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FM’s prediction: Unless you plan on smuggling epic amounts of booze aboard, be prepared for a flash-back to your high school museum trip...
...promising to give the children money, schooling or candy. Initial accusations by Chadian President Déby that the group of 17 suspects were part of a "pedophile" organization involved in "child trafficking" were later modified to official charges ranging from "kidnapping" to complicity. The seven Europeans flown home aboard Sarkozy's presidential plane remain under investigation, and are expected to stand trial for having failed to prevent the unauthorized expatriation of the children for adoption - an illegal act in Chad...
...chartered plane. Zoe's Ark officials had not obtained authorization from Chadian officials to expatriate the children, saying their condition required immediate action that time-consuming administrative procedure would have stalled. Members of Chad's government, however, have said many of the children that were being hustled aboard the plan were in fine health, and had been wearing fake bandages and unconnected IV drips to give the misleading impression of injury or illness...
...case has alarmed some French human rights activists over a perceived presumption of guilt in the affair. They also decry Chad's decision to try the three journalists and seven flight crew members for complicity, since they were not actively involved in selecting children for expatriation, nor hustling them aboard the plane. French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Wednesday responded by asking Déby to free the French journalists rapidly...
...Marines climbed back aboard their Humvees to leave, the screen on their computerized mapping system showed that eight IEDs, or roadside bombs, had possibly been planted along their route back to the base. They chose another way home. "If the civilians want the bad guys out, they'll be out," Townsley said as they drove away. "But if they don't want them out, they won't be out. They either want it or they don't. It's either gonna happen...