Abdelmajid Dahoumane (; born January 6, 1967, in

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) was wanted by the

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in connection with the 2000 Millennium Plot to blow up

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Life

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member, he is considered a close associate of

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, the two of them having spent three weeks together in a

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hotel room prior to Ressam's arrest. At his trial, Ressam testified in 2001 that Dahoumane had helped to build the explosives at that time, but that he had not told Dahoumane the intended target. On March 25, 2001, the

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n government announced they had Dahoumane in custody, but would not

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him to stand trial in the

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- instead they preferred to try him in their own courts as an example to their population who have been plagued by Fundamentalist violence.

References

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