Posted on 03/30/2004 11:37:08 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) - Security police detained Sudan's leading Islamic opposition leader Hassan Turabi early Wednesday, his wife said.
Wisal el-Mahdi told The Associated Press that a large squad of police came to their Khartoum home at about 1:30 a.m. local time and arrested her husband, saying he was "was wanted by the authorities."
The arrest came days after the government detained members of Turabi's Popular National Congress and some military officers in connection with an alleged plot to overthrow the government of President Omar el-Bashir.
"We were expecting this arrest" because of the alleged coup attempt, Wisal el-Mahdi said.
Turabi was once a close ally of el-Bashir and the main ideologue of the Islamic fundamentalist government set up after el-Bashir seized power in 1989. But the two men fell out in 1999 when el-Bashir accused Turabi, then the speaker of parliament, of trying to grab power and stripped him of his position.
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The pressure is on. This is no time to quit. Don't let Kerry be elected and screw things up.
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