Washington: United States (US) State Department on Wednesday designated a senior al Qaeda leader, who trained militants in Afghanistan and has close ties to other top members of the group, as a “Specially Designated Global Terrorist.”
The designation also comes with sanctions against Azaam Abdullah Zureik Al-Maulid, better known as Mansur al-Harbi.
Al-Harbi, who has long been a wanted man in his home country of Saudi Arabia, is now under the consideration of US.
In early 2009, al-Harbi was among the 83 Saudis and two Yemenis named on Saudi Arabia’s list of most wanted terrorists for engaging in extremist activities abroad.
A veteran of Afghanistan’s terror training camps, al-Harbi also was wanted for his connections with other senior al Qaeda leaders. According to the U.S. State Department, al-Harbi “traveled to Afghanistan more than a decade ago to join al Qaeda.
He is responsible for training militants and for the coordination of foreign fighters who travel to Afghanistan to fight against coalition forces. As a result of his key training position, al-Harbi is closely associated to many senior al Qaeda leaders.”
Al-Harbi’s most wanted associates include Saif al-Adel, the interim al Qaeda leader following the death of Osama bin Laden. Al-Adel is also wanted for his role in the 1998 African embassy bombings. Another wanted associate, Abdel Aziz Migrin, was al Qaeda’s leader in Saudi Arabia but was killed in a shootout with Saudi authorities in 2004.
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