Word: hadi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with Mahgoub in banning the Communist Party because a Sudanese Communist had made a slanderous remark about the wife of the Prophet Mohammed. But within his own Umma Party, the young Mahdi speaks for religious toleration for the south. His chief rival within the Umma is his uncle, Imam Hadi el Mahdi, 47, who advocates a tougher policy toward the rebels and, Sadik believes, wants to establish a Moslem theocracy throughout the Sudan...
...Before long, terrorists were potshotting at an Egyptian army camp outside the capital and setting fire to Egyptian installations, killing a reported 70 Egyptian troops. Sallal's troops then swooped down on some 140 suspects, including Mohamed Ruwainy, Sallal's ex-Minister for Tribal Affairs, and Colonel Hadi Issa, former deputy chief of staff of Sallal's armed forces. Sallal's government accused Ruwainy and Issa of organizing a "subversive network seeking to plunge the country into terrorism and panic" and planning a campaign of assassination-financed by Saudi Arabia, Britain, Israel and the U.S. After...
...member of the family escaped. The British overlooked the youngest of the prophet's twelve sons, who kept his father's sect alive, founded a cotton empire, and had six sons of his own. Today, El Mahdi's descendants again rule the Sudan. His grandson, Imam Hadi el Mahdi, is the stiff, unyielding religious leader of the sect to which most Sudanese Moslems belong. A great-grandson, Sadik el Mahdi, is a young British-educated economist who led the Mahdists' Umma Party to victory in last year's election...