In the idiomatic English of a United States education and a long spell at the London Embassy he argued that ‘agreement is emerging with two of the big parties' the Umma Party and Democratic Unionist Party and ‘hopefully the PCP' Hassan el Turabi's Popular Congress Party...
The coming government reshuffle could bring back two pariahs: Hassan Abdullah el Turabi's faction and former security chief Salah Mohamed Abdullah ‘Gosh' who was arrested last November but freed on 10 July...
In the wings stand the Islamic Movement as well as Hassan el Turabi’s followers who are now officially in opposition...
Further in the wings are Hassan Abdullah el Turabi’s Popular Congress Party (PCP) now backing the opposition but seen by many as a Trojan horse...
They started under 1983’s ‘September laws’ when Hassan el Turabi was President Ja’afar Nimeiri’s Attorney General...
Hassan Abdullah el Turabi is the godfather of constitutional Sharia in Sudan first under President Ja’afar Mohamed Nimeiri and then after his NIF seized power in 1989...
El Sadig also attended a meeting in England on 14 November with Yasir Saeed Arman Secretary General of the Sudan Revolutionary Front; Ali el Haj Mohamed of Hassan Abdullah el Turabi’s Popular Congress Party; and his own cousin Nasr el Din el Hadi el Mahdi Deputy SG of the SRF and then Co-Deputy SG of the Umma (AC Vol 52 No 21 Opposition on the march)...
Vol 53 No 22 |
- SUDAN
- ISRAEL
The government has hosted both Hamas and Hezbollah since the guru of the NCP (then called the National Islamic Front NIF) Hassan Abdullah el Turabi and Mustafa Osman Ismail set up the People’s Arab Islamic Conference in Khartoum in 1991 (AC Vol 41 No 13 Hall of mirrors)...
National Umma Party leader El Sadig Sideeg el Mahdi was there as was Sadig’s brother-in-law Hassan Abdullah el Turabi founding father of the NCP (then National Islamic Front NIF)...
Even fellow Islamists from Hassan Abdullah el Turabi’s Popular Congress Party call for ‘regime change’ fuelling suspicion that they are the NCP’s reserve team...