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– LYON CELL

Lyon Cell operated from southern France town of Lyon from early 2000, as a reaction to the second Russian invasion to Chechnya, up to the arrest on 12/17/2002 of its senior activists Continue reading

– BARCELONA NET

Barcelona net managed to smuggle out of Spain some of the most wanted terrorist for committing the Madrid trains bombing: Said Berraj, Mohamed Belhadj, Mohammed Afalah and Daoud Ouhnane. Continue reading

– SLIMANE KHALFAOUI

Slimane Khalfaoui was born in Algeria in 1975. He has a joint French-Algerian nationality. Continue reading

– FOUAD SABOUR

Fouhad Sabour, a French citizen was born in 1965 in Algeria. He was a member of the Algerian Islamist party - FIS. When the civil war in Algeria erupted in 01/1992 Fouhad Sabour was one of the first to join the Armed Islamic Group, known in its French acronym – GIA. Continue reading

– FATEH KAMEL

Fateh Kamel was born in Algeria in 1961. He joined the war in Afghanistan in the mid 80s’. In 1988 Fateh Kamel left Afghanistan and moved to Montreal, Canada. Continue reading

– RABAH KADRI (KADRE)

Rabah Kadri alias Toufik was born in Algeria in 1967. He was a former member of the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat - (GSPC). Continue reading

– STRASBOURG PLOT

In the week of Christmas 2000 a group of Muslims, all from Algerian descent, planed to scatter poison in the markets of Strasbourg, France, to plant bombs in crowded public places and to spray poison in the Cathedral of Strasburg at the 2000 Christmas Mass. Continue reading

– FRANCE

France, in Western Europe, has a population of about 63 millions people (05/2007) and stretches on 549,000 km. About 10% of the population is from Muslim countries that were once French colonies. Continue reading

– ZACARIAS MOUSSAOUI

Zacarias Moussaoui, a French citizen, was born in south west France to a family of Moroccan descent on 05/30/1968. His mother raised him and other three brothers alone on a house cleaning salary. Although Zacarias Moussaouis’ family was Muslim he grew in a moderate and tolerant atmosphere. Continue reading
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