| …more formally Lieutenant General Ibrahim Shams al-Din or Shams al-Din al-Kabbashi — though as he is said to be legally illegitimate as well as a vicious bastard, nobody is quite sure what he is entitled to be called. A dear friend of National Congress Party (NCP) frontman Nafi ali Nafi the butcher (they go in for imaginative names over there), the current false nose and mustache of the old National Islamic Front, the good general currently amuses himself by masquerading as a moderate favoured by Iran. His history, however, shows otherwise: charter member of the military Council of Forty that ruled Sudan following the 1989 coup, he was given the National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) to run, which he used to torture dissidents and ethnic minority leaders both in the north and south with equal enthusiasm… |
on the Al-Faw front.