Dr Hassan Abdullah el Turabi

It may sideline some prominent people (as it did after 1995's attack on Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and in 1999 with Hassan el Turabi and his faction) so as to create apparent distance from Usama bin Laden and his comrades (AC Vol 42 No 24) many of whom it continues to host...

He insists that supporters of Hassan Abdullah el Turabi's People's National Congress are using the crisis to weaken Omer and Ali Osman's group...

The NIF's founder Hassan Abdullah el Turabi gave a pointer to this in a 1998 BBC interview repeated last week: 'I wouldn't say he's er he focusses on advancing Islamic thought or new programmes and policies...

' Nimeiri's Islamisation programme was largely drawn up by National Islamic Front boss Hassan Abdullah el Turabi and gave birth to the present NIF regime with its draconian security system and militarisation...

Egypt has no such qualms believing it can keep the NIF in hand despite the attempt to murder President Hosni Mubarak in June 1995 which Mubarak openly blamed on NIF leader Hassan Abdullah el Turabi...

June 1999 Geneva Switzerland; Hassan el Turabi and El Sadig el Mahdi (brothers-in-law) meet...

'We know you better than you know us' NIF-founder Hassan Abdullah el Turabi likes to say...

(Though the NIF now calls itself the 'National Congress' with Hassan Abdullah el Turabi's 'Popular National Congress' as the 'opposition' Sudanese still call the whole thing the 'Jebha' (Front) including 'El Turabi's faction' AC Vol 41 No 4)...

The arrest of the National Islamic Front government's founding father Hassan el Turabi on 21 February sent ripples of glee through Sudanese communities: the previous two times he was sent to gaol the government fell...

The contradictions are epitomised in the year-long quarrel between Vice-President Ali Osman Mohamed Taha's group (fronted by President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir) and Hassan Abdullah el Turabi...