Minni Minawi bungles DC

I saw a friend over the weekend who works for a non-profit organization that is active in Sudan. According to him, Minawi completely bungled his visit to DC - among other things, he blew off a meeting/press conference at the Holocaust Museum that was supposed to bring attention to the genocide in Darfur (illustrating, once again, that protecting his people is not what Minawi is all about).

And there had been plans on this side of the ocean to funnel money to Minawi's SLM to "promote democracy" or something like that, because Minawi and the SLA had been chosen to play the role of good guys in this fight - because as we all know from watching old Westerns, we much prefer to think of conflicts as good vs. evil, instead of bad guys vs. bad guys. But Minawi bungled it, so no money for him.

Can't say I'm sorry.