Ramadan Shalah

On becoming secretary-general of PIJ, Shalah was designated a Specially Designated Terrorist (SDT) by the United States on 27 November 1995. In 2006, he was placed on the United States FBI Most Wanted Terrorists list.

Early life Shalah was born in Shuja'iyya, a neighborhood in Gaza City. Shalah earned a Ph.D. in banking and economics from the University of Durham in England.

Professor Sami Al-Arian helped bring Shalah to the University of South Florida, in Tampa, Florida, where Shalah taught as an adjunct professor. Al-Arian and Shalah founded an Islamic think tank, World and Islamic Studies Enterprise (WISE). Shalah left the organization in 1995 to head Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ).

In February 2003, al-Arian, Shalah and five others were indicated by the United States Department of Justice for supporting the PIJ and relatives of operatives who committed attacks against civilians in Israel.

Palestinian Islamic Jihad activity Shalah became PIJ secretary-general 1995 after the assassination of its previous leader Fathi Shiqaqi in Malta. On becoming secretary-general of PIJ, the United States named Shalah a Specially Designated Terrorist and offered a $5 million reward for information leading to his arrest or conviction on 27 November 1995. Shalah was wanted for conspiracy to conduct the affairs of the PIJ through a pattern of racketeering activities such as bombings, murders, extortion, and money laundering.

For that indictment, Shalah then became one of six alleged and indicted terrorist fugitives among the second and most recent group of indicted fugitives to be added to the United States FBI Most Wanted Terrorists list on 24 February 2006, Iqtiṣādīyāt al-mālīyah al-ʻāmmah wa-al-niẓām al-mālī fī al-Islām, al-Jāmiʻāt al-Islāmiyah, 1984, 359 p. On Islamic economics, particularly public finance. al-Gharb wa-al-ṣirāʻ ʻalá Filasṭīn fī al-qarn al-ḥādī wa-al-ʻishrīn, Markaz Filasṭīn lil-Dirāsāt wa-al-Buḥūth, 1999, 35 p. On the West when it comes to the Palestinian struggle. Fī ʻayn al-ʻāṣifah : al-ḥiwār al-hāmm wa-al-shāmil alladhī ajratʹhu ṣaḥīfat al-Ḥayāh al-Landanīyah maʻa Amīn ʻĀmm Ḥarakat al-Jihād al-Islāmī fī Filasṭīn al-Duktūr Ramaḍān ʻAbd Allāh Shallaḥ, Bisan, 2003, 112 p. Interviews.