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...order to mislead the Americans, Iranians and Turks, who the Kurds know are listening to their phone calls. Since transcripts of these calls carry the weight of scripture in Washington, we risk being led into another intelligence failure in Iraq. For that matter, how do we know that al-Qaeda in Pakistan's tribal areas is not transmitting spoofed messages as disinformation, causing our Predators to strike innocent targets with the purpose of turning the locals against us? (See pictures of the battle against the Taliban...
...face of it, the statement makes no sense. The atrocities in Darfur began long after al-Bashir took power and supposedly turned "moderate and civilized." Meanwhile, amid fears of a violent reaction should al-Bashir be charged, other government officials have promised that there will be no retaliation against aid workers or U.N. peacekeepers stationed in Darfur - or the hordes of journalists who have flown to Khartoum in anticipation of the announcement...
Those contradictory messages point to what some experts believe is a widening gap between al-Bashir's supporters and other leaders in Sudan, who wouldn't necessarily mind seeing al-Bashir on trial. "An arrest warrant will change the dynamic of Sudanese politics radically," says Christopher Hall, head of Amnesty International's Justice Project. "You have a President of your country who is subject to an international arrest warrant, a fugitive from justice, and the implications for the country will be enormous. My guess is that there will be some very serious thinking among senior members of the Cabinet about...
...Al-Bashir's government is accused of playing a key planning role in the Darfur conflict, which has killed some 300,000 people and displaced 2.5 million in five years. In July, chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo sought an arrest warrant for al-Bashir on allegations that he oversaw plans to exterminate three ethnic groups in Darfur...
...Al-Bashir has sought solidarity among fellow African leaders, a notoriously tight-knit bunch who, as Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu put it in a New York Times editorial on Tuesday, "have so far rallied behind the man responsible for turning that corner of Africa into a graveyard." Despite Sudan's having garnered the support of China and Russia, it is now all but certain that the nation will not manage to persuade the U.N. Security Council to suspend the investigation or force the ICC to postpone its decision for a year...