In May of this year we looked back at what has become of Joseph Kony, whose name will forever be synonymous with a social media blitz back in 2012.

Unfortunately that was all to no avail, because the warlord remains on the loose, with one estimate putting the cost of the hunt for Kony at close to $800 million (R11 billion).

Numerous troops and efforts have failed, but here’s one rather odd plot that has just emerged. Turns out Angelina Jolie and then hubby Brad Pitt were on board with an attempt to ‘honey trap’ Kony, as Newsweek explains:

…Luis Moreno Ocampo, the former chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court, asked Jolie to take part in a scheme to lure Kony out of hiding in the Central African Republic.

The plot was outlined in emails obtained shared with the Times by French website Mediapart.

“Forget other celebrities, she is the one,” Moreno Ocampo wrote in one e-mail obtained by the publications. “She loves to arrest Kony. She is ready. Probably Brad will go also.”

The plot involved embedding Jolie and Pitt with a unit of U.S. Special Forces soldiers close to Kony’s stronghold. Ocampo [above] claimed that Jolie was keen to take part in the plot, and she suggested luring Kony to a private dinner where he would be arrested.

“Brad is being supportive. Let’s discuss logistics. Much love Xxx,” Jolie reportedly wrote to Ocampo.

American troops, he told her, “are eager to get Kony … [and] after meeting you, they will do it.”

So Angelina Jolie was going to lure Kony to a dinner where he would then be arrested – sounds a little like the Sean Penn / El Chapo story from January of last year (HERE).

There was to be no dinner, though, because it appears interest in the ‘honey trap’ soon dissipated and Jolie stopped responding to Ocampo’s emails.

To be honest, Ocampo might just have a hard-on for celebs:

According to the report, Jolie was not the only Hollywood star Ocampo tried recruit to take part in his investigations, and he attempted to persuade George Clooney to get involved in a plot to fly spy satellites over Libya, and Sean Penn to take part in an investigation into the Palestinian conflict.

What next, Tom Cruise heading some weird quasi-religion that fleeces its members of millions, or a reality TV star running the land of the free?

Ha, never.

[source:newsweek]