Word: djamel
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...convinced that the U.K. has never played host to a formal al-Qaeda network - a judgment privately shared by the FBI. But London is clearly a center of coordination and direction. It appears well-established that suspected al-Qaeda operatives like Zacarias Moussaoui (detained in New York) and Djamel Beghal (detained in Paris) have imbibed the heady hatred of Sheik Abu Qatada, the Palestinian-born cleric who preaches in London and whose bank account has been frozen after appearing on a U.S. Treasury list of terrorist suspects. And like many others, Moussaoui and Beghal used London as a point...
Jarrah is beyond confessing, but investigators say they?ve interviewed other suspects who appear perfectly able to lead a Europeanized lifestyle while harboring deadly intentions against the West. One example: Djamel Beghal, purported leader of the cell alleged to have planned an attack on the U.S. embassy in Paris. According to a French police source, Beghal issues from the al-Qaeda-allied group Takfir wal Hijra (Anathema and Exile), whose members make a point of concealing their strict fundamentalism behind a Western fa?ade. "The goal of Takfir is to blend in to corrupt enemy societies in order to plot attacks...
...Djamel Beghal, 36 French-Algerian Status: Arrested July 28, in Dubai for traveling with a false French passport en route from Pakistan to France. Told investigators he was instructed by bin Laden associates to assemble a multicelled, Europe-based network for attacks on American targets in Paris. Has since recanted part of that confession...
...Some of the best leads on al-Qaeda's directorate now seem to be coming from Djamel Beghal, a French-Algerian who is suspected of being an al-Qaeda ringleader and who was arrested in Dubai in July on his way from Pakistan to Europe. After being convinced by Islamic scholars in Dubai of the evils of terrorism, Beghal started talking. (He is now back in France and has attempted to retract his confession.) Beghal has said that while in Afghanistan in March, he received instructions from Abu Zubaydah on a bombing campaign against American interests in Europe, including...
...FOILED A confession (since partly retracted) from suspected al-Qaeda insider Djamel Beghal...