The Hawaii Job: (A Case Lee Novel Book 5) by Vince Milam

Author:Vince Milam [Milam, Vince]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2020-02-17T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 20

Musa Kibir. There was a blast from the past. The cousin or nephew or who-the-hell-knew of Abdel Baabas. Genocidal Janjaweed leaders in Sudan’s Darfur area. Oh, man. We’d taken out Baabas. Musa Kibir, second in command, took his place. We weren’t allowed to take that SOB out. So here we were, years later, bearing the price for our decision. Or rather, the Company’s decision.

Sudan. The largest and by pretty much anyone’s definition one of the most messed-up African countries. Long a training hub and safe haven for violent international terrorists and radical Islamic groups. Al Qaeda, Hezbollah, the Abu Nidal Organization—you name it, Sudan welcomes you. Slavery is widespread throughout the place. The real deal. Arab raiders from northern Sudan enslave thousands of southerners, who are black. The raids intensified during the 1980s along with the civil war between north and south. The civil war killed two million people, driven by ethnic and tribal hatred. And oil. And gold. The Chinese run the Sudan oil business. The Russians, with the support of the government in Khartoum, have large mining interests. Gold interests.

Official cease-fires and treaties have come and gone. A low-level civil war continues to this day. Plenty messed-up. But Khartoum’s government leaders—thugs and maniacs—intensified the messed-up factor during the early 2000s.

Enter the Janjaweed in Sudan’s Darfur region—a California-size area nestled against the country of Chad. Janjaweed is an Arabic colloquialism and translates as a man with a gun on a horse. Or a camel. Or a Land Cruiser or a Renault truck or a military vehicle.

Janjaweed militiamen are members of nomadic “Arab” tribes who’ve had a long history of conflict with Darfur’s settled “African” farmers. The Janjaweed were also card-carrying members of the homicidal maniacs tribe, backed and encouraged by the Sudanese government. So it began.

A typical Janjaweed raid started with a Sudanese air force attack, using helicopter gunships or Antonov bombers targeting mud-structured villages. Within hours, mounted Janjaweed would sweep into the area and kill and mutilate the surviving men. Then rape and kill the women. The children were rounded up and either killed or kidnapped. Slaughter and horror defined.

The US declared the Darfur terror a genocide. The United Nations not so much, although they did send thousands of ineffective peacekeepers who had minimal effect. The Sudan government and the Chinese and the Russians declared, “What conflict?” The International Criminal Court filed war-crime charges against Sudan’s leader. He responded with a middle finger. Meanwhile, Darfur’s bone-dry terrain soaked up the lifeblood of over three hundred thousand innocent people.

A quarter-million people fled over the border into Chad—another basket-case country. But at least the refugees weren’t slaughtered on a regular basis. Until Abdel Baabas decided Chad’s border—and the collection of refugee camps—was no hindrance to the Janjaweed’s movements. He had that wrong. Enter Delta Force.

The US wouldn’t be seen as engaging in what was termed by the international community as a “conflict.” Well, it was less a conflict and more the slaughter of village inhabitants. Slaughter in the tens of thousands.

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