Beshir aide makes Darfur peacekeeper threat (AFP)

ADDIS ABABA (AFP) - An advisor to President Omar al-Beshir threatened Friday that peacekeepers could be expelled from Darfur if the Sudanese leader is indicted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court. "We are telling the world that with the indictment of our president al-Beshir we can't be responsible for the well-being of foreign forces in Darfur," Beshir's advisor Bona Malual told reporters in Addis Ababa. "After that we may ask them to withdraw from our territory," he added. ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo accuses Beshir of instructing his forces to annihilate three non-Arab ethnic groups in Darfur, masterminding murder, torture, pillaging and the use of rape to commit genocide. Last week, Moreno-Ocampo asked ICC judges to issue a warrant for Beshir's arrest. A decision could take several months, but if... [read full story]