Kamel Daoudi

Kamel Daoudi born (August, 3rd 1974, Algeria) is a French-Algerian convicted to blow up a US embassy in Paris on June 2002 and later Daoudi was deported from London, UK by the UK Border Agency. He pleaded guilty in a French court after his deportation and was sentenced to 9 years in jail.^[1] He has been consequently stripped of the French citizenship and the French government tried to deport him to Algeria which was refused by the European Court of Human Rights.^[2]

Life

His father worked in France a long time ago. In 1979 all the family emigrated from Algeria to France to have a better life. Daoudi grew up in a middle class suburb apartment of Paris and was considered a good student in school. After the end of 1992, when the civil war erupted out in Algeria, Daoudi began to help the French government because France did everything possible to ensure that Algeria would not be a full Islamic country . In the early 90s, Daoudi’s family suffered also from decline in its income returns and was forced to move to a lower class suburbs which made him very bitter about the French society. He joined the Takfir wal-hijra group led by Algerian Jamel Beghal. Later, Daoudi graduated in Paris, France as a computer engineer and a computer expert and ran a French government-subsidized computer internet cafe in a Paris suburb. In 2000 and 2001, Daoudi went through training in Al Qaeda’s training camps in Afghanistan and was qualified in handling explosives to bomb.^[1][3][4]

Arrest and Trial

Daoudi was arrested on September 29, 2001 by the British police in connection with the US Paris Embassy plot, after he was deported from London, where he was detained, on September 25, 2001, following the arrest of Brahim Benmerzouga and Baghdad Meziane. According to the indictment, he used the internet café in Paris to communicate with Al Qaeda and was supposed to assemble the car bomb for the US embassy attack. Daoudi’s trial, alongside 5 more defendants in the US Paris Embassy case, began on January 4, 2005 in Paris, France. On March 15, 2005 Daoudi was convicted on all charges against him in a Paris court and was sentenced to 9 years in jail.^[5]

References

External links

• CNN Article about the arrest of Beghal
• CNN Article about four men found not guilty
• Article about Trabelsi arrested
• Large Europe Al-Qaida network stopped
• Guardian.co.uk information about Paris plot
• International Institute of Counter Terrorism website about the plot

Alleged militants in the War on Terror who have lived in Algeria Deceased persons listed in italics. Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat Nabil Sahraoui Samir Moussaab Abu Doha Rabah Kadre Slimane Khalfaoui Mohamed Bensakhria Held at Guantanamo Bay Mustafa Ahmed Hamlily Algerian Six Bensayah Belkacem Hadj Boudella Lakhdar Boumediene Sabir Mahfouz Lahmar Mustafa Ait Idr Mohammed Nechle Alleged al-Qaeda / al-Jihad members Abu Sulayman Jazairi Ahmed Brahim1 Armed Islamic Group Abdelhak Layada2 Djamel Zitouni Others Laid Saidi Abdelmajid Dahoumane Djamel Beghal Ahmed Ressam Kamel Daoudi 1 Currently imprisoned.   2 Released after serving sentence.

Alleged militants in the War on Terror who have lived in France Deceased persons listed in italics. Toulouse and Montauban shootings Mohammed Merah 2013 La Défense attack Alexandre Dhaussy 2015 Île-de-France attacks Chérif and Saïd Kouachi Amedy Coulibaly Alleged al-Qaeda associates Willie Brigitte Hervé Djamel Loiseau Zacarias Moussaoui Alleged GIA associates Karim Said Atmani Alleged GICM associates Karim el-Mejjati Held in Guantanamo Bay Mourad Benchellali Imad Achab Kanouni Nizar Sassi Brahim Yadel Ridouane Khalid Khaled Ben Mustafa ISIS fighters Hayat Boumeddiene Others Karim Bourti Jérôme Courtailler Djamel Beghal Nizar Trabelsi Hassan Jandoubi Lionel Dumont Kamel Daoudi Rabah Kadre Slimane Khalfaoui 1 Currently imprisoned.   2 Released after serving sentence.