Angelina Jolie Involvement in Plot to Capture Warlord Joseph Kony Revealed
Angelina Jolie was part of a plot to capture real-life warlord Joseph Kony. Leaked sensitive details of documents from the International Criminal Court (ICC) revealed that the Hollywood superstar received an offer to help bait the Ugandan rebel leader.
Jolie as the key player in a plot to arrest Kony came from a report from Mediapart, a French investigative journal. It detailed emails between the actress and the ICC Chief Prosecutor from Argentina, Luis Moreno Ocampo.
The plan, hatched sometime in 2012, was for Jolie to invite Kony to dinner. From there, U.S. Special Forces would make his arrest.
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"She loves to arrest Kony. She is ready," Moreno Ocampo's e-mail revealed. It also cited that Jolie's then-husband Brad Pitt might also want to be part of the plan.
None of the plans were carried out, however, as Jolie no longer replied to Moreno Ocampo's subsequent e-mails and one of her assistants told the lawyer that the actress changed e-mail address. Neither Jolie nor Moreno Ocampo made statements about the leaked documents as of press time.
Moreno Ocampo, who won just one ICC case in nine years, also reportedly recruited George Clooney and Sean Penn for other cases. But like Jolie, he did not have much success convincing the Hollywood stars.
The news comes amid reports that Moreno Ocampo is in hot water for his consultancy work with Hassan Tatanaki, a businessman from Libya with ties to the dictator Col. Muammer Gaddafi. Moreno Ocampo claims someone is bent on tarnishing his reputation.
Meanwhile, Kony has $5 million bounty for his arrest and he remains in hiding. The Ugandan rebel leader is wanted for his war crimes that resulted in the deaths of 100,000 people and displacement of two million locals from their homes.
According to the New York Times, the search and subsequent arrest of Kony ended this year as the Uganda army perceived that Kony is no longer a threat. The Uganda People's Defense Force estimated that Kony has 100 soldiers left in the guerilla group Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) from an original count of 3,000.
