AN ENDURING THREAT: EUROPE’S ISLAMIST TERROR NETWORKS THEN AND NOW 433 SAMI ZARROUK aka Abu Hudayfa al-Tunisi Role: 434 435 Member of the Zerkani network and IS fighter. Bio: 436 437 Tunisian-born Sami Zarrouk was born on 13 September 1983 and lived in Molenbeek, Brussels, 438 where he attended Khalid Zerkani’s meetings. According to leaked IS administrative documents he 439 claims to have been in Belgium for four years and to have previously worked in media. He is reported to have tried to convince his wife to travel with him to Afghanistan to become a suicide bomber, and in 440 July 2013 travelled to Syria. He is described by IS as having been dispatched to Homs. Foreign training/combat: IS fighter. Movements: 441 Zarrouk told IS he had visited France. He travelled to join IS in Syria via Rome then 442 Turkey. Criminal history: Unknown. Known to the authorities: He was convicted in absentia in July 2015 in relation to the Zerkani network. An international warrant for his arrest was issued by Belgian authorities in February 2015.443 Networks and associates: Zerkani network: -! Khalid Zerkani [Zarrouk attended meetings led by Zerkani at Mosque Loqman 444 and in Molenbeek apartments]. See Khalid Zerkani profile for full list of other network associates Zarrouk may have associated with. REDA KRIKET Role: Kriket is the main suspect in a foiled Paris attack, charged with possessing and transporting arms 445 and explosives and holding fake documents. Convicted in absentia as part of the Zerkani network and 446 claimed to be one of the network’s financiers, allegedly providing €12,000 to help recruits join IS. Bio : Little is known about the background of 34-year-old French national Kriket. He appears to have had a history of petty crime, including theft, before travelling to Syria in 2014. In July 2015, he was sentenced 447 to ten years in prison in absentia for recruiting people to fight in Syria. Kriket was arrested in Boulogne- ! ! 433 ‘ISIS-registration form’, Instagram, available at: https://www.instagram.com/p/BFUaytrPGyb/?taken-by=akhbaralaan, last visited: 9 August 2016. 434 Dalton, M., ‘Investigators Home In on Scope of Terror Network Behind Brussels, Paris Attacks’, The Wall Street Journal, 4 April 2016. 435 ‘ISIS-registration form’, Instagram. 436 Dalton, M., ‘Investigators Home In on Scope of Terror Network Behind Brussels, Paris Attacks’, The Wall Street Journal, 4 April 2016. 437 ‘ISIS-registration form’, Instagram. 438 Dalton, M., ‘Investigators Home In on Scope of Terror Network Behind Brussels, Paris Attacks’, The Wall Street Journal, 4 April 2016. 439 ‘ISIS-registration form’, Instagram. 440 Dalton, M., ‘Investigators Home In on Scope of Terror Network Behind Brussels, Paris Attacks’, The Wall Street Journal, 4 April 2016. 441 ‘ISIS-registration form’, Instagram. 442 Dalton, M., ‘Investigators Home In on Scope of Terror Network Behind Brussels, Paris Attacks’, The Wall Street Journal, 4 April 2016. 443 ibid.! 444 ibid. 445 Mortimer, C., ‘Reda Kriket: Main suspect charged in connection with foiled Paris attack plot’, Independent, 30 March 2016. 446 Dalton, M., ‘Investigators Home In on Scope of Terror Network Behind Brussels, Paris Attacks’, The Wall Street Journal, 4 April 2016. 447 ‘French attack plot: Reda Kriket 'had weapons cache'’, BBC News, 31 March 2016, available at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-35932170, last visited: 9 August 2016; and Mortimer, C., ‘Reda Kriket: Main suspect charged in connection with foiled Paris attack plot’, Independent, 30 March 2016. ! ! 38 !