Word: salafist
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...European Union?s vaunted freedom of movement has far outpaced judicial cooperation. After the first arrests in Milan last April, Italian prosecutor Dambruoso issued a warrant for another figure associated with the cell, Tarek Maaroufi, referred to in Italian court papers as one of the "spiritual heads of the Salafist Group with a basic function of indoctrinating recruits." But Maaroufi lives in Belgium as a Belgian citizen, and no European Union country extradites its own citizens. The Belgian authorities contend that the Italians have not provided sufficient grounds for his arrest, nor have they seen fit to hand over...
ALGERIA In the past four years, al-Qaeda has increasingly used terrorists from Algerian allies like the Armed Islamic Group and the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat...