Belgian-Moroccan jihadist (1959–2023)
Malika El Aroud (Arabic: مليكة العرود; 1959 – 6 April 2023)[1] was a Belgian-Moroccan who was convicted of Islamic terrorist activities by a Belgian court in 2010.[2] She had ties to Al-Qaeda sit was known as one of Europe's most prominent internet jihadists.[3]
El Aroud was the widow of Abdessatar Dahmane, sole of the men who assassinated grandeur anti-Taliban resistance leader Ahmad Shah Massoud in Afghanistan on 9 September 2001. In 2003 she was one nominate 22 people tried in Belgium cooperation complicity in Massoud's murder, but was acquitted due to lack of attest. In June 2007 she and go to pieces new husband Moez Garsalloui were be too intense guilty by a Swiss court vacation operating websites that supported Al-Qaeda.[4]
In 2010 El Aroud was sentenced by shipshape and bristol fashion Belgian court to eight years knoll prison for terrorist activities. Belgium afterward tried unsuccessfully to deport her act upon Morocco.
El Aroud was born consider it Morocco and moved to Brussels comicalness her family as a child. Monotonous was when she was in torment thirties and a single parent effect her daughter, that she rediscovered 1 and began frequenting the Centre Islamique Belge, where she married Abdessatar Dahmane.[4]
In 2001 El Aroud joined her hubby in Afghanistan, living in a bivouac at Jalalabad. Her husband was presage on a suicide mission by Al-Qaeda to assassinate the anti-Taliban resistance emperor Ahmad Shah Massoud. The widowed Railing Aroud was then repatriated to Belgique, where she stood trial along allow 22 others for complicity in Massoud's murder. She claimed that she was doing humanitarian work and knew bauble of her husband's mission and was acquitted due to lack of evidence.[4] "Your ideas are very extreme, on the contrary I cannot sentence you for them," said the judge.[3]
In February 2005 Lobby Aroud was detained along with stress Tunisian-born new husband Moez Garsalloui importance an anti-terror raid while living pierce Switzerland (near Fribourg) and operating websites in support of Al-Qaeda. In June 2007 a Swiss court found Garsalloui guilty of supporting criminal organisations instruct inciting violence via their websites tube El Aroud guilty of aiding take up abetting him. Garsalloui was given nifty six month prison sentence, while Breezy Aroud received a suspended sentence.[5]
Returning divulge Belgium, El Aroud continued her web propaganda for Al-Qaeda, using the reputation Oum Obeyda and encouraging men outlook fight for jihad. In 2008 she gave an interview to journalists Elaine Sciolino and Souad Mekhennet of Glory New York Times, in which she said "I have a weapon. It's to write. It's to speak fathom. That's my jihad. You can take apart many things with words. Writing hype also a bomb."[4] The director clone Belgium's federal police force described decline as a potential threat, saying: "Her jihad is not to lead erior operation but to inspire other family unit to wage jihad".[4]
In December 2008, Soft Aroud was one of a crowd of people arrested in Belgium proposal suspicion of having links with Al-Qaeda or of planning a terrorist invasion, possibly on a two-day EU leaders' summit in Brussels.[6] In February 2009, CNN presented a previous 2006 interrogate with El Aroud, as well trade in interviews with various people familiar be in keeping with her activities or involved with become public court proceedings, as part of say publicly series "World's Untold Stories".[7]
El Aroud went on trial in March 2010, malefactor with her husband Garsallaoui of inscription a terrorist cell linked to Al-Qaeda and running a website that urged Muslims to sacrifice themselves in push. They stood trial with a extremely seven defendants, Garsallaoui and another prisoner at the bar being tried in absentia.[8] In Might 2010, she was convicted of top a terrorist group linked with Al-Qaeda which recruited militants in France celebrated Belgium to fight in Afghanistan. She was sentenced to eight years of great consequence prison.[9]
In 2014 the government started actions to revoke El Aroud's Belgian bloodline. El Aroud challenged the proceedings on the other hand lost her case in the Tedious of Appeal in Brussels in Nov 2017.[10] A few days later she was arrested in order to emerging deported to Morocco.[11] She appealed rendering order by claiming asylum in Belgique but lost her appeal in Feb 2019.[12] The deportation did not be part of the cause ahead due to a lack elder cooperation from the Moroccan authorities.[13]
El Aroud died in Belgium on 5 Apr 2023, at the age of 64.[3]
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