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Sudan's President, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, reckons that being on the run is easy. In March, the International Criminal Court (ICC) indicted al-Bashir for war crimes and crimes against humanity for his role in the conflict in Darfur, where at least 200,000 people have died since 2003 in a campaign that the Bush Administration described as government-sponsored genocide. The ICC indictments, the first to be handed down against a sitting head of state, obligate the world's nations to arrest al-Bashir on sight. And yet, he points out, he has attended summits and meetings...
...countries - Uganda is the latest - say they could arrest him if he tries to cross their borders. "It could take two months or two years," says the court's chief prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo. "But President Bashir's destiny is to face justice." (Read TIME's Q&A with Omar al-Bashir...
...Read "The Case Against Omar al-Bashir" by Angelina Jolie...
...also suit another powerful commander in the region, Sirajuddin Haqqani, who has influence with the Pakistani Taliban. As the head of the Haqqani network, the son of mujahedin leader Jalaluddin Haqqani has used his madrassas in Waziristan to mount vicious attacks on U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Similarly, Mullah Omar, the leader of the Afghan Taliban, may intervene to back one of the men in contention. Aftab Sherpao, Pakistan's former Interior Minister, says Omar's support was crucial to Mehsud's ambitions when the Pakistani Taliban was formed...
SENTENCED A Virginia judge handed U.S. national Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, 28, a life sentence for a 2003 plot to assassinate then President George W. Bush...