From today's Times, describing the "charm offensive" by Omar Hassan al-Bashir who is expected to be indicted soon on charges of genocide:

The minute he stepped off the plane here, a white dove was thrust into his hands.

Mr. Bashir threw the bird toward the sky. It flapped its wings a few times, but did not really fly.

No bother. Mr. Bashir beamed and strutted down the runway.

Am I to take it from this glancing reference that the dove that was thrown towards the sky then plummeted back to the earth, perhaps to it's death?

Tags: Darfur, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, Sudan

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