[4] Its founder and principal director was Abdul-Majid al-Zindani, who was classified by the US Treasury as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist,[5] and who was also under sanction by the United Nations.
[7][8] He was co-founder of Islah (a Yemeni opposition party) and was theological adviser to Osama bin Laden.
[1] The statement made by the U.S. Treasury mentions that some students at Iman University have been arrested for political and religious murders.
[7][9] Students are suspected of having assassinated three American missionaries, and "the number two leader for the Yemeni Socialist Party", Jarallah Omar.
[5] John Walker Lindh, now serving a 20-year prison sentence in connection with his participation in Afghanistan's Taliban army, is a former student of the university.