Actress part of plan to arrest Kony, say leaked emails

ANGELINA Jolie offered to act as a “honeytrap” in a secret plan to help snare a notorious African warlord, leaked documents revealed yesterday claimed.

The actress was said to have hatched a plot with the International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor to help catch Ugandan guerilla leader Joseph Kony, then the focus of a US-led capture-or-kill mission.

Leaked emails from Luis Moreno Ocampo suggest the campaigning actress was prepared to act as bait to draw out Africa’s most wanted man.

Jolie, a tireless campaigner for humanitarian causes, “has the idea to invite Kony to dinner and arrest him”, wrote the Argentinian lawyer, who was ICC chief prosecutor in The Hague for nine years.

He hoped that Jolie’s now estranged husband Brad Pitt, 53, would also be part of the elaborate plan, with the pair embedded in Uganda with US troops near to a Kony stronghold.

Moreno Ocampo, 65, wrote to Jolie in 2012, saying: “Apparently you can be embedded with the special forces that are chasing Kony. Can Brad go with you?”

Jolie replied: “Brad is being supportive. Let’s discuss logistics. Much love Xxx.”

In another leaked email, the lawyer wrote: “Forget other celebrities, she is the one. She loves to arrest Kony. She is ready. Probably Brad will go also.”

The documents do not reveal what stopped the plan going ahead.

Kony was indicted by the ICC in 2005 on allegations including murder, rape and enslavement.

A father to more than 60 children, with as many wives, he has used child soldiers in his Lord’s Resistance Army to keep Africa’s longest battle raging since 1987.

He is said to have kidnapped more than 20,000 children and turned them into a fighting force.

In 2012, a video by pressure group Invisible Children went viral, thrusting the 56-year-old into the limelight once again as it quickly gained more than 100million views.

His troops are now said to number fewer than 100 and operations to find him have been called off.

Moreno Ocampo is said to have also tried to get Sean Penn on board with another project and even asked George Clooney to spy on Colonel Gaddafi’s regime.

Moreno Ocampo claimed he had been the victim of a cyber attack, from which “out of context information” had been leaked by those opposed to his work.

Jolie did not respond to requests for comment.