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U.N. Sends Rescue Helicopters to South Sudan as Crisis Worsens
New York Times ^ | December 20, 2013 | ALAN COWELL and RICK GLADSTONE

Posted on 12/20/2013 11:34:36 AM PST by Pan_Yan

LONDON — The United Nations said Friday that it had sent helicopters to rescue personnel from a base in South Sudan that came under lethal attack amid a worsening political crisis, and President Obama warned that South Sudan, the world’s youngest country, “stands at the precipice.”

The number of civilians seeking refuge in the United Nations’ other outposts there exceeds 30,000, and diplomats expressed fears about the potential for a civil war.

Britain, which began evacuating its citizens on Thursday, said Friday that it would send a second airplane to Juba, the capital. “We strongly advise all British nationals in South Sudan to leave the country if they can do so safely,” the Foreign Office said, adding that it might become more difficult to escape if the situation worsened. The United States offered similar advice to Americans and suspended operations at its embassy in Juba this week.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: africa; bhoafrica; darfur; iran; southsudan; ssudan; sudan; un

1 posted on 12/20/2013 11:34:36 AM PST by Pan_Yan
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To: Pan_Yan

Blackhawk Down Chapter II
Sudan is more dangerous than Iran.
Only a fool or our President would consider sending anything there.


2 posted on 12/20/2013 11:50:24 AM PST by Zathras
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To: Pan_Yan

All refugees need to be sent to South Africa.


3 posted on 12/20/2013 11:52:43 AM PST by Cowboy Bob (They are called "Liberals" because the word "parasite" was already taken.)
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To: Zathras

Not to sound racist but what is wrong will all these black majority countries and their total failures


4 posted on 12/20/2013 11:53:23 AM PST by edcoil (System now set up not to allow some to win but for no one to lose!)
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To: Zathras

South Sudan is NOT Somalia and is Definitely NOT worse than Iran.


5 posted on 12/20/2013 11:59:11 AM PST by BwanaNdege (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. J.F. Kennedy)
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To: Pan_Yan

The Natives are restless.


6 posted on 12/20/2013 12:21:37 PM PST by Venturer (Half Staff the Flag of the US for Terrorists.)
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To: edcoil

You said it in your question.


7 posted on 12/20/2013 12:22:16 PM PST by Venturer (Half Staff the Flag of the US for Terrorists.)
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To: Zathras

Maybe he should make a fact-finding trip there.


8 posted on 12/20/2013 12:28:41 PM PST by ZULU (Impeach that Bastard Barrack Hussein Obama the Doctor Mengele of Medical Care)
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To: Pan_Yan

Lets send in a few thousands advisers...


9 posted on 12/20/2013 12:48:57 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Pan_Yan
I wonder if the Religion of Pieces is,in any way,at the root of this mess.
10 posted on 12/20/2013 1:08:45 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Osama Obama Care: A Religion That Will Have You On Your Knees!)
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To: edcoil

Africa has no history of democracy or republicanism. It was a stone age land of tribes and tribal kingdoms. Europeans didnt really care much about educating the general population of such things, and in the end a few lucky native men, whom studies overseas, gained power after independence by default because they were the only ones that weren’t completely clueless.

The power became intoxicating and soon almost every nation on the continent became a one-party strongman dictatorship with many having Marxist and Communist philosophies. After that it just became a slug match between armed thugs launching coups and counter-coups or civil wars to replace one power thug with another in order to loot the country, with sometime a free election mistakenly breaking out. The winner usually killed or overthrown.


11 posted on 12/20/2013 1:37:35 PM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: Zathras

Are these the same rescue helicopters that were sent to Benghazi?


12 posted on 12/20/2013 1:38:49 PM PST by ozdragon
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To: Pan_Yan
HERE we go again - another great foreign adventure by the Kenyan clown in the White Hut, who has no clue about anything other than forming a group of street agitators in Chicago. His staff are nothing more than faculty advisers in a liberal college - not one ounce of experience between the 16 of them.
13 posted on 12/20/2013 2:03:31 PM PST by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: Pan_Yan

What happened to make them intervene? did the mean old christians decide to fight back against genocide??


14 posted on 12/20/2013 2:03:56 PM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: dragnet2

The Pentagon just announced it is sending 45 combat soldiers to Juba to protect Americans there.


15 posted on 12/21/2013 2:22:24 AM PST by gandalftb (Go OK State Cowboys!!)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Thnks Pan_Yan.

South Sudan: US Military Aircraft Hit By Rebels
news.sky.com | December 21, 2013
Posted on 12/21/2013 8:47:18 AM by ilovesarah2012
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3104011/posts


16 posted on 12/21/2013 6:22:59 AM PST by SunkenCiv (http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
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To: Pan_Yan

By now Obama is high as a kite on choom, who who the heck knows what he will do.


17 posted on 12/22/2013 6:45:10 AM PST by Gabrial (The nightmare will continue as long as the nightmare is in the Whitehouse.)
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To: Pan_Yan

Why don’t we just send them an army of community organizers and pull the rest of our personnel and forces out?


18 posted on 12/22/2013 10:56:41 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Cheerio
"His staff are nothing more than faculty advisers in a liberal (community) college - not one ounce of experience between the 16 of them. "

Amen and AMEN !

19 posted on 12/23/2013 3:09:24 AM PST by Tainan (Cogito, ergo conservatus sum -- "The Taliban is inside the building")
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