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06KHARTOUM1619
2006-07-10 08:59:00
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Embassy Khartoum
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Friday Prayers Address U.S. Condemnation of Kordofan

Tags:  PREL SOCI NK US SU 
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TAGS: PREL SOCI NK US SU
SUBJECT: Friday Prayers Address U.S. Condemnation of Kordofan
Attack and North Korean Missiles

UNCLAS KHARTOUM 001619

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E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PREL SOCI NK US SU
SUBJECT: Friday Prayers Address U.S. Condemnation of Kordofan
Attack and North Korean Missiles


1. (SBU) Summary: July 7 prayers at a Khartoum mosque praised U.S.
condemnation of the July 3 rebel attack in Hamra al-Sheikh in
Kordofan, yet linked the response to perceived U.S. apprehensions
arising from North Korean missiles and a purported shift in the
world balance of power. End summary.


2. (SBU) On July 7, pro-Government, state-run Omdurman Sudan
Television in Arabic broadcasted Friday prayers at the Al-Shahid
(Martyr's) Mosque in Khartoum offered by Al-Shaykh Abd-al-Jalil
al-Nadhir al-Karuri. He included in his second sermon the following
remarks, as translated and reported by FBIS:

(Begin text)

The news of this week says sometimes the superpower understands the
truth and knows fear. To know the truth is what was announced by
the U.S. State Department, condemning the military attack by rebels
on Hamrat al-Shaykh town in Kordofan. They condemned the act and
said that it violates the agreements (Darfur Peace Agreement),which
was witnessed by the world, it violates the peace which people have
agreed upon and appealed to them (rebels) not to violate the
agreement. We praise this recognition of truth by them (U.S. State
Department).

Their recognition of fear emanates from the fact that North Korea
has manufactured a continental missile reaching 1,000, 2,000, 3,000,
4,000 kilometers, shaking all the countries. It shakes the
countries leading a campaign to become imperial states in the world.
As they are being threatened by what they used to refer to as Third
World country.

They are fearing because they had tried sanctions against it and
failed, because other countries in Asia opposed it. Thus, the Cold
War has been revived and now it is between the West and Asia.
Because the Asian countries as a group have defended the missile
issue and it should not lead into an embargo.

They have made South Korea to sleep and its buses both the big and
the small ones are full in Khartoum streets. The North (Korea) is
developing and its advancement is not in building cars and buses but
missiles which brought about a balance (of power) in the world.

(End text)

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