(CNN) -- Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, facing an international arrest warrant, is paying the price for pandering to the West, al Qaeda's second-in-command said in an audio statement released Tuesday. 

Ayman al-Zawahiri, seen here in 2007, said Tuesday the Sudanese president pandered to the West. 

"I am not defending Omar al-Bashir or his regime, nor am I defending what it has done in Darfur and elsewhere," Ayman al-Zawahiri said in the statement released by al Qaeda's production company, as-Sahab Media. 

But, he said, "the issue isn't one of Darfur and solving its problems; the issue is one of making excuses for more foreign interference in the Muslims' countries in the framework of the contemporary Zionist Crusade." 

The warrant issued by the International Criminal Court earlier this month accuses al-Bashir of war crimes and crimes against humanity, charges he denies. In response, Sudan ordered 13 international aid groups to leave the country, groups that the United Nations says provide roughly half the assistance delivered in Darfur. 

"The Bashir regime is reaping what it sowed," al-Zawahiri said. "For many long years, it continued to back down and backtrack in front of American Crusader pressure." 

He further accused Sudan of expelling members of the mujahedeen who had sought refuge there, particularly Osama bin Laden, and declaring "in an audacious lie that they had left voluntarily, then attempting to beg payment for that from the Saudi regime and the Americans." 

Al-Zawahiri asked, "Why hasn't the United Nations moved to protect the Palestinians in Gaza from Israeli barbarity and criminality, while it pretends to cry over the suffering of the people of Darfur? Why hasn't the United Nations and the international community intervened to lift the siege from Gaza, while it pretends to cry over the people of Darfur being deprived of relief and aid?"  What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Who issued a warrant?
2. When?
3. Who is named in the warrant?
4. What is he accused of?
5. Anything else officially in the document?
6. Does he agree with the charges?
7. What did Sudan do in response?
8. How much aid do these groups provide in Darfur?
9. What is al-Qaeda's production company called?
10. Who is second in command at al-Qaeda?
11. What does he accuse Sudan of?
12. Anything else?
13. anyone in particular?
14. Who does he want the UN to protect?
15. From what?
16. Is the arrest warrant just a local warrant?
17. What kind is it?
Answer: 1. the International Criminal Court
2. earlier in the month
3. Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir
4. pandering to the West
5. war crimes and crimes against humanity
6. no
7. he ordered 13 international aid groups to leave the country
8. roughly half
9. as-Sahab Media
10. Ayman al-Zawahiri
11. pandering to the West.
12. expelling members of the mujahedeen who had sought refuge there
13. Osama bin Laden
14. the Palestinians in Gaza
15. Israeli barbarity and criminality
16. no
17. an international arrest warrant

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, (; ; born 2 March 1931) is a former Soviet statesman. He was the eighth and last leader of the Soviet Union, having been General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991. He was the country's head of state from 1988 until 1991 (titled as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet from 1988 to 1989, as Chairman of the from 1989 to 1990, and as Soviet Union]] from 1990 to 1991). 

Gorbachev was born in Stavropol Krai in 1931 into a peasant Ukrainian–Russian family, and in his teens, operated combine harvesters on collective farms. He graduated from Moscow State University in 1955 with a degree in law. While he was at the university, he joined the Communist Party, and soon became very active within it. In 1970, he was appointed the First Party Secretary of the Stavropol Regional Committee, First Secretary to the Supreme Soviet in 1974, and appointed a candidate member of the Politburo in 1979. Within three years of the death of Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, following the brief "interregna" of Andropov and Chernenko, Gorbachev was elected general secretary by the Politburo in 1985. Before he reached the post, he had occasionally been mentioned in Western newspapers as a likely next leader and a man of the younger generation at the top level. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Who was head of state in the Soviet Union in 1990?
2. What year was he born?
3. Where?
4. Was his family wealthy?
5. What kind of work did they do?
6. Where did he join the Communist Party?
7. Which university?
8. What did he study there?
9. When did he graduate?
10. When was he elected general secretary by Politburo?
Answer: 1. Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
2. 1931
3. Stavropol Krai
4. No
5. Peasants
6. university
7. Moscow State University
8. law
9. 1955
10. 1985

CHAPTER XVIII 

The "Doll's House" was a success. Mrs. Schoville ecstasized over it in terms so immeasurable, so unqualifiable, that Jacob Welse, standing near, bent a glittering gaze upon her plump white throat and unconsciously clutched and closed his hand on an invisible windpipe. Dave Harney proclaimed its excellence effusively, though he questioned the soundness of Nora's philosophy and swore by his Puritan gods that Torvald was the longest-eared Jack in two hemispheres. Even Miss Mortimer, antagonistic as she was to the whole school, conceded that the players had redeemed it; while Matt McCarthy announced that he didn't blame Nora darlin' the least bit, though he told the Gold Commissioner privately that a song or so and a skirt dance wouldn't have hurt the performance. 

"Iv course the Nora girl was right," he insisted to Harney, both of whom were walking on the heels of Frona and St. Vincent. "I'd be seein'--" 

"Rubber--" 

"Rubber yer gran'mother!" Matt wrathfully exclaimed. 

"Ez I was sayin'," Harney continued, imperturbably, "rubber boots is goin' to go sky-high 'bout the time of wash-up. Three ounces the pair, an' you kin put your chips on that for a high card. You kin gather 'em in now for an ounce a pair and clear two on the deal. A cinch, Matt, a dead open an' shut." 

"The devil take you an' yer cinches! It's Nora darlin' I have in me mind the while." 

They bade good-by to Frona and St. Vincent and went off disputing under the stars in the direction of the Opera House.  What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Who was extremely happy?
2. What did Jacob pretend to choke?
3. What was Dave's religion?
4. Who was the longest-eared Jack?
5. Was the play a success?
6. What did Miss Mortimer think of the actors?
7. Who were Matt and Harney following?
8. Where did they go next?
9. What chapter is this?
10. Did Matt blame Nora?
Answer:
1. Mrs. Schoville
2. Her throat
3. Puritan
4. Torvald.
5. Yes
6. They had redeemed the play.
7. Frona and St. Vincent.
8. Opera House
9. 18
10. No