Word: giarabub
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Churchill said: "The unhappy Arab tribes who have for 30 years suffered from the cruelty of Italian rule . . . have at last seen their oppressors in disorderly flight or led off in endless droves as prisoners of war." Last week, near the white walls, bright cupolas and date palms of Giarabub Fort, 150 miles south of Bardia, and the last East Libyan post still being held by the Italians, a great crowd of Moslems waited to make a triumphal entry when the Australian troops should take the fort. These were the vanguard of 3,000,000 Moslems of the Senussi sect...
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