A man named Djamel Geghal is mentioned in this artilce - Google Translation - Snippet:
FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 2010 - 08:07
“An Algerian Islamist breaks his house arrest”
SNIPPET: “Algerian Islamist U n 35, Kamel Daoudi, was sentenced yesterday to six months by the firm Criminal Court Gueret for non-compliance with house arrest.
In 2005 he was sentenced on appeal to six years in prison for conspiracy in connection with a terrorist enterprise for planning an attack against the embassy of the United States in Paris he had served his sentence. Deprived of French nationality after his arrest September 25, 2001 in Leicester, United Kingdom, Kamel Daoudi was under house arrest in a hotel Aubusson since 2008, pending his deportation to Algeria, his homeland.”
SNIPPET: “Born in the town Sedrata Algerian, Kamel Daoudi arrived in France at the age of 5 years. Computer training, he is seduced by the ideas of radical Islam and ends up with Djamel Beghal in training camps in Afghanistan.
After his arrest in Britain, it will appear as a defendant in the trial network Djamel Beghal in March 2005. Both men will be sentenced to ten years imprisonment, Kamel Daoudi was regarded as “religious mentor” of the group. His sentence will be reduced to six years on appeal.”
1999? - 2004 : (TARIQ RAMADAN TRAVELS BACK AND FORTH TO THE USA MORE THAN 30 TIMES IN THIS PERIOD) He has traveled to America without problems more than 30 times in the last five years, he said. These travels included a visit last fall [2003] to the State Department, where he delivered a lecture on European Muslims to diplomats and officials from the F.B.I. and C.I.A., he said. Mr. Ramadan has lectured Scotland Yard officers on European Muslim communities, too. ————Mystery of the Islamic Scholar Who Was Barred by the U.S. [Tariq Ramadan]
New York Times ^ | WED October 6, 2004 | DEBORAH SONTAG
Djamel Beghal (also transliterated as Jamel Beghal and Djamel Begal) is a French Algerian and alleged Al-Qaida member.
Beghal had once lived in London and attended the Finsbury Park mosque along with Richard Reid, Zacarias Moussaoui, Nizar Trabelsi, the Courtailler brothers, and other Al-Qaida suspects.
OCTOBER 2000 : (EUROPE : BELGIUM : DIAMOND HEIST AT ZAVENTUM NATIONAL AIRPORT; NIZAR TRABELSI {See BELGIUM CELL, US EMBASSY PARIS PLOT, DRUG & DIAMOND TRAFFICKING} IS INVOLVED --- See AL-QAEDA, BELGIUM CELL , NETHERLANDS/ROTTERDAM CELL) Thieves steal five trunks of diamonds in a hold-up on the tarmac of Brussels airport, as staff were preparing to transfer the diamonds, valued at 6.5 million euro (US$10.93 million) to a Lufthansa flight from Brussels to Frankfurt. Later, VTM television in 2001 said Belgian investigators believe the haul by four robbers of five trunks of diamonds at Brussels airport had gone to fund al-Qaeda and Afghanistan's former Taliban regime. It said the investigators believed Nizar Trabelsi, a Tunisian arrested late in 2001 in Brussels and suspected of planning an attack on the US embassy in Paris, was linked to the robbery. The raids were carried out in Brussels and the nearby towns of Vilvoorde, Wavre and Nivelles, VTM said. Investigators later carried out raids on Islamists as part of an inquiry into the robberies of diamonds. --?
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********** Nizar Trabelsi was already known for his activities tied to drugs and diamond trafficking and according to some sources a large sum of money was transferred to Afghanistan through him at a date close to the heist.===== ------- "The European Terrorism Review for July 2002 - Part Two," AFI Intelligence Briefing - 5th July 2002 RICHARD BENNETT MEDIA From our Belgian correspondent, a leading European Intelligence analyst, NJV – nnjv_risk@btopenworld.com - http://www.nnjv.btinternet.co.uk/OWLOSINTmain.htm
SEPTEMBER 13, 2001 : (BELGIUM : INVESTIGATORS FIND CHEMICAL FORMULA FOR MAKING A BOMB IN NIZAR TRABELSI'S APARTMENT; THE FORMULA INCLUDES HYDRAZINE ) Moreover, hydrazine was also one of the products on Nizar Trabelsi's notorious "shopping list". Two days after the 11 September attacks, investigators found in Trabelsi's apartment a chemical formula for making a bomb. He would also use hydrazine for his bomb, it emerged from the formula. - "BELGIAN PROBE LINKS POWDER SCARE TO IRAQ WAR OR TERROR TRIAL," from the De Standaard web site, Groot-Bijgaarden, in Dutch, 5 Jun 03 via BBC Monitoring International Reports June 5, 2003
MARCH 2002 : (ABU ZUBAYDA IS CAPTURED - See US EMBASSY-PARIS PLOT, NIZAR TRABELSI) [Nizar] Trabelsi was allegedly to serve as the suicide bomber in the [US] embassy [-Paris] plot. The prosecution claimed the plot to attack the U.S. Embassy was concocted in Afghanistan with leading al Qaeda lieutenant Abu Zubaydah, who was captured in March 2002. ---------- "France Convicts 6 In Terror Plot," AP via CBSNews.com, PARIS, March 15, 2005, http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/03/15/world/main680273.shtml
NOVEMBER 2002 : (REPORT : -- See BELGIUM, US EMBASSY PLOTS, MILBASEPLOTS) An al-Qa'eda terrorist has confessed that he planned to drive a giant explosive device into a United States air force bunker in Belgium believed to contain nuclear warheads. News of the plot came as America gave warning that a broadcast thought to contain the words of Osama bin Laden foreshadowed a likely attack. The FBI said national landmarks, the aviation, oil and nuclear industries were possible targets.
In an interview with a Belgian radio station, Nizar Trabelsi, 31, a Tunisian former professional footballer, said he had hoped to attack the Kleine Brogel base in eastern Belgium with a bomb similar to those used to blow up the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998. The base includes a munitions store and is said by anti-nuclear groups to contain 20 free-fall nuclear bombs.
"I am guilty, I will have to pay for it. What I did is not good, but I had no choice," he said in the radio interview from his cell. When asked by RTBF, the Belgian public radio station, if Kleine Brogel was his target he replied: "Yes, exactly."
His confession marked the first known al-Qa'eda plot to attack a nuclear target in Europe. Since September 11 last year security at nuclear installations has been strengthened across the continent, with some civil sites guarded by missile systems.
The former German league player lived in London in the late 1990s and listened to sermons from the Islamic cleric Abu Qatada, who has been linked to al-Qa'eda. When arrested last year [2001] he was suspected of involvement in an al-Qa'eda plot to attack the American embassy in Paris. Trabelsi said he had met bin Laden during a visit to Afghanistan.--------(AL QAEDA) Terrorist planned nuclear base raid The Daily Telegraph ^ | November 16, 2002 | Philip Delves Broughton
DECEMBER 2007 : (BELGIUM : INVESTIGATION BEGINS AFTER INTERCEPTION OF TERRORIST PLANS TO HELP AL QAEDA-IN-BELGIUM LEADER NIZAR TRABELSI ESCAPE FROM PRISON --See BELGIUM CELL, MALIKA AL-AROUD, US EMBASSY-PARIS PLOT) The investigation by Belgian authorities began in Dec. 2007, following interception of plans to help convicted al Qaeda in Belgium leader Nizar Trabelsi escape from jail. Police say they concentrated their probe on a group of Belgian Islamic extremists who traveled to either Afghanistan or Pakistan to participate in combat and undergo training and who are “closely linked” to “important al Qaeda figures.””----“Belgians Arrest 14 In Terror Raids” CBSNEWS, DECEMBER 12, 2008 --Posted by Sheila MacVicar| December 11, 2008, 7:21 AM, http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/12/11/world/worldwatch/entry4661854.shtml 8 posted on Thursday, December 11, 2008 10:28:13 PM by Cindy | To 5
But of course Mr. Ramadan had no idea that his speech writer was involved in this sort of thing.