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...
It has tried to spin the Darfur crisis as primarily an age-old conflict over resources; a civil war based on ethnicity; a 'normal' government response to an armed rebellion; a US attempt to divert attention from Iraq; a Zionist attempt to divert attention from Israel; an attempt by the Sudan People's Liberation Army as supporters of the Sudan Liberation Army to wriggle out of Naivasha; and an attempt by Hassan Abdullah el Turabi's NIF faction the Popular Congress (PC) to undermine and even overthrow Vice-President Ali Osman Mohamed Taha's National Congress (NC) faction...
These range from the apparent jettisoning of Hassan el Turabi and his group in 1999 and criticism of the government by former chief peace negotiator Ghazi Salah el Din el Atabani to most recently the sacking/resignation of the Humanitarian Affairs Commissioner (AC Vol 44 No 15)...
NIF veteran Ghazi has for months been criticising Ali Osman's tactics just like NIF guru Hassan Abdullah el Turabi...
III) The Islamist line: the Darfur conflict is playing out the Khartoum power struggle between Vice-President Ali Osman's NC faction and Hassan el Turabi's Popular Congress...