Gillian Gibbons Released

Accord­ing to the AP, Gillian Gib­bons has been placed safely on a plane out of Sudan, bound for home. More as story develops.

Update: Ms. Gib­bons was appar­ently par­doned by Sudan Pres­i­dent Omar al-​​Bashir after two Mus­lim mem­bers of the UK House of Lords flew to Sudan to nego­ti­ate on her behalf. She was par­doned and released to the British embassy in Khar­toum, where­after she was booked on every pos­si­ble flight out of Khar­toum, for secu­rity pur­poses. She was taken to the air­port in an unmarked car and flew to Dubai, where she boarded a flight to Heathrow. She is due to arrive at 7am local time (2am EST).

The only unfor­tu­nate part of all this is that we prob­a­bly won’t get many details on the nego­ti­a­tions. I would have liked to have known how they went.

Thank­fully, she is safe and will be home soon.

2007
12/03
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Qwertz
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  1. That is great news. I’m thor­oughly dis­gusted that this even hap­pened and rather shocked at the reac­tions of some Amer­i­can per­son­ages. Did you see that some peo­ple are actu­ally blam­ing the teacher for not know­ing the local cus­toms well enough? That idea was espoused on that tv show The View–I never watch it, but I read about their take on the whole sit­u­a­tion. I’m sure they’re not alone in think­ing that this was some­how the fault of Mrs. Gib­bons. Revolting.

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