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Internationally. the regime's isolation, initially the result of its BritishIsraeli connections at the time of the coup, was complete with its overtures to South Africa. This dilemma provided an opening for the opportunist supporters of the regime. Led by Foreign Minister \Vanume Kibedi, they counselled the general to initiate a realignment of the regime's international relations. Effectively, this was an attempt to change masters. The endresult of this strategy was to move one foot into the Soviet-led camp.
Thatj unc, the regimes m Khartoum and Kampala signed a military pact. Exiled anti-Amin forces were henceforth restricted to only one sympathetic neighbour, Tanzania. \Vith a political settlement in the Southern Sudan, many of the ex-Anyanya guerrillas became willing recruits for Amin's fastexpanding army. ' The ~egime also reaped its harvest from the newly found Libyan connection. ~~ddafi of Libya had a monetary conception of how to counter lsr~eh mft~e~cc on the African continent. As expounded later at the Non-Ahgned Nauons' conference in Algiers in 1973, Libya offered to compens~te ~enero~ly any c~untry for the financial loss it might sustain by breakmg hnks with Israel.
Us 1h1m Supreme C ouno·1 became one of die largest pnvate . landl ord s m t e countrv It ll · . ,· now contra ed all the mosques houstng estates, sc hools dtspen · d • owned b Asian' M li sanes,. an_ even a few factories, previously Y • ~s m orgamzattons throughout the countrv. U~ISC became an econom1c powe · 1· . ts. own ng~t. Its leadership was prize~ mtg ty · he Mtruster of Fmance, Brigadier Moses Ah, THE FASCIST STATE 57 was its chairman. Rank and file ~luslirns were temporarily misled and isolated from the rest of the people.