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Briton in Islam Insult Case Leaves Sudan

Monday, December 03, 2007 1:00:52 PM
By ALFRED de MONTESQUIOU

Lord Nazir Ahmed talks during a presser at the Sudanese Presidential palace following his meeting with Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, not pictured, in Khartoum, Sudan, Monday, Dec. 3, 2007. Bashir agreed to pardon a British teacher jailed here after she allowed her students to name a teddy bear Muhammad. At right,  Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, a fellow Muslim representative from Britain's House of Lords. (Ap Photos/Abd Raouf)KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) - A British teacher jailed for insulting Islam after allowing her students to name a teddy bear Muhammad flew home Monday following a pardon by the president of Sudan, a British Embassy spokesman said.

Gillian Gibbons was believed to be on an Emirates flight with a stopover in Dubai before heading to London.

Embassy spokesman Omar Daair told The Associated Press that Gibbons has left Sudan.


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