This press release is not about the weapons of Mass Deception (Destruction).  It is about another instrument of an international order which is in a financial as well as a political crisis.
The fact that the ICC pre-trial chamber has dismissed a charge of genocide against President Bashir is another proof of the Prosecutor’s already shaky credibility.  The chorus shouting genocide which he headed began during the US presidential campaign in 04 and has since been steadily and systematically escalating.
The ICC is now well on the way to become Europe’s Guantanamo.  Its call for help from third parties to arrest suspects is similar to the infamous rendition policy.
The ICC, which considers only situations in Africa and closes its eyes to atrocities in Iraq, Afghanistan and Gaza has no credibility at all.  The Sudan (like the USA, China and Russia and tens of other countries, including India and Indonesia, which combined together make more than half of the world’s population) is not a member of that “club”, has not ratified the Rome Statute and does not accept the legal basis of the Security Council referring Darfur investigation to the ICC.
Notwithstanding the way we choose to see it.  There are several mysterious questions:-

A highly successful Roundtable meeting was held at Meeting Room 4 – House of Lords on Thursday 26th February ’09.  It was organised, convened and chaired by the Cordoba Foundation on the occasion of the 4th Anniversary of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement 2005 in Sudan.
Baroness M. Uddin welcomed the participants with a short speech in which she expressed her commiserations for Lord Ahmed regarding the most unfortunate repercussions of his car accident.
Later on David Drew MP stood in for Baroness Uddin until the end of the Roundtable at around 1.30 pm.
The Director of Cordoba Foundation, Mr. Anas Altikriti  invited the Sudanese Ambassador His Excellency Omer Siddig to introduce the speakers who were:
1. H.E. Dr. Ghazi Salahuddin, Adviser to President Bashir and leader of the majority at the National Assembly.
2. Dr. Lam Akol Ajawyn, former minister of Foreign Affairs, member of the National Assembly and member of SPLM.
3. Mr. Peter Jones, lawyer and  4. Dr. Khalid Al Mubarak, Media Counsellor, Embassy of Sudan.

Jamal Mahjoub’s well-researched and comprehensive obituary of Tayeb Saleh (Guardian 20 Feb 09) contains a grave inaccuracy.  Mr. Mahjoub quotes Mr. Saleh’s “disapproval of the Islamist regime in Khartoum”.

This is an incomplete representation of Saleh’s position.  When the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) was signed in 05 (brokered by the USA, the UK and others) ending the civil war and paving the way for elections, Tayeb Saleh visited Sudan, met President Bashir and took part in a cultural festival.  Weeks before his death, he defended the Sudanese President against the double-standards of a flawed international order and criticised the Tel-Aviv embraced Darfur rebels.
Not to mention these significant details gives the wrong impression about T. Saleh’s political acumen.

Dr. Khalid Al Mubarak