You Article is Nonsense and Why isn't it on the Website?
on January 15, 2009 11:07 AM
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On Monday Hassan al Turabi,
once the Islamist power behind the Sudanese president, gave interviews to the BBC World Service, Reuters and AFP calling for
Omar al Bashir to give himself up to the International Criminal Court to prevent further international isolation of Sudan. In doing so he was the first opposition leader to break ranks and say what many people are thinking. You can imagine his family's consternation at this turn of events. Sudan's very own Tony Benn - radical firebrand reinvented as cuddly grandfatherly conscience of the nation - has been in and out of prison ever since falling out with Bashir. Relatives were immediately telling anyone who would listen that the interview was 2hr long and a handful of quotes had been taken out of context, and please don't arrest him etc etc. A day later things took an even more curious turn. Now relatives were complaining that the BBC hadn't put the interview on its website. Then late Wednesday night, the inevitable...
as AFP reports...Sudanese security officers arrested iconic opposition leader Hassan al-Turabi on Wednesday two days after he urged the head of state to surrender to the International Criminal Court, family and staff said.
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