Potential Progress

Word on the street is that President Bush may be taking solid action to impose new sanctions against Sudan in the next few days and that he is directing Condoleezza Rice to draft a resolution asking the UN to adopt the same actions.

According to Bloomberg,

"Bush also will identify three individuals targeted for sanctions, the first time the U.S. has done so unilaterally, according to a senior administration official who briefed reporters last night. He said two of three are senior Sudanese government officials linked to the area's militia forces, known as the Janjaweed, and the third is a top rebel leader.

The announcement of the penalties is a follow up to a warning Bush gave last month in a speech at the United State Holocaust Museum in Washington. He said at the time that the world has a ``moral obligation'' to halt the genocide taking place in the Darfur region of western Sudan."

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