Al-Qaida said angry at Sudan for passing data to US

LONDON, June 18, 2005 (Al-Sharq al-Awsat) — Fundamentalists in London say that the unprecedented attack on the Sudanese government by Ayman al-Zawahri, the number one ally of the leader of Al-Qaida Organization Osama bin Ladin, in his new tape that was broadcast by the Qatari satellite channel Al-Jazeera yesterday (June 17) was due to Khartoum’s handing over to Washington of files on Al-Qaida’s leaderships.

Hani al-Subaie the director of Al-Maqrizi Research Centre in London told Al-Sharq al-Awsat “Khartoum has turned over files with photographs for most of the leaderships of Al-Qaida and the Egyptian Jihad” who used to live in the Sudanese capital until they broke off and left Sudan in 1995.

He said that most of the fundamentalists who lived in Khartoum used fictitious names or forged passports for security reasons, but the Sudanese government knew their identities by virtue of a special agreement between the security bodies and the leaders of the Islamic groups.

Ayman al-Zawahri, the number two man in Al-Qaida Organization criticized “the American visualization of reforms” and attacked, according to the tape, the Sudanese, Saudi and Egyptian governments according to what the channel cited.

Material provided by the BBC Monitoring service.