A military officer who had studied at an army staff college in the United States, Colonel Nimeiri seized power from president Ismail Azhari in a coup in 1969, following the example of Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser.
VOA: standard.2009.05.31
The death of serial terror bomber Azhari Husin in a police raid just after the Forbes visit suggested authorities could get a handle on the radical-Islamic mayhem that has haunted Indonesia in the last few years.