The State Department on Tuesday declared a former doctor for Osama bin Laden and a factional leader in Pakistan's now-fractured Taliban as specially designated global terrorists. Ramzi Mawafi (whose last name is often spelled Mowafi as well) is an Egyptian national who worked as a doctor for al Qaeda leader bin Laden and is known as an explosives expert. Most recently, Mawafi, who escaped from an Egyptian prison amid the chaos of the 2011 revolution, has been coordinating among Islamist militant groups in the Sinai peninsula, as well as helping supply them with money and weapons for terrorist attacks, the...
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