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Africa: East
Al-Bashir intends to release al-Turabi
2003-08-08
The Sudanese al-Sahafa daily said yesterday that the Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir intends to release the Islamic opposition member Hassan al-Turabi who has been jailed since more than two years.
That's too bad...
Al-Bashir said "he will not stay there in prison for ever.. There were conditions that justified al-Turabi's detention and he will be released when such conditions pass," giving no further explanations. On the other hand, the leader of the opposition al-Haditha ( recent) forces movement, al-Haj Warak, announced that al-Bashir vowed yesterday to make national dialogue with all political parties. He said that al-Bashir considered that differences between the Sudanese political parties do not constitute "but simple problem that can be eliminated by dialogue." He added that al-Bashir accepted to "supervise the dialogue personally." He called on "all pro and opposition parties to a general meeting during which various matters will be discussed."
Posted by:Fred Pruitt

#3  Aye - and Longshanks did the same with the Scottish, though he hung them from the rafters. Young William Wallace was impressed enough to need therapy, but there was none to be had. So he went away, learned Latin, grew up and came back to use the weirding way on the English. I saw it in a movie so it's very very true.
Posted by: ·com   2003-8-8 1:41:24 PM  

#2  Makes me think of Khun Borom of Laos. He called all his rivals to a nice dinner to make peace, then decdied, as long as he had them all in one place, what the heck? Just poison the lot of them and save time...
Posted by: Fred   2003-8-8 11:13:54 AM  

#1  "He called on "all pro and opposition parties to a general meeting during which various matters will be discussed"

makes me think of Michael Corleone calling the families together to talk peace before Tattaglia, Barzini, Sollozo and Tessio get whacked, but that could just be wishful thinking....
Posted by: Frank G   2003-8-8 10:19:15 AM  

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