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...Egyptian President gave him a tongue lashing that sent him scurrying back to Tripoli. Then Egyptian officials claimed that under questioning, Sareya admitted that last summer he had a long discussion with Gaddafi in Libya. These revelations triggered a Cairo press campaign against Gaddafi and led Ali Amin, editor of Cairo's influential newspaper Al Ahram, to call the Libyan ruler a "village idiot...
...seems likely that Amin had Ondoga killed to provoke a rebellion and hence justify a purge. If true, the scheme worked because the Lugbaras decided to move. Brigadier General Charles Arube, a Christian member of Amin's Kakwa tribe, joined the conspiracy because he was worried by Big Daddy's purges of the Christian Lugbara, Acholi and Langi tribesmen. Arube was also irritated when he recently returned from a military course in the Soviet Union to find that a Sudanese mercenary had supplanted him as acting chief of staff...
...plans last week called for an assassination squad to ambush Amin at his house on Kampala's Kokolo Hill. But when the squad arrived shortly after midnight, Amin was not there...
...headquarters of the Malire mechanized battalion in Kampala, commandeered a tank, blasted down the door and looted the armory. But instead of moving immediately to secure strong points in the capital, they made instead for Makindye prison to free Lugbara colleagues. It was a fatal mistake. Amin rounded up loyal troops and counterattacked. Arube was surprised by pro-Amin soldiers, who shot and killed...
...before, he had divorced three of his four Moslem wives: Senior Wife Miriam, sister of a former Foreign Minister, who fell out with Amin and fled the country last year; Second Wife Kay, a Lugbara and a cousin of Lieut. Colonel Ondoga, and Third Wife Nora, related to a cousin of ex-President Obote. The remaining wife, Madina, Amin says, was given to him as a gift in 1971; she apparently has no political ties to any Amin enemy...