“America incarnates the devil for Muslims. When I say Muslims, I mean all the Muslims in the world.”
–Hassan al-Turabi, Saddam Hussein’s close ally, Osama bin Laden’s friend and one-time benefactor, as quoted in an interview with the Associated Press (1997)
–Hassan al-Turabi, Saddam Hussein’s close ally, Osama bin Laden’s friend and one-time benefactor, as quoted in an interview with the Associated Press (1997)
WHEN SECRETARY OF STATE CONDOLEEZZA RICE visited Sudan last week, much of the press’s coverage focused on the rough treatment her senior advisors and NBC’s Andrea Mitchell, who was among the reporters traveling with the Secretary, received. Mitchell had questioned the Sudanese president, Omar el-Bashir, about his government’s role in the current battle raging in Darfur, where an ongoing humanitarian crisis has drawn considerable attention. For this, she received Khartoum’s version of hospitality: She was roughed up by Bashir’s henchmen.
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