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"We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, with so little, for so long, we are now qualified to do anything, with nothing" By Konstantin Josef Jireček, a Czech historian, diplomat and slavist.

Did Dr. Riek stay at the U.S. Embassy in Juba for three days after December 15th?

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It’s been reported via the Angels of East Africa and other sources that the former Vice President of South Sudan – Riek Machar – was secretly given safe harbor by the U.S. State Department after a failed coup attempt he led last December. Machar reportedly stayed at the U.S. Embassy in South Sudan for three days after the coup attempt failed and was seen leaving the embassy as part of an SUV convoy replete with darkly tinted windows. This does not comport with the Obama administration’s stance last month that there was “(no) evidence of a coup attempt,” according to the assistant secretary of state for African affairs. The Obama administration’s official stance also doesn’t square with a December 16th article by the BBC that relayed the claims of South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir, who said the attempted coup had been put down. Machar is known to have a history that includes conflicting alliances, one with Sudan’s President Omar Al-Bashir – himself a Muslim Brotherhood member and ally – and the other with the South Sudanese liberation movement, once led by John Garang, who was killed in a helicopter crash in 2005. Even the pro-Muslim Brotherhood Al-Jazeera has conceded that Machar was once an aid to al-Bashir.

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