and out of that came haroon and the sea of stories. which he actually helped me with. and i got one of the best pieces of literary-- that i ever had, where i showed him the first few chapters. i thought i better check that this was going to take. >> rose: he was about 9. >> he was about 11. and i said what do you think of it. he said yeah, it's good, dad. and there was a little unenthusiastic. i said good, it's good. he said yeah. me people might be bored. >> rose: and de like-- which character de like? >> he liked-- he liked, well, he liked the relationship between the father and son. >> rose: in fact this was a story of a boy who travels to the magic realm to find his father. >> well, that's in the first one he's trying to, his father has lost the gift of telling stories. >> rose: right. >> and he has to go back to the source, the sea of stories to try to restore it. in this one, the younger brother, in both cases the children have to save the father. the father is pretty useless. >> rose: that's true of both books. >> true of both books. >> rose: the theory of child

the current governor of the nuba mountains is haroon, also an indicted war criminal, because of his role in the darfur genocide. in fact, he was the one carrying out the genocide in the nuba mountains in the 1990's. these men make libya's gaddafi look like a choir boy. there is no reason why we should bomb libya while we do nothing in the nuba mountains. many seasoned reporters from "the new york times," "alzheimer's english" and "the independent" were with me in the nuba mountains, some with me during my time there. they brought back pictures, video that crab rate and prove natwar crimes are being committed right now against the nuba people. i've included some copies with my testimony and ask the -- corroborate and prove that war crimes are being committed right now against the nuba people. i've included some copies with my testimony. why do they treat them with a moral equivalency? based on the n.c.p. and what they're doing in darfur, in abyei, and the nuba mountains, it's clear how the international community is able to tolerate these killers for so long yet aggressively pursue other