AN ENDURING THREAT: EUROPE’S ISLAMIST TERROR NETWORKS THEN AND NOW 698 Rabia, Adel Tobbichi [Tried and acquitted alongside Courtailler in 2002. Both convicted 699 alongside Courtailler in 2004]. 700 Finsbury Park Mosque: -! Abu Qatada [Courtailler met Qatada while living in London]. 2.2 Rotterdam Cell: Accomplices ABDELGHANI RABIA Role: Convicted in the Netherlands in 2004 for involvement in the 2001 plot to bomb the US Embassy in Paris. Bio: An Algerian national, Rabia was arrested in the days after the 9/11 attacks alongside Jerome 701 Courtailler. Accused of providing fake travel documents and credit cards to militants intending to carry out the attack on the US Embassy, he was acquitted by a Rotterdam court in 2002 after evidence was 702 ruled inadmissible. Following this, he is thought to have been deported to Algeria. In June 2004, he was 703 convicted in absentia after an appeal and was sentenced to four years in prison, and an arrest warrant 704 was issued. Foreign training/combat: Unknown. Movements: Unknown. Criminal history: Convicted in the Netherlands in 2004 for involvement in the 2001 plot to bomb the US Embassy in Paris. Known to the authorities: Unknown. Networks and associates: US Embassy and Cultural Centre plot (2001) -! : Jerome Courtailler, Adel Tobbichi [Tried and 705 706 acquitted alongside the two men in 2002 and convicted alongside them in 2004]. 707 AMINE MEZBAR aka Adel Tobbichi Role: Acquitted of involvement in the US Embassy bomb plot, but convicted alongside other members of the plot in June 2004 for belonging to a criminal group that produced false passports.708 ! ! 698 ‘Dutch prsecutors appeal acquittal of Islamic militants in bomb plot’, Agence France Presse, 19 December 2002. 699 ‘Dutch court jails two for terror links’, Agence France Presse, 21 June 2004. 700 Simcox, R. et al., ‘Islamist Terrorism: The British Connections’, The Henry Jackson Society (2011), p. 364. 701 ‘Dutch court jails terror supporters’, BBC News, 21 June 2004. 702 ‘Four men acquitted in first Dutch terrorism trial’, Associated Press International, 18 December 2002. 703 ‘Dutch court jails two for terror links’, Agence France Presse, 21 June 2004. 704 ‘Dutch appeal court jails embassy bomb plotters’, Daily Telegraph, 22 June 2004. 705 ‘Dutch prosecutors appeal acquittal of Islamic militants in bomb plot’, Agence France Presse, 19 December 2002. 706 ‘Dutch court jails two for terror links’, Agence France Presse, 21 June 2004. 707 ‘Paris bomb plot acquittal appealed’, Toronto Star, 20 December 2002. 708 ‘Dutch court jails two for terror links’, Agence France Presse, 21 June 2004. ! ! 57 !