Ali Mohamed & The 1980's: The CIA's Spy Who Trained Afghan Mujahid In Brooklyn

Ali Mohamed, a native of Egypt while serving as a major in the Army, offered his services to the CIA station in Cairo to act as a spy. They accept, however his allegiance was not just to the CIA but also to Al Jihad, a radical Egyptian militant group led by Ayman al-Zawahiri. Mohammed would warn Hezbollah militants in a mosque that he is a spy for the CIA, the agency allegedly refuses to work with him again. By September 1985, Mohamed travels to the United states and becomes a citizen. One year later he enlists at the US Army and becomes an instructor at Fort Bragg in North Carolina. Mohamed gathers intelligence about the Army and U.S. infrastructure during his time as a drill instructor and support sergeant. By 1988, he travels to Afghanistan to fight the Soviet Union. During this time, it is widely believed that he continued to train cells of terrorists using the information learned while living in the U.S. After a month he returned to the United States and begins training members of the Al Kifah Refugee Center and Al Farouq Mosque, while it is being monitored by the FBI, in small arms training, map reading and bomb making.