Canada may send 100 Grizzly armoured personnel carriers to Sudan...They would be used by the African Union, which has a 7,500-soldier force that is trying to stop Arab militias from killing the local population in the Darfur area.
But there's a potential hold-up:
But sending the vehicles is not a sure thing because the U.S. State Department has a veto. The Grizzlies contain U.S. equipment, and cannot be sent to a third country without U.S. permission...
This should be a gimme. Bush has talked about the need for action. The carriers themselves are 30 years old and not suitable for use except as support vehicles, or against relatively lightly armed forces like those in the Sudan. If there's any delay in U.S. approval, there'll be all the more ammunition for those who argue that Bush is trying to prevent action.
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