America championed a bloodthirsty torturer to fight the original war on terror. Now, he is finally being brought to justice.
By Michael Bronner
Foreign Policy - January/February 2014
On the last night of november 1990, the
city of N’Djamena, the capital of Chad, was on edge. President Hissène
Habré, who had seized control of the country in a coup eight years
earlier, was in power -- but the vise was closing.
Rebels
were converging on the city in Toyota pickup trucks mounted with machine
guns and packed with fighters -- turbaned against the dust and sand,
armed to the teeth, and screaming pedal-to-the-floor across the desert.
Supplied and funded by Libya, they had crossed into Chad from their camp
on the Sudanese border some 700 miles to the east, led by Habré’s
former chief military advisor, Idriss Déby.
It was an odd time, then, for a diplomatic dinner party.
The
gathering was a last-minute affair organized by the wealthy and
well-connected Lebanese consul at the urgent personal request of a key
minister in Habré’s cabinet. The presence of some two dozen Chadian
elites, French businessmen, and notable expats was really just a ruse to
invite the one guest who really mattered: Col. David G. Foulds, the
U.S. defense attaché.
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