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...Reid, after spending a while there, moved to the Finsbury Park mosque in north London, notorious for the radicalism of its message and the number of suspected terrorists who have worshipped there. Moussaoui was a regular at Finsbury Park, as were other al-Qaeda operatives, such as Djamel Beghal and probably Kamel Daoudi, two Frenchmen currently being held for their alleged role in a plot to blow up the American embassy in Paris. Nizar Trabelsi, a Tunisian former professional soccer player now being held in Belgium, who is alleged to have been the designated suicide bomber in the Paris-embassy...
...terrorism overseas and financing terrorism. Benmerzouga is also charged with al-Qaeda membership, helping finance operations and possessing racially inflammatory videos. They were arrested on Sept. 25 with Franco-Algerian terrorist suspect Kamel Daoudi, now in custody in France. All three are suspected of links to Djamel Beghal, another Franco-Algerian detained in France and believed to be a key associate of Osama bin Laden. Beghal lived in London and Leicester in the mid-1990s, frequenting extremist mosques. Even suspected shoe-bomber Richard Reid, the Anglo-Jamaican accused of trying to blow up an American Airlines plane, is alleged...
Leicester, a manufacturing town in the English Midlands with a large Muslim community and exemplary race relations, is emerging as a hub for suspected Algerian terror-related activities. Apart from Beghal, Daoudi, Meziane and Benmerzouga, French brothers David and Jerome Courtellier - the latter arrested in the Netherlands on suspicion of terrorism - also apparently stayed in Leicester. Raids by antiterrorist police in the town two weeks ago scooped up nine Algerian suspects. Terrorism charges were subsequently dropped against all of them, but five are being investigated for credit-card fraud...
...ARRESTS/DETENTIONS] Eight people are still in custody as part of the so-called Beghal network. Djamel Beghal, first picked up in Dubai, has said he received his orders from bin Laden lieutenant Abu Zubaydah...
...FOILED TERRORIST ATTACK] Beghal described a plan to blow up the U.S. embassy in Paris. An earlier plot, uncovered last December, targeted Strasbourg cathedral...