AN ENDURING THREAT: EUROPE’S ISLAMIST TERROR NETWORKS THEN AND NOW -! Abu Doha network: Abu Doha [Khalfaoui is claimed to have had “indirect contact” with Abu 779 Doha]. Al-Qaeda: 780 -! Ahmed Ressam [Ressam plotted to bomb LAX Airport in Los Angeles and had 781 “crossed paths” with Khalfaoui in Afghanistan]. RABAH KADRE Role: 782 Convicted of involvement in the plot to bomb Strasbourg Christmas market. Bio: 783 An Algerian national based in the UK, Kadre helped to establish Abu Doha’s European network of extremists. He was regarded as his “second in command”, and had been spotted inside Finsbury Park Mosque in 1998. Following Doha’s arrest in February 2001, he is believed to have taken over much of Doha’s role as leader of the network – having been arrested himself and then released, disappearing for 784 18 months. In November 2002, Kadre was arrested again, this time suspected of involvement with a plot 785 to carry out a ricin attack and was charged in February 2003, while a warrant for his arrest in relation to 786 the Strasbourg plot had been issued by the French authorities the same month he was arrested. Kadre 787 was convicted in the UK of owning a false passport after the ricin-related charges were dropped, and was then convicted in absentia by a French court of “of criminal association with a terrorist enterprise” in 788 relation to the Strasbourg plot and given a six year prison term. He was then held in the UK while he awaited extradition to France, and was transferred in June 2006. He was released in April 2008 and 789 deported to Algeria. Foreign training/combat: 790 Unknown. Is alleged to have been a member of the GSPC. Movements: UK (Unclear). Criminal history: 791 Convicted of owning a false passport (2003); Convicted of “of criminal association with 792 a terrorist enterprise” in 2004. Known to the authorities: Identified in 1998 by intelligence agents in Finsbury Park Mosque and 793 monitored until his arrest in 2002. ! ! 779 ‘Brothers-in-law, one considered key player, investigated in French Strasbourg bomb plot’, Associated Press International, 29 November 2002. 780 ‘Ahmed Ressam’s Millennium Plot’, Frontline, available at: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/trail/inside/cron.html, last visited: 9 August 2016. 781 ‘Brothers-in-law, one considered key player, investigated in French Strasbourg bomb plot’, Associated Press International, 29 November 2002. 782 Cosgrove-Mather, B., ‘France Convicts Islamic Militants’, CBS News, 16 December 2004, available at: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/france-convicts-islamic- militants/, last visited: 9 August 2016. 783 Burrell, I. and John Lichfield, ‘Warning signs of Algerian terror cells as early as 1994’, Independent, 16 January 2003, available at: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/warning-signs-of-algerian-terror-cells-as-early-as-1994-124430.html, last visited: 9 August 2016. 784 O’Neill, S. and Daniel McGrory, The Suicide Factory: Abu Hamza and the Finsbury Park Mosque (London: Harper Collins, 2006), pp. 142, 240-1. 785 ‘Men on ricin charges’, BBC News, 26 February 2003, available at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2801309.stm, last visited: 9 August 2016. 786 ‘France moves for UK terror suspect’, BBC News, 30 November 2002, available at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2530773.stm, last visited: 9 August 2016. 787 ‘Cageprisoners Submission- Home Office Extradition Review’, Cageprisoners, undated, available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/117188/public-consultation-4.pdf, last visited: 9 August 2016. 788 ‘Jail for Strasbourg bomb plotters’, BBC News, 16 December 2004. 789 ‘Cageprisoners Submission- Home Office Extradition Review’, Cageprisoners, undated. 790 nd Stuart, H. et al., Islamist Terrorism: The British Connections, 2 edition (The Henry Jackson Society, 2011), pp. 445-6 791 ‘Cageprisoners Submission- Home Office Extradition Review’, Cageprisoners, undated. 792 ‘Jail for Strasbourg bomb plotters’, BBC News, 16 December 2004. 793 O’Neill, S. and Daniel McGrory, The Suicide Factory: Abu Hamza and the Finsbury Park Mosque (London: Harper Collins, 2006), pp. 240-1. ! ! 63 !