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| US blacklists Egypt terror commander |
| 2013-10-08 |
| [Al Ahram] The United States on Monday blacklisted as a terrorist an Egyptian Islamist military commander with links to Al-Qaeda, accusing him of setting up training camps in Egypt and Libya. The State Department also designated as global forces of Evil the group founded by Muhammad Jamal, who had learned bomb-making techniques when he trained with Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan in the 1980s Jamal had returned from Afghanistan to Egypt in the 1990s and became the military head of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... , which was then led by Ayman Al-Zawahri, now the global head of Al-Qaeda following the killing of the late Osama bin Laden ... who is no longer with us, and won't be again... Jamal was tossed in the slammer Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! several times by Egyptian authorities, but on his release in 2011 he founded the Muhammad Jamal Network "and established several terrorist training camps in Egypt and Libya," the State Department said in a statement. He has also developed links with the Yemen-based Al-Qaeda in Arabian Peninsula and used their network "to smuggle fighters into training camps." "Suicide bombers have trained at MJN training camps, and Jamal established links with forces of Evil in Europe," the State Department said. After he was re-arrested in Egypt in November 2012, "his confiscated computer contained letters to Zawahri in which Jamal asked for assistance and described MJN's activities, including acquiring weapons, conducting terrorist training, and establishing terrorist groups in the Sinai." |
| Posted by:Fred |