Yacine Akhnouche
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Yacine Akhnouche is a joint citizen of France
and Algeria
who confessed to having ties to Al Qaeda.
Akhnouche is believed to have been an Al Qaeda recruiter. Akhnouche's alleged Al Qaeda associates include:
Akhnouche was convicted and received an eight year sentence for his role in planning an aborted millennium bombing of a Strasbourg
cathedral
.
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
and Algeria
Algeria
Algeria , officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria , also formally referred to as the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of Northwest Africa with Algiers as its capital.In terms of land area, it is the largest country in Africa and the Arab...
who confessed to having ties to Al Qaeda.
Akhnouche is believed to have been an Al Qaeda recruiter. Akhnouche's alleged Al Qaeda associates include:
| Zacarias Moussaoui Zacarias Moussaoui Zacarias Moussaoui is a French citizen who was convicted of conspiring to kill citizens of the US as part of the September 11 attacks... |
one of the 21st hijackers |
| Richard Reid | the "shoe bomber" |
| Ahmed Ressam Ahmed Ressam Ahmed Ressam is an Algerian al-Qaeda member who lived in Montreal, Canada.He was convicted of attempting to bomb the Los Angeles International Airport on New Year's Eve 1999, as part of the foiled 2000 millennium attack plots... |
the "millennium bomber" |
| Abu Doha Abu Doha Amar Makhlulif alias Abu Doha is an Algerian alleged to be member of the al-Qaeda and GSPC terrorist networks. He was arrested at London Heathrow Airport in February 2001 while attempting to travel to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on a forged passport. On 3 July 2008 the British bench released him from... |
aka "the Doctor" |
Akhnouche was convicted and received an eight year sentence for his role in planning an aborted millennium bombing of a Strasbourg
Strasbourg
Strasbourg is the capital and principal city of the Alsace region in eastern France and is the official seat of the European Parliament. Located close to the border with Germany, it is the capital of the Bas-Rhin département. The city and the region of Alsace are historically German-speaking,...
cathedral
Cathedral
A cathedral is a Christian church that contains the seat of a bishop...
.