Libya almost liberated now what?

[Mr Khan]

huaxiong90 said:

Mr Khan said:

huaxiong90 said:

Iran actually wants the Arab spring to hit all the U.S. backed regimes, particularly the GCC nations, so that they can gain a foothold against American influence. But the democratic values of it, yes, they oppose that.

Honestly, my favorite Muslim leaders whom I think all Arab countries should take notes from are of course Erdogan (though the secularists hate him as they believe he's trying to completely undo Turkey's secular nature), Malaysia under Mahathir Mohammad, and the Emir of Qatar. If you don't know about Qatar, read these to get a brief idea:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Qatar

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_relations_of_Qatar

Erdogan's seemed kinda shady, mostly because he called Omar al-Bashir "a good Muslim," though i don't know much about the merits of his domestic policy

Sudan's a hard call. To start off, a good number of Northern Sudanese were saying that prior to the South's seccession, when he first took office things have actually been improving in Northern Sudan, thanks to most of their profits coming from petrol exports. It's also said that he was trying to seek peace with the South and end the conflict, but the South had unrealistic demands, coupled with the insanely high pressure and sanctions imposed against him from foreign countries. In fact, they say Gaddafi and particularly Mubarak (who was very supportive of Israel) were key players in causing the seccession to happen.

Basically, the word on the street amongst Egyptians is that the conflict had been around for a long time, and the discovery of rich petroleum fields in the South caused Israel specifically and other foreign countries to take an interest in it. So since then, they would continuously manipulate and spark fighting between the North and South, so that they can then take advantage of the chaos, and cast the blame on the North, and then impose their sanctions, so that they can seperate the North from the rich oil fields in the South.

Take this with a grain of salt, since I can't confirm it completely to you, but that's what I have heard from local Egyptians, and the Egyptians Aljazeera interviewed on the streets of Egypt about the seccession.

Personally, I don't see it as being too farfetched. The practice of causing conflicts in a country between religions/ethnic groups has been done for a long time now.

But the genocide. It seems fairly clear that the Janjaweed had connections with Bashir, or at least Bashir just sat back and let the Janjaweed do as they wished, which is where blame more squarely falls on Khartoum's shoulders, even if Western Oil interests were likely trying to aggravate matters down South (which is very possible)