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Students can pressure their university endowments to think twice about investing in companies with commercial activity in Sudan, Iran, Syria, North Korea, and Libya. Congress has already introduced bipartisan legislation (H.R. 5061) that would limit Sudan??s access to US capital markets and mandate disclosure of all US commercial activity in Sudan. And in August, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank, the Center for Security Policy, released a report entitled “The Terrorism Investment of the 50 States” demanding more security responsible investing by America’s top public pension systems...
Though a recent ceasefire brokered between the two sides was intended to put an end to the genocide and other atrocities, watchdogs claim that not only have the attacks in the south continued, but they have spread to include similar acts of aggression against Black Muslims in Sudan??s Darfur region...
...forces have apprehended Farouk Hijazi, the Iraqi spymaster and former ambassador to Turkey. Hijazi has confessed to meeting with top al Qaeda brass, under Saddam’s orders, in 1994 in Sudan??as had long been speculated by American intelligence. He will not admit to a much-rumored December 1998 summit with bin Laden in Kandahar, at which time he allegedly offered the Saudi exile refuge in Iraq...
...Mideast expert Mansoor Ijaz—who negotiated Sudan??s 1997 counterrorism offer to the Clinton administration—has noted, the Mukhabarat headquarters also yielded proof that the regime had funded Abu Sayyaf, al Qaeda’s regional affiliate in Southeast Asia, through its embassy in Manila. This matches up with reports by Philippine intelligence. Indeed, the Philippine government expelled Husham Hussain, deputy secretary of the Iraqi embassy, in February for terrorist connections. Phone records show that Hussain called two leading members of Abu Sayyaf directly before and directly after an Abu Sayyaf bombing in Zamboanga...
...described the campaign as seeking “to single out Israel among all nations as the lone country where it is inappropriate for any part of the university’s endowment to be invested.” Demonizing the Jewish State as uniquely repugnant, worse even than Sudan??as the campaign implicitly does—is something that most Jews cannot help but see as “anti-Semitic in effect...