Intro -- Contents -- Map -- Acronyms -- Preface -- Chapter One: The Islamist Revolution -- The National Salvation Revolutionary Command Council Confirms Its Authority -- Securing the Revolution -- The People's Defense Force -- A Brave New Islamic World -- Chapter Two: Foreign Policy Initiatives -- The Egyptian Reaction -- Pan-Islamic Sentiments -- Revolutionary Connections: Iran and Libya -- The Tripoli Relationship -- War, the OAU, and President Mubarak -- Rejecting the Peace Process -- Islamists, Mubarak, and the Sudan -- The Consolidation of the Revolution -- Iraq Invades Kuwait -- The Disintegration of Ethiopia -- Chapter Three: The Return of Hasan al-Turabi -- The Popular Arab and Islamic Congress -- The First Congress -- The Arrival of Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda -- At Home in the Sudan -- Turabi Triumphant -- The Sudan and the Arabs -- Iran and the Sudan -- Chapter Four: The NIF Takes Charge -- The Price for the Islamist World -- Turabi the Traveler -- Turabi: Assault and Recovery -- The Egyptian Connection -- The Halayib Embroglio -- The Saudi Reaction -- The Uneasy Sudan-Uganda Relationship -- Chapter Five: The United States and the NIF -- Somalia -- Herman Cohen and the Sudan -- The New York World Trade Center Bombing -- The United States, Sudan, and Somalia -- Humanitarian Missions -- Chapter Six: State Sponsored Terrorism -- The United States and Sudan Sponsored Terrorism -- Hasan al-Turabi and the Second Popular Arab and Islamic Congress -- Sudanese Islamists Beyond the Sudan -- The Bosnia Connection -- The Sudan, Yemen, and Egypt -- Chapter Seven: The French Connection -- Carlos the Jackal -- The Aftermath of L'Affaire Carlos -- Chapter Eight: The Islamic Conference, the Middle East, Europe, and Africa -- The Iran-Iraq-Sudan Axis and Bosnia -- The Sudanese Opposition Begins to Revive.

The Inter-Governmental Authority on Drought and Development -- Chapter Nine: The Plot to Assassinate President Mubarak and the Sudan -- The Attempt to Assassinate Hosni Mubarak -- Sudan Intelligence Agencies and the Sudan Allied Forces -- The Isolation of the Sudan -- Thunder on the Nile -- Eritrea, Uganda, Ethiopia, and the Sudan -- Chapter Ten: Searching for Friends, Surrounded by Enemies -- Hasan al-Turabi and the National Council -- Osama bin Laden for Sale -- Egyptian Sudanese Rapprochement -- The Khobar Towers Bombing -- Subtle Changes in the Sudan -- The Flight of Sadiq al-Mahdi -- Chapter Eleven: Arakis, Oil, and China -- Drilling for Black Gold -- The Oil Economics of NIF -- Arakis Takes Charge -- Arakis, Stockholders, and Khartoum -- The Chinese and Sudan Oil -- Chapter Twelve: The End of an Islamist Experiment -- Ruling the Sudan -- The Stigma of Terrorism -- The Embassy Bombings and the Al-Shifa Reaction -- The Search for Peace -- Bashir, Turabi, and the Struggle for Power -- Oil Again -- Turabi's Last Hurrah -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

This volume investigates the objectives, activities and a decade of success and failure by Islamist military officers and civilians to create the first Islamic government in Africa after the coup d'etat by Brigadier Omar Hasan Ahmad al-Bashir.

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