson, editing by Elizabeth Piper))
"Andrea Mitchell (NBC) is on the Imus program now. She tried to ask a question during the press conference and was yanked away by security guards."
Too bad boo hoo, most of them should have been left in SUDAN to see what they are getting the USA ready for..
A MARXIST HEAVEN run by the people of peace (muslem)
I disagree. She was traveling with an official US delegation.
We don't treat foreign journalists that way when they are here on the same kind of trips.
"We don't treat foreign journalists that way when they are here on the same kind of trips."
Are you Joking?? you completely missed the point ..I must assume you are a reporter as you exhibit the "total LACK of comprehension and insight " that is required for the JOB
You're incoherent.
Condi shouldn'rt even waste her time with any nation on that sh%thole continent of Africa.
Very interesting. Andrea must be very PO'd.
They are ineducable. IMO
She sounded more po'd than I've ever heard her when Imus talked to her by phone. When Chip Reid was on later, he said she is no one to be messed with.
No doubt about it. Unfortunately cold war politics scine 1956 played a role in the US stance in dealing with the criminals in Khartoum. Both the US and the Soviet Union, sometimes on one side, sometimes on the other, sought to use the historic north-south division in Sudan for their own purposes.
Since the mid 80's our policy has been to contain and punish the Islamic govt. The final nail in the casket came when Sudan suported Iraq in the first gulf war.
I agree that we have not done enough. But since Christians have become more involved the situation has improved. Sudan is a horrid nation with horrid Islamics.
"Buff the Magic Dragon, lives by the sea"
Well, Diego, anyhow.
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