[The Telegraph] London-educated scholar who built Africa's first Islamic state and turned Khartoum into a hub for terrorists from Osama bin Laden to Carlos the Jackal.Hassan al-Turabi, the power behind Sudan's Islamist coup and the man believed to have invited Osama bin Laden to the country during the 1990s, has died at the age of 84.
Sudan's state broadcaster interrupted its regular programming to announce his death.
"The Islamist intellectual Hassan al-Turabi has died," it said, before broadcasting verses from the Koran.