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Mia Farrow has a daring plan to win the freedom of an ailing rebel leader from war-ravaged Darfur - she wants to take his place.
The activist actress offered to trade places with Suleiman Jamous, who needs a stomach operation but has been confined to a base in the troubled African desert nation of Sudan for more than a year.
"I am therefore offering ... to exchange my freedom for his," said Farrow in a letter to Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir. "[I know] he will apply his energies toward creating the just and lasting peace."
Farrow, 62, is a goodwill ambassador for UNICEF and has visited Darfur twice.
She was traveling in Africa and couldn't be reached for comment on her unusual proposal.
Jamous, a leader of the Sudanese Liberation Army, was originally airlifted from Darfur to the UN base in nearby Kadugli for medical treatment in June 2006.
But the leader needs a stomach biopsy, which cannot be performed at the camp, and believes he will be seized by government forces as soon as he leaves.
"Before his seizure, Mr. Jamous played a crucial role in seeking reconciliation," Farrow said.
There was no immediate response from the Sudan.
The Khartoum government has warned Jamous would be arrested if he leaves, but insisted it was open to talks on his release.
Farrow lived for years with filmmaker Woody Allen and has 14 biological and adopted children.
She and Allen bitterly split after he started dating her adopted daughter Soon-Yi Previn, whom he eventually married.
Mia's plea to Sudan: Free rebel & take me
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OK, before I get to her lunacy, can I point out that she and Woody Allen never lived together and that they, in fact, famously waved to each other from their respective flats on Central Park West and East?
Now, about her lunacy...it would be interesting to see this offer taken up.