Kamel Daoudi

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Kamel Daoudi (born August 3, 1974, in

French court after his deportation and was sentenced to nine years in jail.[1] He has been consequently stripped of 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

French government[how?
] as France wanted to prevent Algeria from becoming an Islamic country. In the early 1990s, Daoudi’s family suffered from income reductions and moved to a lower-class suburb, which made him very bitter about French society. He joined the Takfir wal-Hijra group led by Algerian Djamel Beghal.[3] Later, Daoudi graduated in Paris 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][4][5]

Arrest and trial

Daoudi was arrested on September 29, 2001, by the British police in connection with the

Al Qaeda
and was supposed to assemble the car bomb for the US embassy attack. Daoudi’s trial, alongside five more defendants in the US Paris Embassy case, began on January 4, 2005, in Paris,
Paris court and was sentenced to nine years in jail.[6]

References

  1. ^ a b "Al-Qaeda plotters sentenced." BBC.
  2. ^ R.R (2012-03-30). "Carmaux. A la rue mais assigné à résidence". LA DEPECHE. Retrieved 11 April 2012.
  3. ^ CNN Article about the arrest of Beghal
  4. PBS
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  5. ^ "Terror Verdict For Soccer Pro". CBS News.
  6. ^ "Dutch court frees terror suspects." CNN.

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