Word: mainassara
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...Niger had been his first stop, where he spent an hour speaking with then President Ibrahim Bare Mainassara. Mainassara greeted al-Zahawie warmly, and turned out to be the only leader on his itinerary to accept Baghdad's invitation, promising to visit Saddam in April. The next day, al-Zahawie left to continue his trip, and was back at the Holy See in a matter of days...
...Mainassara, as it turned out, didn't live long enough to keep his promise to visit Saddam - he was assassinated in April 1999. Al-Zahawie thought nothing more of his fruitless African tour, and left his post in 2000, retiring in Amman, Jordan...
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