Hassan Turabi was arrested not for being a "fundamentalist Islamic ideologue" but for being implicated in the latest charge at Omdurman, the pseudo-coup by JEM just outside Khartoum (Omdurman being to Khartoum as Buda is to Pest, or Sale to Rabat, or Minneapolis to St. Paul). The men who arrested him are just as "Islamic" as he is. It was Stalin killing Kirov, or Hitler ridding himself of Rohm. It was as if Malenkov and Bulganin had arrested "party ideologist" Suslov in 1955, on suspicion not of misunderstanding Marx but of power-grabbing miching mallecho.