Sudan

SUDAN

1924 – The British colonial rulers of Sudan. That same year they made laws to abolish slavery in Sudan. (A crime so monstrous. E Benjamin Skinner ©2008 UK).

1972 – Khashoggi helped arrange a revolving loan of $200 million. It was to be raised by 31 banks and guaranteed by the Saudi central bank. It was for a giant project that originally included sugar, cattle, textiles, minerals and cement. (Arms bazaar ©1977 Sampson).

2 March 1973 – In Sudan the US ambassador, Cleo A Noel jr and diplomat George C Moore were taken hostage and killed. The Fatah organisation were suspected.

2 March 1973 – US ambassador to Sudan was assassinated. Cleo A Noel and other diplomats were killed, at the Saudi Arabian embassy in Khartoum by members of Black September.

1 March 1974 – Saudi Arabian embassy in Khartoum was seized by Black September terrorists. Diplomats were taken hostage. The terrorists murdered two Americans and one Belgiun diplomat.

1976-82 – As part of Cuba’s alliance with Mengistu Haile Mariam’s regime in Ethiopia, Cuba engaged in political and military support for the Liberation movement of southern Sudan. It was headed by John Garang, against the Arab Muslim regime in Khartoum.

1978 – In Sudan another BCCI branch was due to open. This was unusual because every other bank in Sudan was nationalised.

1980 – A payoff to an African central banker Swaleh Naqvi asked Akbar Bilgrami to take senior official from Sudan’s central bank on a shopping trip at Harrods in London. BCCI paid more than $100,000. In return the official put millions of dollars of Sudan’s foreign exchange reserves into BCCI.

1988 – Famine that killed 250,000 people. (A crime so monstrous. E Benjamin Skinner ©2008 UK).

1989 – The leader of Sudan sent a delegation to Peshawar Pakistan. Al-Qaeda  Sudan relations.

Late 1989 to late 1991 – Bin Laden relocated al-Qaeda infrastructure to Sudan. Most of al-Qaeda’s fighters moved to Sudan. (Inside al-Qaeda. ©2002 R Gunaratna).

1990s – Human trafficking, quarter of a million Sudanese have been kidnapped and sold into international sex slavery. (The secret history of the American empire. John Perkins. ©2007 US).

1991 – Sudan Islamic banking http:reference.allrefer.com for the Sudan.

1991-96 – In 1991 bin Laden left Saudi Arabia and moved to Sudan where he remained until 1996.

April 1991 – Saudi Arabia expels bin Laden so he takes up residence in Sudan.

Late 1991 – In Sudan members of Egyptian Islamic Jihad were being trained in the use of explosives. Sudan’s intelligence worked closely with al-Qaeda. (Inside al-Qaeda ©2002 R Gunaratna).

1992 – Nizam al-Zakah fi al-Sudan Omdurman Islamic university printing and publishing p192 Sudan. Muhammad Bashir Abdulqadir.

1993 – Sudan is placed on the State departments list of countries that sponsor terrorist activities. Bin Laden’s followers try to get components of nuclear weapons and begin to work with Sudan’s NIP to develop chemical arms.

1993 – The Third World relief agency TWRA a Sudan based fake humanitarian organisation. It was used as a go between for the suppliers and fighters in Bosnia. TWRA had links with Islamists like Sheikh Omar Abdul Rahman, the blind sheikh, involved in the 1993 WTC bombing and bin Laden.

1993 – Cofer Black transferred from London to Khartoum Sudan. He arrived as the CIA station chief. Sudan’s government sponsored terrorism and the US had imposed economic sanctions. A Muslim Brotherhood inspired political party, called the National Islamic Front, led by Hasan al-Turabi had taken power. Turabi proclaimed Solidarity with terrorists both Socialist and Islamic. Hamas, Hezbollah, Egypt’s Islamic group, Algeria’s Islamic Salvation Front, Carlos the Jackal and Osama bin Laden. (Ghost wars ©2004 Steve Coll).

May 1993 – Pakistan crackdown on Arab radicals in spring. So bin Laden sent money to fly 480 of these Jihadists to Khartoum. They became part of bin Laden’s businesses. Money went to Egyptian Islamists for printing presses and weapons.

27 April 1993 – Declaration of Jihad against African Sudanese. Fatma issued from Kordofan El Obeid. Quraishi M Tariq.

1994 – Four Arab veterans of the Afghan war tried to kill bin Laden during 1994. The assassins opened fire inside a Khartoum mosque where bin laden preached. They shot several worshippers dead before they realised that bin laden was not there. (Ghost wars ©2004 Steve Coll).

January 1994 – By this time bin Laden was financing at least three terrorist training camps in north Sudan, where rebels from at least six nations received training.

Late 1994 – bin Laden was working closely with the Sudanese intelligence services, Sudanese intelligence were running paramilitary and terrorist operations in Egypt and elsewhere. Bin Laden had access to Sudanese military radios, weapons, and about 200 Sudanese passports. These passports added to the false documents bin Laden had acquired for his aides, and for the travel papers of Arab volunteers who were killed in the Afghan Jihad. Three training camps in northern Sudan, a multinational private army. (Ghost wars ©2004 Steve Coll).

1995 – Using Iranian funds, al-Turabi of Sudan helped Palestinian Islamic Jihad return to Israel where it carried out terror operations. Hamas, Algerian Islamic Salvation Army fighters, Iranian revolutionary guards, and al-Gama’at al-Islamiyya also relied on the government of Sudan. By 1995 half of the 3,000 Iranian revolutionary guards sent to Khartoum Sudan had came from Lebanon, of these more than 1,000 were Lebanese Hezbollah. (American Jihad ©2002 S Emerson).

1995 – Mugniyeh was flying back to Beirut from Sudan after a meeting with bin Laden. The US arranged for his Middle East airways plane to make a unscheduled stop in Saudi Arabia. But Saudi authorities refused to make him leave the plane.

1995 – An FBI source was Jamal al-Fadl a Sudanese militant who fled bin Laden’s circle after stealing a large sum of money from him in 1995. He was recruited by the Americans in 1996. (al-Qaeda ©2003 J Burke).

17 August 1996 – Sudanese rebel kidnapping Sudan’s peoples liberation army SPLA rebels kidnapped six missionaries in Mapourdit including a US citizen, an Italian, three Australians and a Sudanese. The SPLA released the hostages 11 days later.

Late 1990’s – al-Qaeda got uranium in Khartoum, and hired Egyptian and Pakistani physicists to research the development of unconventional weapons.

Nov 1996 – Sudan’s Jamal al Fadl worked for Osama Bin Laden in Khartoum. He had lived in Brooklyn New York. He was captured by the US. al Qaeda training camps and sleeper cells, nuclear and chemical weapons. 93 known members of al Qaeda then. (The looming tower. Lawrence Wright ©2006 US).

1 November 1996 – Red Cross worker kidnappings in Sudan. A breakaway group from the Sudanese people liberation army SPLA kidnapped three international committee of the Red Cross ICRC workers. Including a US citizen, an Australian and a Kenyan. On 9 December the rebels released the hostages in exchange for ICRC supplies and a health survey for their camp.

20 August 1998 – US unleashes cruise missile strikes against suspected terrorist installations in Sudan. In retaliation for the US embassy attacks in Africa.

20 August 1998 – Al Shifa, a pharmaceutical plant in Khartoum, was tied to the production of chemical weapons for bin Laden. Cruise missile attack in retaliation against bin Laden.

5-8 May 1998 – Contemporary government application of zakat in Sudan. Seminar on contemporary applications of Islamic economics. Casablanca Morocco. Abd al-Muem al-Gusi.

September 2001 – Mohamed Atta, who piloted a jet into the WTC, wired money to bin Laden’s former paymaster in Sudan. Shaykh Said al-Masri (aka Mustafa Muhammad Ahmad) on the eve of 9/11. (Alms for Jihad ©2006 Burr and Collins).

30 September 2001 – Resentful West spurned Sudan’s key terror files. David Rose. The Observer.

2003 – Obligatory almsgiving, an inquiry into zakat in the pre colonial bilael al-Sudan. Helsinki oriental society p26. Holger Weiss.

January 2003 – Ibn Baz federation al Afandi establishment African company Sudan al Amoudi group. Ibrahim Muhammad Afandi (Alms for Jihad ©2006 Burr and Collins).

15 November 2006 – 32 people were killed and 18 wounded in Darfur. Militia attack rebels Sudan.

16 February 2007 – US appeals court upholds terrorist designation for Islamic charity. A Federal appeals court upheld the US government decision to freeze the assets of an Islamic charity, with alleged links to a Sudanese group that supports terrorism. The Treasury department claims that Islamic American relief agency USA is an affiliate of the Islamic African relief agency. A Sudan based charity that US government says finances al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups. The US court of appeals for the district of Colombia agreed with a lower courts 2005 decision, saying the charity was a branch of the Sudanese based agency. (Int Herald Tribune, Site institute 15 Feb 2007).

9 Oct 2010 – Slavery. Africa news service. $10 and $100, more than 10,000 people are in slavery in Sudan today, most have been abducted.

7 November 2012 – Iranian warships dock in port Sudan. Iran Daily Brief.

6 Oct 2014 – Biggest ever UN humanitarian operations ever. Food, starvation. The Guardian UK. South Sudan food crisis, children AFP.

18 Oct 2014 – Sudan calls for support to combat human trafficking. Trans national crime. Sudan Tribune Khartoum.

20 Oct 2014 – South Sudan, sex violence is rampant, a two year old girl was raped. UN. Reuters. Rape and other forms of sex violence. South Sudan, two year old victim

22 Oct 2014 – Human trafficking is on the rise in east Sudan. MP on Radio Dabanga. Organised networks or rings. Mohamed El Taher Oushan, member of parliament for the Kassda state.

2 Nov 2014 – Arrests Communist party Blue Nile. Radio Dabanga. Ed Damazin Sudan’s Communist party in Blue Nile state.

4 Nov 2014 – Communist party in Blue Nile. Radio Tamazuj. Lawyers of the Communist party members arrested. Sudan’s Communist party members were detained in the Blue Nile. Radio Debanga.

5 Nov 2014 – Sudan bans observers from the scene of mass rapes. The Guardian UK. Sudan troops ban UN and African union peacekeepers from a town in western Darfur, to investigate reports of mass rapes of at least 200 women and girls.