Actress Mia Farrow has offered to exchange her freedom for the safe passage out of Darfur of an ailing rebel leader. Suleiman Jamous, a moderate who has been a key link between Darfur rebels and aid workers in the war-torn Sudanese region, is suffering from abdominal problems and needs to leave the country for further medical care. Farrow, a UNICEF goodwill ambassador who has traveled to Darfur, wrote a letter to Sudan’s president and posted it on her on her website. “As you are undoubtedly aware,” she wrote, “Mr. Jamous is in need of a medical procedure that cannot be carried out in Kadugli. I am therefore offering to take Mr. Jamous’s place, to exchange my freedom for his in the knowledge of his importance to the civilians of Darfur and in the conviction that he will apply his energies toward creating the just and lasting peace that the Sudanese people deserve and hope for.” [You stopped reading somewhere around the word “conviction,” didn’t you?]

A spokesperson for UNICEF said the organization was unaware that Farrow had written the letter to the president under her UNICEF goodwill ambassador title, and was reserving comment until it had consulted her. We’re thinking Farrow should just adopt the rebel leader. You know she wants to. (Source; AP photo; t/y Eduardo)