The NIF also tried to position itself as the world 's leading Sunni Islamist organization , leading the only Sunni Islamist state before the Taliban . Although critical of Saddam Hussein Turabi held an anti-American Islamist conference during Operation Desert Storm , toward the end of supporting the Iraqi people in their war . During terrorism expert Steven Emerson 's 1998 testimony before the United States Senate , he implicated the Sudanese National Islamic Front as partly responsible for the February 1993 World Trade Center bombing . That attack , on February 26 , 1993 , occurred on the 2nd anniversary of the retreat of Iraqi forces from Kuwait , thus ending the 1991 Gulf War
1993 World Trade Center bombing
1993 World Trade Center bombing
National Islamic Front