Malika El Aroud

Malika El Aroud , also known as Oum Obeyda (* 1959/1960 in Tangier , Morocco ), lives in Brussels , Belgium , is the widow of Dahmane Abd al-Sattar, one of the assassins of the anti- Taliban leader Ahmad Shah Massoud . El Aroud is one of the most prominent Internet Islamists.

In Brussels, she attended courses at the Center Islamique Belge , which was a meeting place for Islamic fundamentalists. There she began to radicalize. In 1999 she married the al-Qaeda sympathizer Abdessatar Dahmane . In 2001 the couple went to an Al Qaeda camp in Afghanistan . In September Dahmane committed the suicide attack against Ahmed Shah Massoud. Malika El-Aroud wrote a book about her husband's deed.

She promoted al-Qaeda on various websites and under various names (including Oum Obeyda ), tried to recruit suicide bombers, showed pictures of torture, executions, published bomb- making plans and instructions for attacks.

In 2003 she moved to the Swiss community of Düdingen . In February 2005, she and her Tunisian husband Moez Garsalloui were arrested during an anti-terrorist raid. She has been accused of running a jihadist website promoting crime and violence. In June 2007 she was sentenced to six months probation by the Federal Criminal Court in Bellinzona for supporting a criminal organization and public calls for violence, her husband to six months unconditional and 18 months conditional prison sentence.

She has lived in Belgium again since 2007, where she was arrested by the Belgian police on December 11, 2009. She is accused of having, together with her husband Moez Garsallaoui, recruited men for suicide attacks and planned attacks in Europe.

In February 2009, CNN published an interview with El Aroud.

credentials

• Swissinfo article from May 28, 2008 Islamist website owners found guilty
• New York Times article of December 12, 2008 Terror Arrests Ahead of EU Summit
• Blick article from February 16, 2009 [1]

Web links

• Belgian woman wages was for Al Qaeda on the Web International Herald Tribune May 28, 2008