Ahmed Brahim (born 1945) is a convicted
al-Qaeda
Al-Qaeda (; , ) is an Islamic extremism, Islamic extremist organization composed of Salafist jihadists. Its members are mostly composed of Arab, Arabs, but also include other peoples. Al-Qaeda has mounted attacks on civilian and military ta ...
member from
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. Spanish authorities arrested him in 2002 on charges that he was a chief financier for al-Qaeda in
Spain
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. He is also alleged to have been a planner in the bombing of two US embassies in
Kenya
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and
Tanzania
Tanzania (; ), officially the United Republic of Tanzania ( sw, Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania), is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region. It borders Uganda to the north; Kenya to the northeast; Comoro Islands and ...
in 1998. Brahim is married to a Finnish national identified as Pirjo. Spanish counter-terrorism judge
Baltasar Garzón
Baltasar Garzón Real (; born 26 October 1955) is a former Spanish judge. Garzón formerly served on Spain's central criminal court, the ''Audiencia Nacional'', and was the examining magistrate of the ''Juzgado Central de Instrucción No. 5'', ...
has also alleged that Ahmed Brahim had "routine contacts" with Swiss-born Islamic scholar
Tariq Ramadan
Tariq Ramadan ( ar, طارق رمضان, ; born 26 August 1962) is a Swiss Muslim academic, philosopher, and writer. He was a professor of contemporary Islamic studies at St Antony's College, Oxford and the Faculty of Theology and Religion, Univ ...
in 1999.
References
External links
Official site of Ahmed BrahimSpain holds al-Qaeda finance suspectWhy Revoke Tariq Ramadan's U.S. Visa?
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Algerian al-Qaeda members
Living people
1945 births
Algerian people imprisoned abroad
Prisoners and detainees of Spain
People imprisoned on charges of terrorism
21st-century Algerian people