Jamal Abaza

Jamal Abaza (aka Jind Allah) is a terrorist who appeared in Lessons Learned.

History
Jamal Abaza was born and raised in Egypt, likely in Cairo, and became an islamic cleric. In 1999, his son was killed in an airstrike that killed eleven others. The Egyptian government blamed Hezbollah, but a conspiracy theory on the streets claimed it was a joint U.S.-Israeli airstrike that went astray. Jamal apparently believed the latter, his protests making at least one headline in local newspapers. Eventually, he became a sworn enemy of the U.S., adopting the alias "Jind Allah", literally "solider of God", joined Al-Qaeda, moved to the U.S., became a member of the Militant Islamic Society, recruiting more members to the Omega Cell, a sleeper cell, as a prison imam. In 2006, he was caught trying to leave the country using a forged Pakistani passport from the Richmond International Airport and was brought to Guantanamo Bay and held as a ghost detainee. During his time there, he apparently had a three minutes long conversation with a fellow inmate in the shower line. Whatever he told him, it caused him to commit suicide the following night.

Two months later, when the DEA raided a suspected meth lab and found a device built by MIS members used to disperse anthrax, a communication radio registered to Jamal's alias was found. This was part of the MIS's plan, as it sent Gideon, Reid and Prentiss of the BAU to Guantanamo Bay to try and trick Jamal into revealing the plan, their arrival signaling to him that the plan was proceeding. Gideon led the questioning and even gave Jamal access to water and permission to pray regularly. They spent the following two days discussing their beliefs and ideologies as well as the Q'uaran and Jamal's past. At first, he retold the bombing that killed his son, except he told it as if he was a young boy who saw half of his family get killed in the airstrike. Later, when a DEA agent was killed during a raid on a fake MIS headquarters, Jamal opened up more and told Gideon the true story. During the whole time, Gideon kept lying about Jamal's prayer times, islamic prayers being required to be done at certain times of the day. Since he had no clocks available, Jamal trusted Gideon. The shortened intervals between the prayers gave Jamal the impression that the MIS attack had already taken place. This illusion was created by reducing the light and putting together a fake newscast. When Gideon asked to know the reasons for the "attack", Jamal mentioned that it would take place at the grand opening of a shopping center. When he did so, the BAU revealed the bluff, leaving Jamal distraught over having been tricked. He has presumably been kept at Guantanamo Bay ever since.

Appearance

 * Season Two
 * Lessons Learned