Angelina Jolie reportedly offered to help arrest Joseph Kony

Call her Jolie. Angelina Jolie.

The “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” star was reportedly involved in a plan to honeytrap African warlord Joseph Kony, according to leaked emails from the International Criminal Court.

More than 40,000 ICC emails were leaked to French investigative website Mediapart and then shown to the Sunday Times of London. Among them were details from former chief prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo on his plan to trap Kony.

“Forget other celebrities, she is the one,” Moreno Ocampo, who left the position in 2012, wrote. “She loves to arrest Kony. She is ready. Probably Brad will go also.”

Kony, the leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army, was indicted in 2005 for war crimes and crimes against humanity by the ICC after kidnapping children and turning them into soldiers and sex slaves, but he has evaded capture.

There is currently a $5 million bounty on his head.

The plan was for Jolie and then-husband Brad Pitt to embed with US special forces troops in the Central African Republic, then invite Kony to a private dinner.

“Brad is being supportive. Let’s discuss logistics. Much love Xxx,” Jolie responded to Moreno Ocampo, according to the Sunday Times.

The ploy, however, fizzled out after Jolie stopped responding emails.

In 2012, Jolie, who had just been appointed Special Envoy to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, called for Kony’s arrest after a viral YouTube video from Invisible Children.

"I've been to Uganda and Congo and been to the International Criminal Court myself. He's the one we all want to see in jail, so I think it's great that more people are talking about it,” she said at an International Womens’ Day event in New York.

“He’s an extraordinarily horrible human being.”

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