Nyorai mberi kweiyi ndima - Pakusarudzwa kukuru kwa1996, ndiye chete aikwikwidza pamutemo kuti azokwikwidza musarudzo. Sudan yakava nyika ine bato rimwe chete pasi peNational Congress Party (NCP). Mukati ma1990, Hassan al-Turabi, panguva iyoyo akanga ari Mutauriri weNational Assembly, akasvika kumapoka echiIslam akaoma mwoyo, akakoka Osama bin Laden munyika. United States yakazonyora Sudan senyika inotsigira ugandanga. Pashure pokuputika kwebhomba kweAl Qaeda pamahofisi eU.S. muKenya neTanzania
United States yakatanga Operation Infinite Reach ndokunanga fekitari yemishonga yeAl-Shifa iyo hurumende yeU.S. yaidavira zvisiri izvo kuti yakanga ichigadzira zvombo zvemakemikoro zveboka remagandanga. Simba raAl-Turabi rakatanga kuderera, vamwe vaitsigira hutungamiri hune hunyanzvi vakaedza kuchinja kusurukirwa kwenyika yeSudan. Nyika yacho yakashanda kunyaradza vatsoropodzi vayo kupfurikidza nokudzinga mitezo yeEgyptian Islamic Jihad uye kukurudzira bin Laden kuti abve.