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2nd/14:30: Chad Morin and Evan Barlow scuffle around the puck and keep jawing at each other after the whistle. Let's see if something develops there...
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...from departing on Oct. 25, amid charges the group was planning to sell the children to adopting parents in France. Since then, police and U.N. agency investigations have discovered most if not all the 103 children are not orphans nor from Darfur - but instead were taken from villages in Chad by what witnesses say were white aid workers 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...
...almost universal - including by Sarkozy. But French human rights and civil liberties groups objected to the jailing of the journalists and flight crews - workers, their defenders had argued, who'd only been doing their jobs without playing an active role in the scheme to hustle the children out of Chad. Their release therefore drew cheers in Europe but a surge of protest in Chad, where some believe the white suspects in the case are being given deferential treatment normal Chadians could never hope for. Press reports from Chadian capital N'Djamena are replete with residents expressing concern that the release...
...potentially problematic - especially given his expressed desire to see all "French nationals be judged by the French legal system." Even before Sarkozy's arrival, many French opposition politicians asked whether French government officials had long been aware of Zoe's Ark's intention to smuggle the children out of Chad, but failed to do anything about it. Sarkozy looks destined to face criticism either way: that he didn't originally do enough to obtain the extradition of Zoe's Ark workers; or he did, and thus showed disdain for Chad's justice system...