Ahmed Brahim

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Ahmed Brahim (born 1945) is a convicted Al-Qaeda member from Algeria. He was arrested by Spanish authorities in 2002 on charges that he was a chief financer for al-Qaeda in Spain. He is also alleged to have been a planner in the bombing of two US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998. Brahim is married to a Finnish national indentified as Pirjo. Spanish counter-terrorism judge Baltasar Garzón has also alleged that Ahmed Brahim had "routine contacts" with Swiss-born Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan in 1999.