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...Sarkozy flew down to the Chadian capital of N'Djamena on Sunday to finalize the release and return of three French journalists and four Spanish crew members of a jet Zoe's Ark had chartered to airlift 103 children it claimed were orphans from Darfur. Chadian police in the eastern city of Abéché moved in to stop the plane 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...
...wants. Nor would Bush have much time for Sarko's complaints about the disparities in the dollar-euro exchange rate. Instead, expect the two men to emphasize their agreement (hardly new) on fighting the good fight in Afghanistan, gradual French reintegration within NATO, and doing something about thuggery in Darfur and Burma...
...solutions, no matter how uncontroversial or widely supported, can never be flawless and exact. The law of unintended consequences, in so complex a subject as human beings, ensures that no plan will be foolproof. Such a realization should not force us subsequently to withhold our moral outrage against the Darfur atrocities. But to recognize the abomination is not to discover the cure. Surely, the intricate market mechanisms, for which the Darfur petitioners think they have fully accounted, will not operate as predictably as they do in theory. By asserting Americans’ moral obligation to petition for divestment, these activists...
...arrested workers have denied the most sinister charges of attempted kidnapping. They've also rejected allegations their goal was to sell the children to couples in France who paid as much as $8,400 to Zoe's Ark parent organization Children's Rescue to take Darfur orphans into their homes. Children's Rescue officials in France have acknowledged the Oct. 25 operation to remove the children from Chad lacked required authorization, but say the urgency of getting the children care made rule-breaking expediency necessary. Zoe's Ark's French lawyer, meanwhile, has suggested there is a political motive driving...
...Indeed, one French diplomat following the case tells TIME that alarming areas in Children's Rescue literature on its intentions led France's Foreign Affairs Ministry to issue numerous warnings about unethical activity. "The initial description of the operation spoke of the 'adoption' of not 103, but 10,000 Darfur orphans - adoption that's not only illegal under Chadian law, but would also be in violation of French law regulating adoption," the diplomat said...