Iman University (also al-Iman University or el-Eman University; Arabic:

جامعة الإيمان‎; Jāmiʿat al-Īmān) is a Sunni religious school in San‘a’, Yemen.^[1][2] It is not a university in the Western sense of the word. Al-Iman means the Faith.

Its founder and principal director is Abdul-Majid al-Zindani, who is classified by the US Treasury as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist,^[3] and who is also under sanction by the United Nations as an affiliate of al-Qaeda.^[4] The Treasury statement mentions that some students at Iman University have been arrested for political and religious murders, that John Walker Lindh (who served in the Taliban army) was once a student there, and that the school has upwards of 5,000 enrollees.

Imam Anwar al-Awlaki, who has taken classes and lectured at Iman University, has also been linked to al-Qaeda.^[5]

[edit] External links

• Anwar al Awlaki: Pro Al-Qaida Ideologue with Influence in the West

[edit] References

1. ^ Arabic website of Iman University
2. ^ English website of Iman University
3. ^ United States Designates bin Laden Loyalist, United States Department of the Treasury
4. ^ UN 1267 Committee banned entity list
5. ^ Chucmach, Megan, and Ross, Brian, "Al Qaeda Recruiter New Focus in Fort Hood Killings Investigation Army Major Nidal Hasan Was In Contact With Imam Anwar Awlaki, Officials Say," ABC News, November 10, 2009, accessed November 12, 2009

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