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  • Despite the oil wealth he refused to educate Libyans, or provide them with a health service or subsidised housing, squandering money on absurdist projects abroad – one of which was to divert a British plane carrying socialist and communist Sudanese oppositionists and handing them over to fellow dictator Gaafar Nimeiry in Sudan to be hanged, thus wrecking the possibility of any radical change in that country, with dire consequences, as we witness every day.

    This is an Arab 1848. But US hegemony is only dented | Tariq Ali 2011

  • The investigators are state security officers who go by the common names of Roshdy, Gaafar, Moussa, or Nour.

    Egypt: The Capital of Hell on Earth 2009

  • The investigators are state security officers who go by the common names of Roshdy, Gaafar, Moussa, or Nour.

    Egypt: The Capital of Hell on Earth 2009

  • Henri Konan Bedie of Ivory Coast and Gaafar el-Nimeiri of Sudan have returned home from exile.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2003

  • There seemed to be three or four bedrooms on the second floor, with a narrow staircase leading up to a third floor where, presumably Gaafar slept.

    The Key to Rebecca Follett, Ken, 1949- 1980

  • But Wolff had the knife, and Gaafar was old, and Wolff would get Billy anyway.

    The Key to Rebecca Follett, Ken, 1949- 1980

  • Gaafar had been awestruck, and inclined to move around softly and talk in whispers, as if there had been a death in the family.

    The Key to Rebecca Follett, Ken, 1949- 1980

  • Egyptians were very reluctant to make phone calls to GHQ, Elene knew: Gaafar would have trouble getting past the switchboard operators and secretaries.

    The Key to Rebecca Follett, Ken, 1949- 1980

  • Vandam smiled: Gaafar was doing his English-butler act in honor of the feminine company.

    The Key to Rebecca Follett, Ken, 1949- 1980

  • He sent Gaafar to bed, and they drank their coffee.

    The Key to Rebecca Follett, Ken, 1949- 1980

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