This would have been inconceivable in the 1990s when Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak accused the NIF (and specifically Hassan Abdullah el Turabi) of the assassination attempt on him in Addis Ababa in 1995 or when President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir described Saudi Arabian King Fahd bin Abdul Aziz al Saud as unfit to be Guardian of the Two Holy Places (Mecca and Medina)...
Vol 47 No 19 |
- SUDAN
- BRITAIN
The veteran Islamist fell out with NIF guru Hassan el Turabi and his sons in 2000 publicly accusing the family of trying to kill him...
Justice and Equality Movement (JEM): seen as Islamist linked to NIF founder Hassan Abdullah el Turabi and ex-NIF minister Ali el Haj Mohamed; Zaghawa-based; led by lawyer Black Book author and former NIF State Minister involved in the South Khalil Ibrahim Mohamed...
NIF founder Hassan Abdullah el Turabi had in March accused those still in Khartoum's government of being behind 1995's assassination attempt on Mubarak...
Lam is also vulnerable as he has often switched sides - from SPLA to Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon (1991) to the Frankfurt Declaration with Hassan Abdullah el Turabi's friend Ali el Haj Mohamed (1992) to the Khartoum Peace Agreement with the NIF (1997) back to SPLM (2003)...
Smile' NCP; previous Foreign Minister; ex-SG Islamic Association of Student Organisations UK; SG Popular Arab and Islamic Conference (PAIC) set up 1990 by Hassan Abdullah el Turabi...
Umma The largest party weakened by the grasshopper behaviour of its leader El Sadig who this month declared an alliance with his brother-in-law Hassan el Turabi leader of the NIF's Popular Congress faction...
He blamed Ali el Haj Mohamed (number two in Hassan Abdullah el Turabi's Popular National Congress faction of the NIF) El Mahbub Abdel Salam el Mahbub (PNC ex-head of El Turabi's office political asylum in Britain) and Mubarek Abdullahi el Fadil el Mahdi (El Sadig Sadeeg el Mahdi's cousin who swapped being Secretary General of the opposition National Democratic Alliance for a brief fling with the NIF which got bored)...
He says he left JEM (where he was once deputy to its Chairman Khalil Ibrahim Mohamed) after he was ordered to the Nuba Mountains last April when NIF former boss Hassan Abdullah el Turabi was rearrested for an alleged coup attempt...
The JEM widely seen as Islamist and close to Hassan Abdullah el Turabi accuses the NMRD of being a Chadian/Sudanese government stooge...