With China and Russia abstaining, the Security Council approved sanctions on four people responsible for violating the terms of a March 2005 resolution that called on all sides to cease hostilities in Darfur. As was expected, only one Sudanese government official is among these four.

Maggie Farley of the Los Angeles Times says it all:

The United States, while pushing for a longer sanctions list, lobbied quietly behind the scenes to ensure that one of Washington's key sources on terrorism, Sudanese intelligence chief Salah Abdallah Gosh, stayed off the list.

Meanwhile, any Bolton Watch readers interested in an article that takes on Lawrence Kaplan’s