Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, the current African Union president, on Tuesday accused "foreign forces" including
actually especially
Israel of being behind the Darfur conflict.
Judges from the International Criminal Court are due to announce on March 4 whether they will issue a warrant for the arrest of Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir over allegations that he masterminded genocide in Sudan's Darfur region. UN diplomats have told Reuters the warrant will be issued.
But Gaddafi, addressing a meeting on ways to expand cooperation between the United Nations and African Union, urged the Court to stop its proceedings against Bashir:
"Why do we have to hold President Bashir or the Sudanese government responsible when the Darfur problem was caused by outside parties, and Tel Aviv [Israel],
even in a BS conspiracy theory, he couldn't admit that the capital is Jerusalem
for example, is behind the Darfur crisis?"
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