Wa'el Hamza Julaidan
Wa'el Hamza Julaidan (born February 22, 1958, in Medina, Saudi Arabia) established "the Service Office" or Maktab al-Khidamat in Afghanistan along with Osama Bin Laden and Abdullah Yusuf Azzam in 1984. Many of the supporters of al Qaeda were trained in the Arab military camps this trio set up in support of the mujahideen resistance movement against the Soviet occupation.
He was the president of the Tucson Islamic Center from 1984 to 1985. In 1986 he left Tucson to fight the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.[1]
In the late 1980s, he co-founded Al-Qaeda due to dissatisfaction with Maktab al-Khidamat.[2]
External links
- Wael Julaidan - profile at GlobalSecurity.org
References
- ^ "How Southern Arizona became home base for terror", Arizona Daily Star, 24 July 2004
- ^ Founders meet and form al-Qaeda, GlobalSecurity.org
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