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Sudan, Bin Laden and the antichrist

It's well known that Sudan's government has awarded the highest state medals to Osama Bin Laden.
It's well known that Sudan's government is responsible for the genocide of Christians and the reintroduction of slavery in Africa.
But you shoud start seeing beyond the smoke left after Clinton's "attack" to the aspirin factory ...
VITAL STATISTICS: Oil Companies Operating in Sudan
Source: Drillbits and Tailings; Published: February 28, 2001
[1] Talisman Energy of Canada (TLM on the Toronto and New York Stock Exchanges). Talisman is the only Western corporation in the Greater Nile Petroleum Operating Company (GNPOC), which now sends roughly US$500 million per year to the regime in Khartoum. Talisman entered Sudan in fall of 1998 by virtue of its acquisition of Canadian Arakis Energy thereby becoming a 25% partner in GNPOC. Talisman CEO Jim Buckee has described Sudan as a "friendly, peaceful place," and declared in published commentary that, "Increasingly, Sudan is becoming a relative source of regional stability." In fact, Talisman's security---like that for all the oil companies operating in Sudan---continues to take the form of brutal scorched-earth warfare, designed to displace or destroy the civilian populations in the southern oil regions.

 [2] Petronas, the state-owned oil company of Malaysia. An original GNPOC partner, Petronas has a 30% stake in the consortium. Petronas is also a very significant participant in other concession areas in Sudan, and has a 28.5% share in Concession Block 5a, where presently human displacement and destruction related to oil development is most intense. They also have the "right of first refusal" on Talisman's 25% share in GNPOC, should Talisman withdraw. The Malaysian press has recently begun an intensive charm offensive of its own, celebrating the benefits that accrue to Sudan because of oil development. The numerous reports on scorched-earth warfare and civilian displacement in the oil regions are never mentioned.

 [3] China National Petroleum Carnation (CNPC) the state-owned oil giant of the People's Republic of China. They have the largest share of the GNPOC consortium: 40%. They are also extremely active in the Adar Yel concession area in eastern Upper Nile (GNPOC areas are in western Upper Nile). China is the major military supplier to the Khartoum regime; they continue to do nearly all the construction in the oil regions; and Amnesty International reports that Chinese workers are armed, and evidently willing to use their weapons on Sudanese civilians. Many of the perhaps 15,000 Chinese nationals working in Sudan are from the military, or have military training. China---now a net importer of oil---looks to Sudan as its premier off-shore oil source.
 The CNPC has been amply capitalized by New York Stock Exchange-listed PetroChina. PetroChina is a virtually wholly owned and governed unit of the CNPC; almost US$300 million of last April's PetroChina IPO on the New York Stock Exchange went directly to the CNPC, and thus became available for use in Sudan. (PetroChina is PTR on the NYSE)

[4] Lundin Oil of Sweden (NASDAQ listing under: LOILY). This small oil exploration company very recently resumed activities in Concession Block 5a, south of Bentiu (GNPOC operations are north and west of Bentiu). They are presently the prime beneficiaries of the newly constructed, all-season road that extends 60 miles south of Bentiu and allows not only oil equipment but heavy military equipment to move south. Lundin is evidently not persuaded by the numerous reports of extremely intense scorched-earth warfare and civilian displacement associated with their oil development in Concession Block 5a.

 [5] TotalFinaElf of France/Belgium (TOT on the New York Stock Exchange and in Paris). The oil giant is not yet active in its huge concession areas (running as far south as Juba in Equatoria), but all signs are that they will soon begin active exploration. This will mark a major escalation of Western corporate participation in oil development efforts in southern Sudan. Recent large-scale military moves by the Khartoum regime seem designed to secure TotalFinaElf's concessions.

 [6] BP (BP on the New York Stock Exchange and in London). BP provided the critical investment in the PetroChina IPO (spring 2000). Without BP's US$578 million investment in the initial offering, it would have failed outright because of opposition from Sudan advocates, Tibet advocates, human rights groups, organized labor, and those concerned about the national security issues raised by an American capital market presence for Chinese oil companies. This makes BP responsible for the nearly US$300 million that went directly from the PetroChina IPO to China National Petroleum Corp (40% partner in the Greater Nile project).

 [7] OMV of Austria. This Austrian oil company is in the process of privatizing (i.e., seeking a presence in capital markets). It is has a 26.125% stake in Concession Block 5a.

 [8] Agip of Italy. Signed an agreement with Petronas in December, 1999 for oil exploration in Sudan.

 [9] Royal Dutch Shell owns a refinery in Port Sudan; the Dutch Trafigura Beheer BV has served as the initial agent for Sudanese crude oil exports.
   SOURCES: Complied by Eric Reeves, Professor at Smith Hampton College in Massachusetts, United States, using the following resources: "Sudan---The Human Cost of Oil," Amnesty International Report (London, May 3, 2000 - available at Amnesty International website; "US Policy to End Sudan's War: Report of the CSIS Task Force on US-Sudan Policy," Francis M. Deng, J. Stephen Morrison, co-chairs, CSIS Publication, February 2001, available at Center for Strategic and International Studies website; "Human Security in Sudan: The Report of a Canadian Assessment Mission," prepared for the Minister of Foreign Affairs by John Harker et al. (Ottawa), January 2000; available from the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Government of Canada (Ottawa); "Situation of human rights in the Sudan," by Leonardo Franco, Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights (Sudan), annual report to the General Assembly [October 1999], available at the UN website; "International Monetary Fund: Sudan -- Second Review of the Second Annual Program Under the Medium-term Staff-Monitored Program," by Susan Creane, IMF Publication, November 6, 2000; "BP Amoco buys into PetroChina float: Oil company's Dollars 1bn stake may yet save Chinese sell-off," by James Kynge and Ho Swee-lin, Financial Times (London) March 25, 2000; [7] [On the interest of TotalFinaElf in Sudan's oil concessions] "Sudan: French company to invest in oil exploration," BBC Monitoring, December 20, 2000, available on Al-Ra'y al-Amm web site, Khartoum, in Arabic; "Lundin Oil AB: 2001 Capital Budget Increased By 46 Percent." Press Release, Vancouver, BC, Business Wire, January 15, 2001; "Quiet diplomacy: A shame and a farce," by Dave Toycen, Executive Director of World Vision Canada, in The Globe and Mail (Canada), February 15, 2001; "Protests, Regulatory Review Hamper Planned Stock Listing of PetroChina," by Peter Wonacott and Eduardo Lachica, Wall Street Journal, February 8, 2000; "Report on Sudan," Human Rights Watch, August 1998; US Committee for Refugees: www.refugees.org; For maps of the oil regions and patterns of civilian displacement, the resource of Sudan Update: www.sudanupdate.org]; "Working Document II: Quantifying Genocide in Southern Sudan and the Nuba Mountains, 1983-1998," by Millard Burr, publication of the US Committee for Refugees, December 1998; "Sudan: Humanitarian Crisis, Human Rights Abysm," Eric Reeves; Human Rights Review, Volume 1, Number 3 [Spring, 2000]. 

Oil companies in Sudan complicit in depopulation of large areas

Source: Alexander's Gas and Oil Connections; Published: April 05, 2001
Oil companies operating in Sudan are complicit in the systematic depopulating of large areas of the country and atrocities against civilians, tens of thousands of whom have been killed and displaced from the areas around the oil fields, according to a report to be published.

Christian Aid, in a searing report on the consequences of Sudan's new oil bonanza, accuses the oil companies of deep involvement in the government's war machine against southern civilians. The companies are protected by government forces and allow their airstrips and roads to be used by the military, while the revenues from oil are funding expansion of the war, the report says. The report includes dozens of eyewitness accounts from villages where people have been driven out by bombing and ground attacks. "Oil has brought death," said one Nuer chief, Malony Kolang. "When the pumping began, the war began. Antonovs and helicopter gun ships began attacking the villages. All the farms have been destroyed, everything around the oil fields has been destroyed."

Christian Aid's report calls on foreign oil companies -- from Canada, Sweden, China, France and Austria -- to suspend their operations in Sudan. It also calls for BP and Shell to divest their shares in firms whose parent company is involved. The report accuses the oil companies of trying to distance themselves from the catastrophe of southern Sudan by claiming they are not responsible for the behaviour of companies in which they are shareholders.

BP said it had no intention of disposing of its interests in PetroChina "because there is no reason why we should". The Chinese company, in which BP bought a $ 578 mm stake 12 months ago, is not active in Sudan, although its parent group, China National Petroleum Corporation, (CNPC) is. Toby Odone, a spokesman for BP, insisted there was no operational connection between PetroChina and CNPC. "When PetroChina did its IPO [listing on the US stock market] it assured the Securities & Exchange Commission that it had no interests in Sudan because of the sanctions issue," he explained.

A Shell spokesman said it had no exploration or production interests in Sudan either directly or through its Chinese partner Sinopec. Dave Stuart said: "Although Sinopec did at one stage control interests in Sudan as a result of the restructuring of the Chinese state oil industry, that stake was moved back to CNPC during 1999." He said Shell would not agree to Christian Aid demands that it withdraw from its shareholding in Sinopec because there was no connection between Sinopec and CNPC.

 Rolls Royce admits it provided 34 diesel engines to help pump oil along a 1,000-mile pipeline from Sudan's oil fields to an export terminal on the Red Sea. Martin Brody, a Rolls Royce spokesman, said the company always took advice from the British government on where it could do business but also had its own criteria. He added: "As a supplier of equipment we always take a responsible view of our actions. We gave a lot of information to Christian Aid and will need to look at its report in more detail."

Glasgow-based Weir Group is also being criticised for a £ 20 mm contract to provide equipment for pumping stations on the same pipeline. Emrys Inker, a spokesman for Weir, confirmed its involvement in Sudan but said all the work had been done with the approval of the Department of Trade and Industry and the British government.

Weir had no comment on accusations that it is complicit in human rights abuses, or on speculation that it is involved in a second contract to supply pumps. The report gives harrowing details of the lives of refugees from the oil areas who have walked hundreds of miles to very precarious areas of southern Sudan, already wracked by decades of civil war.

"All the villages along the road have been burned," said John Wicjial Bayak, a local official driven from a village close to the main road built for access to the oil fields. "You cannot see a single hut. The government doesn't want people anywhere near the oil."

One man described fleeing the bombing with six of his grandchildren to hide in a forest. "We dug a hole for the children and put a blanket on top," he said. "We stayed 20 days in the forest eating wild fruit." Systematic attacks on the villages began in March 2000, according to village chiefs. One was bombed 10 times before government troops finally burned out the residents. Across southern Sudan life is on a knife-edge and the government's strategy of banning aid flights to Upper Nile is fanning fears of a new famine tragedy similar to that of 1998, in which tens of thousands died.

Frank Wolf Puts U.S. Financial Regulators On Notice:
Ignore U.S. Capital Market Fundraising for Sudan's Oil At Their Peril

Source: The Center for Security Policy; Published: 16 March 2001
(Washington, D.C.): On 8 March, one of the leading voices of conscience and human freedoms in the U.S. Congress wrote an historically-important letter to Laura S. Unger, Acting Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Rep. Frank Wolf, Republican of Virginia warned Ms. Unger about the abject failure of her predecessor, Arthur Levitt, to recognize the suffering and loss of life that has been abetted by the SEC's callous indifference to foreign oil companies raising substantial funds in the U.S. capital markets while simultaneously operating in genocide-, slavery- and terrorist-sponsoring Sudan.

The most glaring example of SEC misfeasance, if not actual malfeasance, was in the case of an initial public offering (IPO) by PetroChina, a hastily-contrived subsidiary of China National Petroleum Company (CNPC), in April of last year. Primarily due to unprecedented, vigorous opposition by a broad-based coalition of non-governmental organizations -- dubbed the PetroChina Coalition -- the proceeds from this IPO were slashed from an originally-targeted amount of $10 billion to less than $2.9 billion. Regrettably, this development still provided CNPC with substantial funds to help underwrite its oil development partnership with the odious Khartoum regime. Congressman Wolf made clear the role played by the Levitt SEC (which Ms. Unger served in as a commissioner): "While I know this was not your intention, more people are suffering and have died because of the PetroChina listing."

It is to be hoped that Ms. Unger will respond at once and favorably to Rep. Wolf's appeal for "vigorous investigation" into the PetroChina IPO and the company's delisting on the New York Stock Exchange. By so doing, she would not only be taking "appropriate action" in the present case but carrying forward into the future the visionary work of previous employer and sponsor, former Senate Banking Committee Chairman, Alfonse D'Amato. Together with Senators Sam Brownback and Jon Kyl, Sen. D'Amato led the successful effort in November 1997 to compel the Russian natural gas monopoly, Gazprom, to withdraw a $3 billion bond offering from the U.S. market -- because of a similar decision by that energy firm to enhance the oil revenues of a terrorist-sponsoring nation (in that case, Iran -- a violation of the Iran-Libya Sanctions Act).

As it considers Representative Wolf's recommended actions against PetroChina and other foreign oil firms operating in Sudan, the SEC should also take another, long-overdue step: Expand immediately disclosure requirements for future foreign entrants into the U.S. capital markets to include where they are doing business in the world -- as well as their parent companies, subsidiaries and affiliates -- and with whom.

Ms. Laura Unger
Acting Chairman
Security and Exchange Commission
450 Fifth St NW
Washington D.C. 20549

Dear Ms. Unger:

As you know, last year I strongly opposed the Initial Public Offering (IPO) of the Chinese National Petroleum Company/PetroChina (CNPC) because of CNPC's role in providing the Government of Sudan with unprecedented resources to carry out its war and atrocities against Southern Sudan. While I know this was not your intention, more people are suffering and have died because of the PetroChina listing.

I want to share with you a speech I recently made at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum about the death and suffering in Sudan. The atrocities in Sudan are so severe that the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's Committee on Conscience has issued a genocide warning for non-Muslims living in southern Sudan.

At the museum I said:

As we speak, major international oil companies are initiating and expanding operations in southern Sudan that, unless stopped in their tracks, will generate billions of dollars in annual revenue for the Khartoum regime. This oil revenue, once secured, will powerfully insulate Khartoum from world pressure to end its brutal policies. This revenue, Khartoum has openly pledged, will be spent on modern bombers, helicopter gun ships and other weapons that will enhance its war against the people of southern Sudan by orders of magnitude.

"The U.S. Commission on Religious Liberty has bravely called on the President to limit oil companies that finance the regime from access to U.S. capital markets. Here in this museum, in the literal shadow of exhibits of the slave labor practices of many German companies, in the face of what we know about the victimization of Jews at the hands of European banks, insurance companies, art galleries and other institutions, a clear message must be sent to the following oil companies: Talisman of Canada, the China National Petroleum Company, Petronas of Malaysia, Lundin of Sweden, Total/Fiba/Elf of France, OMV of Austria-- Enter into oil contracts with the genocidal regime in Sudan, and produce revenue for it, only at grave risk of losing -- financially and otherwise -- far more than you can possibly gain from those contracts.

Oil development and exploitation are having a horrible effect on southern Sudan. The recently released Department of State 2000 Human Rights report outlines the government of Sudan's continuing egregious human rights abuses including: condoning slavery, bombing its own people, religious persecution through forced conversion to state religion, and a scorched earth policy of killing everyone living around oil fields.

The report on Sudan says:

"The government and government-associated forces have implemented a scorched earth policy along parts of the oil pipeline and around some key oil facilities. These forces have injured persons seriously, destroyed villages, and driven out inhabitants in order to create an uninhabited security zone."

According to the enclosed November 2000 International Monetary Fund Staff Country Report on Sudan, the Government of Sudan's military expenditures have nearly doubled since 1998. Only the new oil revenue can account for such a dramatic increase in military expenditures. This report is dependent upon information released by the Sudanese regime, so the actual amount of military expenditures is likely much higher.

Also enclosed is a report from World Magazine that states a Chinese petroleum company has supplied the Khartoum regime with a radar system that led to approximately 152 bombings last year, mostly of civilian and humanitarian organizations. This report goes on to state that Talisman Energy Corporation allowed the Sudanese military forces to use its airstrip that Talisman built near its oil concession.

As you know, the Chinese National Petroleum Company holds a 40 percent stake in the Great Nile Oil Project in Sudan, the largest oil project in Sudan. Prior to initiating the IPO, CNPC restructured and created a supposedly "domestic-only" unit of CNPC, "PetroChina." CNPC has a corporate and financial identity that would seem to be indistinguishable from that of its parent, 90 percent owner, and the beneficiary of 90 percent of profits.

PetroChina was ultimately listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in April 2000, instead of CNPC. However, it has come to my attention that CNPC received close to $265 million from PetroChina IPO. I also have enclosed the PetroChina prospectus that shows CNPC was to receive close to $265 million from the PetroChina offering.

It has recently come to my attention that R. Richard Newcomb, director of the Office of Foreign Assets Control, wrote to a number of U.S. Senators concerning American capital market participation by those with interests in Sudan. I have enclosed this letter. In particular, in the context of commenting on the NYSE-traded Talisman Energy of Canada, Mr. Newcomb offer his interpretation of President Clinton's 1997 Executive Order imposing comprehensive economic sanctions on Sudan:

"Section 2(d) [of the 1997 Executive Order] would prohibit U.S. persons from contracting to underwrite or purchase shares in new public offering [s] if the proceeds were for use to support a project in Sudan after the effective date of the Order."

Based on Mr. Newcomb's interpretation of the 1997 Executive Order, CNPC's reception of $265 million from the PetroChina IPO would be a clear violation. I urge you to vigorously investigate this matter and take appropriate action. I believe this violation offers grounds for de-listing PetroChina from the NYSE. I urge you to take appropriate action to begin that process to de-list PetroChina unless CNPC relinquishes its investment and operations in Sudan.

The facts cannot be any clearer about the effects of oil development and resources in supporting the Government of Sudan's continuing campaign against the suffering people in southern Sudan. I hope you will take action to help.

Sincerely,
Frank Wolf
Member of Congress

[Mr. Wolf added in his own hand the following personal note to Ms. Unger: No Federal Government Agency should ever stand by and let this take place. History will judge the SEC harshly.]


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