Abdel Majid al-Majali ( ar, عبد المجيد المجالي) Also known as Abu Qutaibah al
Majali ( ar, أبو قتيبة المجالي) and Abu Qutayba al-Ordony ( ar, أبو قتيبة الأردني) is a
Salafi jihadist from
Al Karak
Al-Karak ( ar, الكرك), is a city in Jordan known for its medieval castle, the Kerak Castle. The castle is one of the three largest castles in the region, the other two being in Syria. Al-Karak is the capital city of the Karak Governorate.
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who recruited
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi ( ar, أَبُو مُصْعَبٍ ٱلزَّرْقَاوِيُّ, ', ''Father of Musab, from Zarqa''; ; October 30, 1966 – June 7, 2006), born Ahmad Fadeel al-Nazal al-Khalayleh (, '), was a Jordanian jihadist who ran a t ...
to fight in
Afghanistan. He was one of participants in the
Afghan Arabs، and the manager of
Maktab al-Khidamat in
Jordan. his older son qutaibah is fighting with
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and his other son yusef returned from fighting with ISIS. He was arrested in 2014 because of encouraging people to fight with ISIS. Some Jordanian writers claimed that his jihadist activities was linked with
2016 Al-Karak attack
On 18 December 2016, a series of shootings took place in the city of Al-Karak in southern Jordan. The attack started in the vicinity of Al-Karak where a group of unidentified militants ambushed emergency responders and then moved into the city, a ...
.
7iber.com, The Road to Karak Castle: The Path of the Attack and Backgrounds of Some of Those Involved
See also
* Osama bin Laden
Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden (10 March 1957 – 2 May 2011) was a Saudi-born extremist militant who founded al-Qaeda and served as its leader from 1988 until Killing of Osama bin Laden, his death in 2011. Ideologically a Pan-Islamism ...
* Abdullah Azzam
External links
meforum.org
References
{{Portal bar, jordan
People from Karak Governorate
Jordanian al-Qaeda members
Salafi jihadists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)