Ahmed Brahim (al-Qaeda)

Ahmed Brahim (born 1945) is a convicted al-Qaeda member from Algeria. Spanish authorities arrested him in 2002 on charges that he was a chief financier for al-Qaeda in Spain. He is also alleged to have been a planner in the bombing of two US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998. Brahim is married to a Finnish national identified as Pirjo. Spanish counter-terrorism judge Baltasar Garzón has also alleged that Ahmed Brahim had "routine contacts" with Swiss-born Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan in 1999.

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Alleged militants in the War on Terror who have lived in Algeria

People listed in italics have died.

Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat	Nabil Sahraoui Samir Moussaab Abu Doha Rabah Kadre Slimane Khalfaoui Mohamed Bensakhria

Held at Guantanamo Bay	Mustafa Ahmed Hamlily Algerian Six Bensayah Belkacem Hadj Boudella Lakhdar Boumediene Sabir Mahfouz Lahmar Mustafa Ait Idr Mohammed Nechle

Alleged al-Qaeda / al-Jihad members	Abu Sulayman Jazairi Ahmed Brahim¹

Armed Islamic Group	Abdelhak Layada² Djamel Zitouni

Others	Laid Saidi Abdelmajid Dahoumane Djamel Beghal Ahmed Ressam Kamel Daoudi

¹ Currently imprisoned. ² Released after serving sentence.

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