Jamal al-Fadl
Sudanese former Al-Qaeda member (born 1963) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.