Slimane Khalfaoui

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Slimane Khalfaoui (born 1975, Algeria) was a French-Algerian terrorist convicted of the Strasbourg cathedral bombing plot in 2004 and was sentenced to 10 years in prison at a French court in Paris, France. He has a marriage to a French-Muslim woman during his arrest.^[1]

Early life

Khalfaoui became a wanted fugitive by French authorities since 1996 for participating in an Algerian terrorist network that plotted to carry out attacks across France and Europe. In March 1998, Khalfaoui attended al-Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan with Ahmed Ressam from Montreal, Canada and one of the members of the "millennium bombing".^[2]^[3]

Arrest

He was one of the plotters of the Strasbourg plot in 2000 and was fully correlated with Abu Doha, the ringleader. Khalfaoui with Algerian-British Rabah Kadre, participated in a reported attempt to attack the London Underground, with poisoning substances scheduled in late 2002. He was arrested in France by French authorities on November 2002 following the arrest of Rabah Kadre in London by British police on the same day.^[4]

When the French police came to arrest him, he tried to escape from a second-floor window during an early morning raid at his sister's apartment in the Paris suburb east of Montfermeil, but he was overpowered and arrested a few minutes later.^[5]

2004 Trial

Khalfaoui was charged and brought to trial alongside Mohamed Bensakhria and four more defendants at a Paris, France court in October 2004. Khalfaoui was sentenced to 10 years in jail on December 2004 for his role in the Strasbourg plot.^[6]^[7]

References

↑ France Convicts Islamic Militants - CBS.com
↑ "The Terrorist Within, Chapter 7: Joining Jihad", The Seattle Times, June 27, 2002, March 1, 2010
↑ U.K. releases 2nd suspect linked to bin Laden
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↑ "'Shoe bomber' arrests in Paris". BBC. 26 November 2002. Retrieved 24 August 2011.
↑ "Terroriste (French)". Free Pages Personalles. Retrieved 24 August 2011.
↑ "France Convicts Islamic Militants". CBS News. Retrieved 24 August 2011.

v t e Alleged militants in the War on Terror who have lived in Algeria

Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat	Nabil Sahraouiǂ Samir Moussaabǂ Abu Doha Rabah Kadre Slimane Khalfaoui Mohamed Bensakhria

Held at the Guantanamo Bay detainment camps	Mustafa Ahmed Hamlily The Algerian Six: Bensayah Belkacem Hadj Boudella Lakhdar Boumediene Sabir Mahfouz Lahmar Mustafa Ait Idr Mohammed Nechle

Alleged members of al-Qaeda and al-Jihad	Abu Sulayman Jazairiǂ Ahmed Brahim†

Armed Islamic Group	Abdelhak Layada° Djamel Zitouni

Other	Laid Saidi Abdelmajid Dahoumane Djamel Beghal Ahmed Ressam Kamel Daoudi

† denotes currently imprisoned, ° denotes legal release after serving a sentence, ǂ denotes deceased subjects

v t e Alleged militants in the War on Terror who have lived in France

Alleged associates of al-Qaeda	Willie Brigitte Hervé Djamel Loiseau Zacarias Moussaoui

Alleged associates of GIA	Karim Said Atmani

Alleged associates of GICM	Karim el-Mejjati

Held in Guantanamo Bay	Mourad Benchellali Imad Kanouni Nizar Sassi Brahim Yadel Ridouane Khalid Khaled Ben Mustafa

Others	Karim Bourti Jerôme Courtailler Djamel Beghal Nizar Trabelsi Hassan Jandoubi Lionel Dumont Kamel Daoudi Rabah Kadre Slimane Khalfaoui

Persondata
Name	Khalfaoui, Slimane
Alternative names
Short description	Algerian terrorist
Date of birth	1975
Place of birth
Date of death
Place of death

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