Some background on him:
UN Security Council list of individuals and groups embargoed for their affiliation with al-Qa'ida or the Taliban.
Press release about Zindani's designation under Executive Order 13224 and the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.
جامعة الإيمان
is his compound in Sana'a where people study Islam and fiqh for ten years. It has served al-Qa'ida to some extent as a front for the entry of recruits into Yemen, there to be supplied with travel documents and a letter of introduction to join al-Qa'ida members elsewhere.
Other websites controlled by his people:
http://www.icsfp.com
http://www.nusrah.com
http://www.nusrah.tv
http://www.whymuhammad.com
http://www.islam-guide.com
http://www.islamreligion.com
http://www.thisistruth.org
http://www.truth.org.ye
Zindani is a cult leader as much as he is a Salafist. He goes to much length to argue that a lot of modern scientific knowledge was anticipated in the the 80,000 or so words of the qur'aan, written in the Sixth Century. Zindani even claims to have found a cure for AIDS in the qur'aan, after fifteen years of such "analysis". Consequently many Sunnis regard Zindani as a major heretic, as they do Haroun Yahya and the late Rashad Khalifa.
Zindani's importance to al-Qa'ida is tied to his money and the power that he wields in largely tribal Yemen. Online, he is rarely mentioned by name by other Sunni terrorists.
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