Jamal al-Fadl

Jamal al-Fadl
Born1963
Khartoum, Sudan
NationalitySudanese
Known foral-Qaeda informant

Jamal Ahmed al-Fadl[1] (Arabic: جمال أحمد محمّد الفضل, Jamāl Aḥmad Muḥammad al-Faḍl; born 1963) is a Sudanese militant and former associate of Osama bin Laden in the early 1990s.[2] Al-Fadl was recruited for the Afghan war through the Farouq mosque in Brooklyn. In 1988, he joined Al-Qaeda and took an oath of fealty to Bin Laden. After a dispute with Bin Laden, al-Fadl defected and became an informant to the United States government on al-Qaeda's activities.

  1. ^ Jamal al-Fadl testimony, United States vs. Osama bin Laden et al., trial transcript, Day 2, Feb. 6, 2001.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference SageTerrorism was invoked but never defined (see the help page).