As the NIF adds a peace offensive (headed by hardliner Ghazi Salah el Din el Atabani) to its charm offensive (AC Vol 40 No 13) European governments don't want to rock the boat...
(Simultaneously Khartoum's powerful Culture and Information Minister NIF stalwart Ghazi Salah el Din el Atabani visited Asmara with a 'security delegation' staying in the same hotel we gather as Mubarek Abdullahi)...
Ghazi Salah el Din el Atabani: Culture & Information Minister; medical doctor; Libyan-trained tank driver; in 1976 anti-Nimeiri attack by National Front (MB-Umma-DUP alliance) he and Mahdi Ibrahim held off army at Communications building; ex-State Foreign Minister under Ali Osman; married to Mubarek Abdullahi el Fadil's sister-in-law; Hassan Osman Dahawi: Major General; overall security chief...
After the bombardment Sudan's Culture and Information Minister Ghazi Salah el Din el Atabani angrily told the BBC: ‘The United States is such a hateful country'...
El Tayeb Ibrahim Mohamed Kheir (Tayeb ‘Sikha') took the vital Social Planning Ministry leaving control of Culture and Information to the NIF Number 3 Ghazi Salah el Din el Atabani...