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                    Sundan's Turabi Buried Outside Khartoum

   by VOA News

   Prominent Sudanese politician Hassan al-Turabi was buried Sunday in a
   cemetery east of the capital, Khartoum, following a funeral attended by
   thousands of mourners.

   Turabi died Saturday of a heart attack at the age of 84.

   He once played a major role in the 1989 coup that brought President
   Omar al-Bashir to power.

   However, the two close allies later became bitter foes, and Turabi
   became the only Sudanese politician to support a warrant for Bashir's
   arrest by the [1]International Criminal Court on charges of war crimes.

   Turabi also at one time hosted al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden,
   although the group was later expelled from Sudan under U.S. pressure in
   1996. Turabi, who supported radical Islam in the 1990s, remade himself
   as a mainstream politician.

   He was jailed several times after a power struggle and split with
   Bashir in 1999.
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References

   1. https://www.icc-cpi.int/en_menus/icc/Pages/default.aspx
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