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To: Destro; F14 Pilot
Can they rethrow his damned bones back into the river Destro as in pronto?
23 posted on 11/04/2003 10:44:38 PM PST by Cindy
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Even a dead Mahdi could not escape British revenge. Kitchener immediately ordered the Mahdi’s body hauled out and his tomb destroyed. The body of the Expected One was tossed into the Nile, minus its skull. Kitchener wanted to make it into an inkwell but was persuaded that it would be considered tasteless. So the general ordered the relic reburied. To this day the last remains of the Mahdi lie in an unmarked plot somewhere near Wadi Halfa.
26 posted on 11/04/2003 10:49:22 PM PST by Destro (Know your enemy! Help fight Islamic terrorisim by visiting www.johnathangaltfilms.com)
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