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.....The ICC documents obtained by TIME show a significant portion of this new investigation is based on data from the Satellite Sentinel Project, a network of private spy satellites and analysts organized by George Clooney in partnership with John Prendergast's Enough Project. The satellites have been snapping pictures of northern Sudan since December of last year. "We are the antigenocide paparazzi," Clooney told TIME then.

Movie star George Clooney was led away in handcuffs after storming the Sudanese Embassy protesting the actions of the country's president Omar Al-Bashir, an alleged war criminal. Clooney made the rounds in Washington this week, hoping his superstar wattage will help shine a light on the situation in Sudan. The actor testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and held private meetings with the Secretary of State and President Obama about the African nation's dire humanitarian situation and the Obama administration's policy. He led a protest today outside of Sudan's embassy calling on Omar Al-Bashir, an alleged war-criminal, to stop...

(Note: In full house session last week, the Committee on International Relations presented a report on the genocide crisis in Sudan. The committee unanimously passed a resolution urging President Bush to impose additional sanctions on Sudanese leaders. -TR)Transcript from the session: Committee on International Relations U.S. House of Representatives Washington, D.C. 20515-0128John Prendergast Special Advisor to the President of the International Crisis Group "Ethnic Cleansing in Darfur: A New Front Opens in Sudan's Bloody War" May 6, 2004 House Committee on International Relations Thank you, Mr Chairman, for the invitation to testify at this hearing, and for the Committee's unflagging...