Joseph Kony has become newly infamous in the United States since a viral video focused on his crimes, spotlighting the notorious Ugandan militia leader for kidnapping children and forcing them to serve as soldiers.

In the controversial video, a father describes Kony to his son as a “bad guy” who must be stopped.

Who else is wanted by the International Criminal Court? Here are the other men on the list:

Ahmed Haroun

Haroun allegedly recruited and armed some of the notorious militias known as janjaweed in the Darfur region of Sudan while working at the Interior Ministry. The militias are known to have killed, raped and tortured civilians. Last year, Haroun was elected governor of the Sudanese state of South Kordofan in an election opponents said was rigged. Haroun has said he did nothing illegal in Darfur.

Ali Kushayb

Kushayb was alleged to be one of the most senior leaders in the janjaweed. The warrant for his arrest five years ago says he personally participated in murder and rapes of civilians in 2003 and 2004 in Darfur. He is also accused of attacking civilians and forcing thousands of people out of their homes.

Abdel Raheem Muhammad Hussein

Hussein is Sudan’s defense minister. He is accused of indirectly perpetrating a long list of crimes in Darfur, including murder, rape, inhumane acts and torture. A warrant for his arrest was issued last week. The Sudanese government said the court decision didn’t matter to them, Al Jazeera reported.

Bosco Ntaganda

Ntaganda, an army general in the Democratic Republic of Congo, used to be a rebel leader. He is wanted for forcing children younger than 15 to fight in 2002 and 2003. Besides those ICC charges, Ntaganda has also been accused of overseeing two massacres that killed nearly 1,000 civilians. He lives openly in  eastern Congo.

Abdullah Senussi

Senussi was the brother-in-law and security chief of the late Libyan leader Moammar Kadafi. He is wanted as an “indirect perpetator” of murder and persecution. Reports of his capture in November were later disputed by the International Criminal Court chief prosecutor.

Okot Odhiambo

Odhiambo is alleged to be a senior leader in the notorious militia led by Joseph Kony, the Lord’s Resistance Army. He is wanted for murder, enslavement, leading attacks against civilians and forcing children to enlist. His warrant says other commanders called him “the one who killed the most.” Three years ago, he said he was defecting to get safe passage to Uganda, but only if he was given a guarantee that he would not be turned over to the international court, Agence France-Presse reported.

Dominic Ongwen

Ongwen is alleged to be a Lord’s Resistance Army brigade commander. He has been accused of crimes that include murder, intentionally directing an attack against civilians and “inhumane acts of inflicting serious bodily injury and suffering.” Ongwen was reportedly abducted when he was a boy. “He was forced to do those crimes,” his former caregiver argued in a 2007 documentary.

Source: LA Times.

Just when you thought Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow was down; like a phoenix, he rises from the ashes.

Tebow and the Broncos were last seen Saturday night walking off the field after getting shellacked by Tom Brady and the New England Patriots.

The former Florida Gators quarterback couldn’t muster any offense in the game and was outclassed on the field by Brady.

But, Tebow has been a ratings draw for CBS and now, the network wants to get Tebow in the studio this Sunday for the AFC Championship game.

According to USAToday.com, CBS Sports chairman Sean McManus said CBS has had conversations with Tebow’s people and are waiting to hear back from the popular quarterback.

McManus said CBS is hoping to hear from Tebow by midweek.

Source: CBS Miami.

My Two Cents: Are you really going to vote for this Federal Reserve insider/defender who also wanted to have Kissinger in his cabinet?! Could you imagine if this guy won and had Kissinger and Greenspan (his fav Fed chairman) on his team? End Two Cents.

*Taken from the Huffington Post. Video at link.

GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain asked 88-year-old Henry Kissinger to serve in his hypothetical administration as secretary of state, he told reporters in a recent interview. Kissinger said thanks, but no thanks.

In an editorial interview with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that has provided potentially damaging highlights in the form of Cain’s controversial support for public workers’ collective bargaining rights and his extensive bumbling on a question about U.S. foreign policy in Libya, the former Godfather’s Pizza CEO also answered questions about how he’d fill his administration if he were to win the presidency.

“Dr. Kissinger turned my offer down to be secretary of state. He said he’s perfectly happy doing what he’s doing,” Cain said, before rattling off some other names that he’d been mulling as potential cabinet picks. Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton, and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) were among the names he listed, though he wouldn’t clarify which posts he’d like them to fill.

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*Taken from ABC News. Video at link.

U.S. officials are analyzing one million pages of data from the trove found in Osama bin Laden’s compound during the raid that killed him, and say they have learned more in the past ten days than in the past 10 years.

Among the things they’ve learned is that the al Qaeda leader wanted to find a way to kill President Obama.

Meanwhile, the first revenge attack for the bin Laden raid has killed 80 outside a military training center in Pakistan, and President Obama has acknowledged that threats against his own grandmother from another al Qaeda group are being closely monitored.

In the Kenyan village where she lives, the president’s 88-year-old step-grandmother, Sarah Obama, shrugged off death threats against her from an al Qaeda affiliate in East Africa called al Shabaab.

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*Taken from the Guardian.

The WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, is tonight facing growing legal problems around the world, with the US announcing that it was investigating whether he had violated its espionage laws.

Assange’s details were also added to Interpol’s worldwide wanted list. Dated 30 November, the entry reads: “sex crimes” and says the warrant has been issued by the international public prosecution office in Gothenburg, Sweden. “If you have any information contact your national or local police.” It reads: “Wanted: Assange, Julian Paul,” and gives his birthplace as Townsville, Australia.

Friends said earlier that Assange was in a buoyant mood, however, despite the palpable fury emanating from Washington over the decision by WikiLeaks to start publishing more than a quarter of a million mainly classified US cables. He was said to be at a secret location somewhere outside London, along with fellow hackers and WikiLeaks enthusiasts.

In contrast to previous WikiLeaks releases, Assange has, on this occasion, kept a relatively low profile. His attempt to give an interview to Sky News via Skype was thwarted today by a faulty internet connection.

But he was able to give an interview to Time magazine in which he called for Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, to resign. “She should resign, if it can be shown that she was responsible for ordering US diplomatic figures to engage in espionage in the United Nations, in violation of the international covenants to which the US has signed up. Yes, she should resign over that,” he said.

Assange’s reluctance to emerge in public is understandable. It comes amid a rapid narrowing of his options. Several countries are currently either taking – or actively considering – aggressive legal moves against him. This lengthening list includes Sweden, Australia and now the US – but so far as can be made out, not Britain.

The US attorney general, Eric Holder, announced yesterday that the justice department and Pentagon are conducting “an active, ongoing criminal investigation” into the latest Assange-facilitated leak under Washington’s Espionage Act.

It was not immediately clear whether Holder was referring to Bradley Manning, the dissident US private suspected of being the original source of the leak, or Assange. The inquiry by US federal authorities is made tricky by Assange’s citizenship – he is Australian – and the antediluvian nature of the law’s pre-internet-era 1917 statutes.

According to the Washington Post, no charges against anyone from WikiLeaks are imminent. But asked how the US could prosecute Assange, a non-US citizen, Holder struck an ominous note. “Let me be clear. This is not sabre-rattling,” he said, vowing to swiftly “close the gaps” in current US legislation.

But Assange’s most pressing headache is Sweden. Swedish prosecutors have issued an international and European arrest warrant (EAW) for him in connection with rape allegations, and the warrant has been upheld by a Swedish appeal court.

Assange strongly denies any wrongdoing but admits having unprotected but consensual encounters with two women during a visit to Sweden in August.

Mark Stephens, his London-based lawyer, has described the allegations as “false and without basis”, adding that they amount to persecution as part of a cynical smear campaign.

Nonetheless, the Swedes appear determined to force Assange back to Sweden for questioning. Stockholm’s director of public prosecutions, Marianne Ny, said last month: “So far, we have not been able to meet with him to accomplish the interrogation.”

Assange contests this too. But if he declines to return to Sweden voluntarily, and the UK decides to enforce Sweden’s arrest warrant, things may get tricky. Some friends believe Assange’s best strategy is not to go to ground but to get on a plane to Sweden and face down his accusers.

Stephens, moreover, says that the Swedish attempts to extradite Assange have no legal force. So far he has not been charged, Stephens says – an essential precondition for a valid European arrest warrant.

Under the EAW scheme, which allows for fast-tracked extradition between EU member states, a warrant must indicate a formal charge in order to be validated, and must be served on the person accused.

“Julian Assange has never been charged by Swedish prosecutors. He is formally wanted as a witness,” Stephens told the Guardian today.

“All we have is an English translation of what’s being reported in the media. The Swedish authorities have not met their obligations under domestic and European law to communicate the nature of the allegations against him in a language that he understands, and the evidence against him.”

Assange’s legal team are challenging the warrant in Sweden’s supreme court. They are optimistic: a previous appeal was partially successful in limiting the grounds on which the warrant was issued.

Today a spokesman for Britain’s Serious Organised Crime Agency, which is responsible for validating extradition requests, would not confirm or deny receipt of a European arrest warrant for Assange’s extradition.

Assange has previously suggested he might find sanctuary in Switzerland. More promising perhaps is Ecuador, whose leftist government unexpectedly offered him asylum on Monday.

“We are ready to give him residence in Ecuador, with no problems and no conditions,” Ecuador’s foreign minister, Kintto Lucas, said.

At the very least, Ecuador could offer Assange a new passport. He might need one. Yesterday Australia’s attorney general, Robert McClelland, said Australian police were also investigating whether any Australian laws had been broken by the latest WikiLeaks release.

In reality, Assange’s predicament may not be as hopeless as it seems. The US would be hard pressed to make charges against him stick, experts suggest.

“There have been so few cases under the Espionage Act, you can put them on one hand,” said David Banisar, senior legal counsel for the campaigning group Article 19 and an expert on free speech in the US. “There is the practical problem that most of the information published by WikiLeaks wasn’t secret. Then there is the debate about whether the documents were properly classified – there are detailed rules in the US about what can and cannot be classified.”