Dr Hassan Abdullah el Turabi

On 1 January NIF leader Hassan el Turabi declared a jihad to be waged against Sudan's enemies: notably 'Eritrea and its American and Israeli allies...

Islamist leaders including Hassan Abdullah el Turabi made detours from US visits to visit him at the Islamic Studies Centre at McGill University Montreal...

Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir and Hassan Abdullah el Turabi...

In June 1995 Chissano made an official visit to Khartoum where he met President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir and the regime's real leader Hassan Abdullah el Turabi now head of the National Assembly...

The sanctions discussed were: economic; an arms embargo (the USA and European Union already have one); a ban on Sudanese airlines; reducing diplomats (Sudan embassies have a large staff including many not on diplomatic lists); visa restrictions (which could hurt ordinary exiles as in Egypt and Ethiopia); and a ban on holding international conferences in Sudan (few are held except by Hassan Abdullah el Turabi's Popular Arab and Islamic Conference)...

'They think I'm the Devil' Hassan el Turabi presented himself to journalists as Sudan's spiritual and intellectual guide during the March elections: • After being elected National Assembly Chairman by 'silent consensus': 'Parliament is only about three days in a week'...

In July 1995 panic briefly gripped the Egyptian press when the Sudanese leader Hassan el Turabi threatened: 'If the Sudanese were forced to intervene in the Nile water agreements it would be a lethal matter'...

After vehemently denying any involvement by Khartoum in the plot to kill Mubarak Ali Osman was asked to comment on a statement made to the (highly official) Sudan News Agency on 3 July by NIF leader Hassan Abdullah el Turabi following the assassination attempt: ‘The pharaoh of Egypt returned full of fright from Addis Ababa after he had been confronted by the mujahideen'...

Ali Osman smiled and said he could not speak for Hassan el Turabi...

'Carlos the Jackal' as he was long ago named by a British newspaper was by no means the only Marxist and/or secular activist the Islamist government welcomed Regular guests include Georges Habash (a member of NIP boss Hassan Abdullah el Turabi - Popular Arab Islamic Conference and Ahmed Jibril from Carlos original group the Popular Front for Liberation of Palestine...