Fateh Kamel

Fateh Kamel
Born	El Harrach, Algeria
Penalty	Eight years imprisonment
Status	Released early for good behaviour

An Algerian-Canadian, Fateh Kamel was arrested in 1999 on charges of supporting a terrorist plot against attacks against French targets in Paris, and was sentenced to eight years' imprisonment.

He was released early for good behaviour, and returned to Canada.

Kamel is believed to have fought the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan, and moved to Canada in 1987 or 1988.

He married a schoolteacher in Quebec, and was granted Canadian citizenship in 1993, and owned the Artisanat Nord-Sud Craft Store in Montreal.

In the Bosnian War, he was injured in the foot while fighting in Bosnia.Evan Kohlmann has suggested that he served as third-in-command of a Zenica mujahideen battalion during 1995 under Abdelkader Mokhtari.

Described as possessing a "slick, polished exterior" and "especially handsome", he traveled between Milan, Montreal, Paris, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Zagreb, Bosnia, Copenhagen, Australia, Slovenia, Freibourg, Morocco, Acone, Istanbul, Belgium and Amsterdam over a period of three years from 1994-97.

In 1996, he stated to friends that he would "prefer to die than go to jail", speaking of how he almost lost his wife and newborn son. When authorities pursued French militant Christophe Caze, it was discovered that his address book contained the contact information of Kamel.

Returning to Canada, he is alleged to have led a group of radical Montreal Islamists, including Ahmed Ressam. In 1991 he is believed to have attended an Afghan training camp, and returned to Montreal where he stole money and identity documents to support his group's plans to bomb Parisian metro stations, and a series of attacks in the city of Roubaix.

He was arrested in Jordan in March 1999, and extradited to France, where he was convicted and sentenced to eight years' imprisonment for providing false passports in support of terrorism.

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