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...Islamic forces and kicked the Anglo-Egyptians out of the Sudan, he unleashed a backlash. With the image of the heroic General Charles Gordon dying at Khartoum, the British public was ready to support a war to reclaim the lost territories. And when the political time was right, a British-Egyptian-Sudanese expedition led by the redoubtable Herbert Kitchener set out to do jus...

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...ment Government Official name: Republic of the Sudan Type: republic Capital: Khartoum Administrative divisions: 9 regions Legal system: based on Engli...

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...face Spit sorrow and disgrace, Having seen thine evil doom In Golgotha and Khartoum, And the brutes, the work of thine hands, Fill with injustice land...

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...her end of it was one Gordon, fighting for the dear life, in a town called Khartoum. There were columns of British troops in the desert, or in one of ... ...ack figure danced in the strong moonlight on the sand-bar and shouted that Khartoum the accursed one was dead,—was dead,—was dead,—that two steamers w... ... outside the city, and that of all their crews there remained not one; and Khartoum was dead,—was dead,—was dead! But Torpenhow took no heed. He was w...

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... at the time of the disaster in the desert, and bade farewell to Gordon in Khartoum before the investment. The colonel was abrupt and testy; Mrs. de C...

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............................................................... 503 GORDON OF KHARTOUM ..................................................................... ...ed, not lost, Through love to kindle in our souls the more. 504 GORDON OF KHARTOUM Of men he would have raised to light he fell: In soul he conquered...

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...he National Islamic Front in a coalition that had recently seized power in Khartoum. 30 Bin Ladin agreed to help Turabi in an ongoing war against Afri... ...urabi, Bin Ladin used his construction company to build a new highway from Khartoum to Port Sudan on the Red Sea coast. Meanwhile, al Qaeda finance of... ...mediary, Bin Ladin himself met with a senior Iraqi intelligence officer in Khartoum in late 1994 or early 1995. Bin Ladin is said to have asked for sp... ...in lost his base in Sudan. Ever since the Islamist regime came to power in Khartoum, the United States and other W estern gov- ernments had pressed it... ...passed a resolution criticizing their inaction and eventually sanc- tioned Khartoum in April 1996. 57 A clear signal to Bin Ladin that his days in Sud... ...ENEWAL IN AFGHANISTAN (1996–1998) Bin Ladin flew on a leased aircraft from Khartoum to Jalalabad, with a refuel- ing stopover in the United Arab Emira... ...ne was a tannery believed to belong to Bin Ladin.The other was al Shifa, a Khartoum pharma- ceutical plant, which intelligence reports said was manufa... ...nd a military expert in bomb making met with Bin Ladin at his farm outside Khartoum on July 30, 1996. The source claimed that Bin Ladin asked for and ... ...n,Feb.21, 2001 (transcript pp. 1282–1284). 61. Because the U.S. embassy in Khartoum had been closed in response to terrorist threats, the U.S.Ambas- s...

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...o prison for the blasphemy of offer- ing Bibles for sale in the streets of Khartoum. T urn to France, a country ten times more insular in its pre-occu...

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... for him. He had been waiting with painful interest for news of Gordon and Khartoum; and by great good fortune, a false report reached him that the ci...