Malika el aroud biography of george michael

Belgian-Moroccan jihadist (1959–2023)

Malika El Aroud (Arabic: مليكة العرود; 1959 – 6 April 2023)^[1] was a Belgian-Moroccan who was convicted of Islamic terrorist activities by a Belgian court in 2010.^[2] She had ties to Al-Qaeda and was known as one of Europe's most prominent internet jihadists.^[3]

El Aroud was the widow of Abdessatar Dahmane, one of the men who assassinated the anti-Taliban resistance leader Ahmad Shah Massoud in Afghanistan on 9 September 2001.

In 2003 she was one of 22 people tried in Belgium for complicity in Massoud's murder, but was acquitted due to lack of evidence. In June 2007 she and her new husband Moez Garsalloui were found guilty by a Swiss court of operating websites that supported Al-Qaeda.^[4]

In 2010 El Aroud was sentenced by a Belgian court to eight years in prison for terrorist activities.

Belgium then tried unsuccessfully to deport her to Morocco.

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