After this BNP 'rushed in and came to the assistance of the Government of Sudan to become the sole correspondent bank in Europe for the Sudanese Central Bank and all major commercial banks in Sudan including Al Shamal a bank used by Al Qaida and controlled by Usama bin Laden ' said a lawyer for the victims Gavriel Mairone...
Also present was Engineer Abdel Moneim el Sunni who heads the International Popular Friendship Council widely seen as the successor to the Popular Arab Islamic Conference of which Mustafa Osman Ismail was founding Secretary General in the early 1990s when Usama bin Laden lived in Khartoum (AC Vol 41 No 3 The men in charge)...
'We had eye-witness testimony of meetings between Usama bin Laden and leaders of IRGC-Al Quds [Force] and Hezbollah in Tehran and training of the Al Qaida team in Lebanon by Hezbollah' Mairone told AC...
Experts of a different stripe included two senior Al Qaida officials who turned state evidence Jamal Ahmed Mohamed el Fadl ('Jamal al Fadl') a Sudanese whose testimony came in the November 2001 trial 'USA versus Usama bin Laden' and from an Egyptian former US Special Forces officer Ali Abdel Seoud [perhaps Abul Seoud] Mohamed...
Unity moves included releasing 23 Salafist militia on 20 June who were gaoled in 2012 after clashes with police in El Dinder National Park Blue Nile an old stamping ground of Usama bin Laden...
1992: Usama bin Laden sets up base fellow Islamist leaders meet to plan and teach; foreign recruits get military and doctrinal training...
In 2011 the judge had found that the Sudanese and Iranian governments had provided 'material aid and support' to Al Qaida and Usama bin Laden in the bombings and were thus liable...
Vol 54 No 25 |
- EGYPT
- SUDAN
The next section of the road leading to Khartoum was built by Usama bin Laden when he lived in Sudan...
• Mustafa Osman Ismail (Mister Smile): link man to Arab governments and financiers; founding Secretary Popular Arab Islamic Conference precursor of Usama bin Laden’s Al Qaida...
He returned to Nigeria and settled in Kano where he is said to have received messages from Usama Bin Laden...
