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16 Facts About Karim el-Mejjati

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Karim Thami el-Mejjati was a Moroccan-French convicted terrorist who has been claimed to have aided the Riyadh compound bombings, the 2003 Casablanca bombings, the 2004 Madrid train bombings and the 2005 London bombings as member of the Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group.

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Karim el-Mejjati was killed, along with his 11-year-old son, by Saudi authorities in a series of raids in April 2005.

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Karim el-Mejjati's wife maintains that he was not connected to all the attacks but insinuates that he had arranged attacks against Saudi Arabia, provoking their anger.

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Karim el-Mejjati kept a poster of Clint Eastwood taped to his bedroom wall, and dreamed of traveling to the United States.

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Karim el-Mejjati dropped out of medical school, and they traveled to an Islamic conference in Paris for a month.

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Karim el-Mejjati maintained a relationship with Yusuf Fikri, leader of the Takfir wal-Hijra.

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Karim el-Mejjati later listed the address of a New York City bookseller, Abdulrahman Farhane, as his own - later entered as evidence against Farhane following accusations he financially supported terrorism.

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Karim el-Mejjati traveled to Kandahar, ostensibly to seek out Osama bin Laden even though he had no intentions of joining al-Qaeda, but was disappointed to discover the militant leader had already left the city.

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Karim el-Mejjati later managed to see both bin Laden and Mullah Omar.

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Karim el-Mejjati asked his wife to help him find a wife for al-Juhani, who was not supposed to be involved in any more fighting.

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When questioned, his wife confirmed to police that Karim el-Mejjati was indeed living in Riyadh, but refused to write an open letter in the newspapers calling for her husband to surrender himself to authorities stating that he hadn't done anything wrong.

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Saudi security forces had not known Karim el-Mejjati would be present when they surrounded their first target, a house with approximately eight occupants.

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Saudi authorities alleged that Karim el-Mejjati had killed a foreigner living in the Kingdom, and attacked a police patrol in Al-Ghat "with the support of his son", despite being only 11 years old.

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Karim el-Mejjati then wrote to the Moroccan Ministry of the Interior, and its Saudi counterpart, to ask them to positively confirm the identity of her husband and son through DNA testing, with which they complied.

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Karim el-Mejjati sought permission to travel to Saudi Arabia to claim the body of her husband and son for proper burial, and proposed traveling with his second wife, stating that she could not find closure until she had seen the bodies herself.

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Karim el-Mejjati later joined the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in Syria and headed the Al-Khansaa Brigade.