In his own country in 1983 he said the former military leader General Ja'afar Mohamed Nimeiri had decreed an Islamic criminal code then declared that since he applied Sharia his authority had become sacred and that from now on those who obey him obey God and those who oppose him oppose God...
Abdel Rahman Suwar el Dahab (head of Al Da'wa al Islamiyya from 1987) did after President Ja'afar Mohamed Nimeiri's overthrow in 1985...
However an exchange of ambassadors was a key element in a policy paper from CSIS in late February chaired by former Clinton advisor Stephen Morrison and Francis Mading Deng a Sudanese academic and once ex-President Ja'afar Nimeiri's junior Foreign Minister...
He had been pensioned off from the army under President Ja'afar Nimeiri but was reinstated during the transitional year after Nimeiri's overthrow under Lieutenant General Abdel Rahman Suwar el Dahab (who later became head of Al Da'awa al Islamiya - Islamic Call)...
He was arrested just before President Ja'afar Nimeiri's overthrow in 1985 ensuring his rapid release just after...
Ja'afar Mohamed Nimeiri which civilians overthrew in 1964 and 1985...
The operation was executed with the systematic planning dedication and attention to detail typical of the NIF and its man heading the operation El Fatih Mohamed Ahmed Erwa once a major in President Ja'afar Nimeiri's National Security and now Sudan's UN Ambassador...
Turabi's noisy declarations last week that he was about to be arrested and that a 'rebellion' was imminent reminded the public that he'd conveniently found himself in gaol at President Ja'afar Nimeiri's overthrow in 1985 enabling him to distance himself from a hated government...
Several prominent non-NIF ministers are out notably Mahdi Babbo Nimr (whom El Sadig once handpicked as his Chief of Staff) Badr el Din Suleiman (once President Ja'afar Nimeiri's Finance Minister and brother of Ghazi Suleiman who is lawyer to El Shifa factory-owner Salah el Din Idriss) and Major Gen...
Verbal gymnastics cannot place what President Ja'afar Mohamed Nimeiri (who divided the south) named Unity Province anywhere but in the south - unless this is what some think is the NIF's Grand Plan: to sacrifice the far south (Equatoria southern Upper Nile and southern Bahr el Ghazal) where the SPLA is strongest and hold onto the oilfields...
