These companies started off as a result of funding from Usama bin Laden SIM networks and supporters in the Gulf...
Vol 62 No 4 |
- FRANCE
- SAHEL
- G5
This focus on Al Qaida-linked groups was presaged in a 1 February presentation by Bernard Émié head of France's Direction générale de la sécurité extérieure (DGSE) intelligence service portraying both the 'bloodthirsty' ISGS chief Abouwalid al Sahraoui and the JNIM leader Iyad ag Ghali – 'a spiritual son of Usama bin Laden' – as major threats...
The main faction of MOSOP which split last month had previously spoken up for the Ogoni-based militant Solomon Ndigbara aka 'Osama bin Laden'...
The United States Navy Seals who killed Osama Bin Laden in May 2011 uncovered a document detailing a 'non-aggression pact' between Al Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and Mauritania in the raid...
Neither will his role in the deaths of 52 Burundian soldiers in the African Mission in Somalia (Amisom) in the Daynille battle on the outskirts of Mogadishu in 2011 be forgotten let alone his support for 'foreign fighters' and his admiration for Usama bin Laden...
The pivotal involvement of the NCP (then still the National Islamic Front) in hosting financing and training domestic and foreign Islamist terrorists including Usama bin Laden made US Democrat President Bill Clinton impose sanctions in 1997...
For others overseas he was the man who helped Usama bin Laden to build Al Qaida and the godfather of an international Islamist network...
An advocate of Shia-Sunni reconciliation unlike other leading Muslim Brothers internationally El Turabi called for cooperation especially after he had in 1989 invited Usama bin Laden to bring the newly launched Al Qaida to Sudan...
In that regard better known leaders such as Usama bin Laden or Iranian ex-President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad owed him a great debt – which of course was paid in US dollars...
• Autumn 1989: persuades Usama bin Laden to move his newly launched Al Qaida to Khartoum where it grows...
Along with two Jordanians two of the remaining four are also Egyptian: Abu Kheir el Masri (real name Abdullah Mohamed Rajab Abdel Rahman) is married to one of Usama bin Laden's daughters and once ran Al Qaida's Management Council...
It is believed that on his way to the Sahel Seif passed through Sudan to visit what a source described as 'many jihadist old hands' there including Mohamed Loai Bayazid aka Abu Rida el Suri an Al Qaida-founder who worked closely with Usama bin Laden during his years in Sudan in the 1990s and who still lives in Khartoum...
In the 1990s he trained Islamist fighters in Sudan alongside the late Usama bin Laden...
He gave the eulogy for Usama bin Laden on behalf of Al Shabaab...
