Zoellick Keeps His Head

Zoellick Keeps His Head

By Al Kamen

Wednesday, April 20, 2005; Page A23

Deputy Secretary of State Robert B. Zoellick went to Khartoum last week to prod the Sudanese government to stop the genocide in Darfur. But a top Sudanese government official apparently had his own diplomatic message about westerners getting mixed up in Sudan's affairs.

So when Zoellick, a history buff, went to the presidential palace in Khartoum, the first vice president, Ali Uthman Muhammad Taha (the real power in the country), couldn't resist showing him the stairwell where "Gordon of Khartoum" was killed in 1885.



General Charles George Gordon (played by Charlton Heston in the 1966 epic "Khartoum") was a British hero who was sent there with almost no troops (being, after all, such a military hero) to quell a revolt and to rescue isolated garrisons but became cut off in Khartoum. After a 10-month siege, the town fell, and he was killed -- and his head was paraded on a spike through the streets.

Nothing if not subtle.

كوستاوي ازيك
قريت قبل فتره كتاب ( فاتنة المهدي ) وهو روايه تاريخيه لكاتب انجليزي ,, ذكر فيها ان قاتل غردون هو طه شاهين من اهالي دنقلا ,, وهي روايه مطابقة لما سمعته من جدتي رحمها الله لان طه شاهين هذا هو عمها ,, شفت يا نصر الدين الناس ديل سرقوا حتى تاريخنا وبقو يخوفو بيهو الناس ,, بعدين المفارقة الغريبه انو علي عثمان هو العمل كدا ,

الأخ كوستاوي:

Quote: So when Zoellick, a history buff, went to the presidential palace in Khartoum, the first vice president, Ali Uthman Muhammad Taha (the real power in the country), couldn't resist showing him the stairwell where "Gordon of Khartoum" was killed in 1885

هل فقد علي عثمان عقله؟ أم فعلا نوي لجر السودان كله الي الهاوية لتيقنه بعدم نجاته؟
لو كان جادا فقد ضمن لقب كبير الجنجويد.
و لو أراد أن يمزح و "يخفف دمه" فقد أخطأ خطأءا قاتلا This is a deadly black comedy

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