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...concern into highly visible action. Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, spearheads an operation to gather evidence and bring a case against two of Sudan’s guiltiest high-level officials. Within Darfur, Pablo Recalde, a U.N. ground worker, sends a heavily armed convoy to bring food to another region of Darfur, its future uncertain. But no one experiences the crisis more intensely than those in Darfur. The camera highlights refugee solidarity, but the frustration and despair within the camp is equally palpable. Meetings explode into angry words and constant hardships leave people vulnerable...
...dictator who nevertheless is the only moderating force on a military-and-security apparatus that many fear harbors extremist elements. Bhutto, whose return to Pakistan was a nod toward democratic ideals, already believes that members of Pakistan's government and intelligence agencies knew about the attack on her homecoming convoy and helped plan it. Musharraf's closest foreign allies have long feared that those same military and intelligence bodies still include officials sympathetic to the militants Islamabad is supposed to be fighting. In the meantime, as Musharraf and Bhutto maneuver for advantage, the extremists in the mountains continue to expand...
...July 2007 a mosque in Islamabad became the site of a bloody confrontation between government security forces and radical Islamists and triggered a fresh wave of bombings, kidnappings and other attacks. Within hours of Bhutto's arrival home from exile last month, more than 150 people in her convoy were killed in a bomb blast targeting...
...Secretary of State Rice earlier this month ordered changes in the way the Department oversees security contractors. Video cameras will photograph all diplomatic convoys in Iraq, including those guarded by contractors, and each convoy will be accompanied by a diplomatic security officer reporting directly to the Department. Following a scathing internal report that found serious lapses in the department's oversight, the head of Diplomatic Security, Richard Griffin, resigned under pressure last week...
Tuesday's two-hour convoy - which wound through more than four miles of bullet- and bomb-ridden city decimated by the very worst of the war - celebrated the life of Ramadi's favorite son, Sheik Sattar Abu Risha, the romantic icon of the region's sudden turn against al-Qaeda and Islamic extremists. Though Sattar was killed by an insurgent's bomb on Sept. 13, his "Awakening" movement lives on and his image adorned police cars, armored vehicles and city walls for Tuesday's parade marking the end of 40 days of mourning. Hundreds of Iraqi police officers and soldiers...