Profile in Darfur Heroism, courage, humanity: "...During my last night in the ghost house in El Fasher [Darfur], I endured my longest interrogation at the hands of an army colonel named Abdallah. He grilled me for nearly six hours, bludgeoning me robotically with accusations of espionage, absurd charges that I knew even he didn't believe. At 1 a.m. he finally played the good cop, and asked if I had any questions of my own. I did. I wanted to know the fate of Darfur.
"More war [for Darfur]," he said without hesitation. He stared hard down at his desk.
After days of lies and mind games, these were the first honest words that escaped his lips." psalopek@tribune.com
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Jailed for 34 days, Tribune reporter writes: What I saw in Darfur Chicago Tribune Chicago Tribune/National Geographic journalist Paul Salopek was captured and held by various groups in Sudan
Jailed for 34 days, Tribune reporter writes: What I saw in Darfur Humanitarian catastrophe poised to grow worse in weeks ahead By Paul SalopekTribune foreign correspondentPublished October 8, 2006
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