Photo: Bulent Kilic/AFPAFP · 17 Sep 2016, 07:20Published: 17 Sep 2016 07:20 GMT+02:00The United States on Friday designated French jihadist recruiter Omar Diaby a "global terrorist" subject to US economic sanctions, the State Department said. "Diaby came to the attention of French intelligence due to his involvement with a French extremist group and his online propaganda video series," it added. And Diaby -- or "Emir Omar Omsen" -- has been in the crosshairs of French intelligence for some time. He was a member of Forsane Alizza, a small Islamist group that was broken up in 2012 by the French government for fomenting extremism among young French Muslims. Now that Diaby is a "Specially Designated Global Terrorist" under US law, American firms and individuals are barred from associating or doing business with him.

Source: The Local September 16, 2016 17:48 UTC