Shattered Dreams of Ali Osman Taha
In 2006, Ali Osman Taha, the second man in Sudan dictatorship hierarchy, in a fit of anger, flew to Turkey and remained there for weeks on a self-exile, but mediators managed to bury the hatchet and brought him home. In the last couple of years, illness took its toll on him, but it is not the determinant factor in his second infinite departure.
For the last decade, he was the brain behind the regime; he ruled by proxy and everybody was at his disposal. However, like all “Islam-politic-users,” his ambition has no boundaries, he came from so little and become larger than life, but it’s all over now, so the story goes.
In most cultures, people who have ambitions and lack the means to realize them, look for the right people to uplift them; individuals who are willing to permit them to climb on their shoulders, like creeping plants on trees, for a quid pro quo.
Early in his life, he approached Dr. Hassan Turabi, a man who knows how to cease the moment and capture the spotlight; a lecturer with a record of academic brilliance, a lawyer turned politician and married into a pedigree of prestige and power.
Turabi needed young followers who would idolize him. Ali was a law student and needed a mentor and a role model. The needs were mutual. So he became his disciple. A loyal disciple, or so Turabi thought.
He learned from Turabi the Muslim brotherhood’s ways (the Nixon and Kissinger’s doctrine): that politics is open season (everything is permissible), the ends justify the means, and that truthfulness is foolishness and lying is a more effective strategy.
In the beginning, Ali was a liaison between Turabi and Bashir, Sudan cut-throat dictator. The trio that wreaked havoc across the globe. Their evil span from the US to Afghanistan, Algeria, Tunisia, the Philippines, Iraq, Kuwait, Somalia, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Chad, Kenya, Egypt and Uganda. Not to mention the internal mayhem they inflicted upon their own people from the South to the Nuba Mountains, the Blue Nile and their brutal suppression of army mutinies and civil disobedience and eventually, their masterpiece of atrocity - Darfur
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