Brutality, heroism and the imperial sideshow
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,1644955,00.html
Michael Asher brings Sudan's history to vivid life in Khartoum, says
Kevin Rushby
Saturday November 19, 2005
The Guardian
Khartoum: The Ultimate Imperial Adventure
by Michael Asher
480pp, Viking, =A325
In 1994 a Saudi Arabian multimillionaire decided to move house.
Eschewing the pleasures of Belgravia, Geneva or the Hamptons, he chose
Khartoum, the dilapidated and over-heated shanty-capital that sits at
the confluence of the Blue and White Niles. An unusual choice, but then
Osama bin Laden is an unusual multimillionaire and his reasons were
tainted by his dreams of an Islamic paradise on earth.
Sudan
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/88514884588c6fdd
Imperialism
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/5caa8368cb2e7b29
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