Dr Hassan Abdullah el Turabi

When Khalil Ibrahim a Darfurian close to Hassan el Turabi's NIF faction claimed the SLA as an ally many oppositionists began to suspect it was a government ploy...

In 1991 another NIF leader Yassin Omer el Imam (and another former deputy to Hassan Abdullah el Turabi) tearfully embraced Saddam at an Islamic conference in Baghdad...

The NIF with links to both wants to give Washington and London what they want presenting Hassan el Turabi as holding the secrets of a Qaida-Iraq axis...

Its two main factions Ali Osman's National Congress and Hassan Abdullah el Turabi's Popular National Congress are talking about rapprochement (AC Vol 44 No 1)...

Hassan el Turabi was quoted as agreeing to this...

The 'good cop bad cop' script will continue; Hassan el Turabi will stay under house arrest while the USA focuses on Islamist networks he started (the Turabi and Ali Osman factions met in London this week)...

The claimants note that he was 'invited' to Sudan by Hassan el Turabi and describe him as 'under the protection of the Sudanese regime' in a 'symbiotic' relationship (AC Vol 42 No 19)...

Nimeiri then declared Islamic law (his Attorney General was Hassan Abdullah el Turabi); the government fuelled ethnic rivalries by manipulating politicians seeking power in a 'decentralised' south...

' Many Sudanese north and south claim this is also a description of the SPLA's widely condemned agreement with Hassan Abdullah el Turabi's Popular National Congress...

Hassan Abdullah el Turabi's faction the Popular National Congress (PNC) led by Ali el Haj Mohamed met the SPLA's Pagan Amun (who is also NDA Secretary General) and Yasser Arman (SPLA representative in Asmara)...

They were celebrating their 'Memorandum of Understanding' of the previous year the official cause of Hassan el Turabi's arrest ­ by which they agreed to work together for democracy and self-determination...

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...