Fatiha Mohamed Taher Mejjati is a Moroccan jihadist.
11 Facts About Fatiha Mejjati
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Fatiha Mejjati is the widow of Karim Mejjati, co-founder of the Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group and member of Al-Qaeda.
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Karim Mejjati is suspected of planning the 2003 Casablanca bombings and the 2004 Madrid train bombings.
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Fatiha Mejjati is a member of ISIL and is believed to be living in Syria.
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Fatiha Mejjati was designated as a terrorist entity by the Moroccan Ministry of Justice in 2023, and a warrant has been issued for her arrest for alleged terrorist acts.
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Fatiha Mejjati Mohamed Taher Hassani was born in 1961 to a carpenter father and a housewife mother in Derb Sultan, Casablanca.
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Fatiha Mejjati received her Baccalaureat in Literature and Human Sciences in 1980 and received a degree in French private law from Hassan II University of Casablanca in 1985.
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Fatiha Mejjati joined the Moroccan Institute of Management as a management assistant in 1990.
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Fatiha Mejjati bought Karim, who barely knew Arabic, a French translation of the Quran.
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France 24 interviewed Fatiha Mejjati, and published a profile of her, after she published a warning to France that it should be concerned it would be attacked by jihadists.
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Fatiha Mejjati's surviving son, Ilyas Mejjat, went to work for ISIL's media arm.