Identifier
Created
Classification
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04MADRID4523
2004-11-30 08:39:00
UNCLASSIFIED
Embassy Madrid
Cable title:  

VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION

Tags:  CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL 
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UNCLAS MADRID 004523 

SIPDIS

VISAS VIPER

DEPT FOR CA/VO/L/C AND INR/IC/TIPOFF

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL
(AKOUDAD, ABDELADIM ET AL)
SUBJECT: VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION


UNCLAS MADRID 004523

SIPDIS

VISAS VIPER

DEPT FOR CA/VO/L/C AND INR/IC/TIPOFF

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL
(AKOUDAD, ABDELADIM ET AL)
SUBJECT: VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION



1. POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING
NAMES AND INFORMATION IN CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER
PROCEDURES:


2. DAILY SPANISH PRESS OF NOV. 17, 2004, REPORTED
THAT SPANISH NATIONAL COURT JUDGE BALTASAR GARZON,
INDICTED ISLAMIC EXTREMIST ABDELADIM AKOUDAD, ALIAS
"NADUFEL" AS THE SUSPECTED COORDINATOR OF THE ISLAMIST
TERRORIST CELL REPONSIBLE FOR THE ASSASINATION ON NOV.
2, 2004 OF DEUTCH MOVIE DIRECTOR THEO VAN GOGH IN THE
NETHERLANDS. AKOUDAD WAS CLOSELY LINKED TO THE
PERPETRATORS SAMIR AZZOUZ, 18 YEARS OLD, FROM MOROCCO
AND MOHAMED BOUYERI, (DPOB UNKNOWN). ACCORDING TO
POLICE INVESTIGATIONS, AKOUAD WAS ALSO CLOSELY RELATED
TO SALAH EDDINE BENIA, ALIAS "MURAD", AN ALLEGED HIGH-
RANKING AL-QAEDA MEMBER, ALSO INVOLVED IN THE
CASABLANCA TERRORIST ATTACKS, WHO WAS ARRESTED IN
AMSTERDAM AIRPORT COMING FROM MALAYSIA AND HOLDING A
FALSE SPANISH PASSPORT. ABDELADIM AKOUAD WAS ARRESTED
IN SPAIN ON OCT. 14,2003, AS THE RESULT OF A MOROCCAN
HIGH COURT INTERNATIONAL WARRANT OF ARREST FOR HIS
ALLEGED ASSOCIATION WITH THE RADICAL ISLAMIST GROUP "AL
HARAKA SALFIA JIHADIA", RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CASABLANCA
TERRORISTS EVENTS.


3. NAME: AKOUAD, ABDELADIM

- ALIAS: "NADUFEL"
- GENDER: MALE
- DPOB: JUNE 8, 1968, NADOR, MOROCCO
- CLASS: POSITIVE

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