US designates al-Qaeda man a global terrorist
Muhammad Jamal was bomb-maker, top commander in Egyptian Islamic Jihad
Illustrative photo of terrorists training. (photo credit: AP)
WASHINGTON — The United States
is designating Muhammad Jamal as a global terrorist under an executive
order that targets those linked to terrorism.
The
State Department’s declaration Monday blocks any property Jamal or his
network may have in US jurisdiction and bans US citizens from engaging
in any transactions that would benefit him.
Jamal learned how to make bombs in the late
1980s from al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and formed his own network — with
terrorist training camps in Egypt and Libya — after being released from
an Egyptian prison in 2011. In the 1990s, Jamal became a top military
commander of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad — then headed by Ayman
al-Zawahiri, the chief of the al-Qaida network.
Copyright 2013 The Associated Press.
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