The State Department has declared the group a terrorist organization. In 1998, Mr. Khalil supported Mr. bin Laden's call for attacks on the United States and Western interests. After the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in the United States, Pakistan's president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, banned the group. Mr. Khalil dissolved his former group and created a new one, Jamiat-ul-Ansar.
On Friday, he exhorted listeners to participate in "jihad," or holy war, but did not to say where.