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  Khaled Kelkal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
After his release, Kelkal regularly attended the Bilal Mosque in Vaulx-en-Velin; the mosque was headed by integrist imam Mohamed Minta, a sympathiser of the Foi et Pratique ("Faith and practice") fundamentalist organisation.
Kelkal's death was shown on television, and a polemic arose about the exact reasons for the shooting.
Kelkal was carrying an addressbook which allowed the police to arrest part of the terrorist network.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Khaled_Kelkal   (646 words)

  
 Khaled Kelkal -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
There, he was probably recruited by one of the radical branch of the (A terrorist organization of Islamic extremists whose violant activities began in 1992; aims to overthrow the secular Algerian regime and replace it with an Islamic state) GIA, headed by Djamel Zitouni, whose aim was to "punish France".
On the 29th of September 1995, after several days of chasing in the forest of Malval, in hills near (A city in east-central France on the Rhone River; a principal producer of silk and rayon) Lyon, Khaled Kelkal was found in a place called "La Maison Blanche".
A few days afterward, Boualem Bensaïd, Kelkal's superior, was arrested in Paris, as he was setting details for a bombing in a market of (An industrial city in northern France near the Belgian border; was the medieval capital of Flanders) Lille.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/K/Kh/Khaled_Kelkal.htm   (741 words)

  
 Khaled - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Khaled [خالد] (also seen as "Khalid" in English) is a male, Arabic name which literally translates to 'eternal' or 'immortal'.
Khaled ibn Walid, first recorded person to be given the name "Khaled".
Khaled Mardam-Bey, creator of the IRC client, mIRC.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Khaled   (107 words)

  
 CNN - World briefs - Sept. 29, 1995   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
It remained for investigators to try to determine whether Kelkal was the mastermind behind the wave of violence, or merely the pawn of a guerrilla organization.
Kelkal, 24, whose fingerprints were found on a bomb placed on a high-speed rail line last month, was shot dead in a gun battle with police west of the central city of Lyon.
Kelkal became France's most wanted man after he was linked to a bomb which failed to explode beside a high-speed railway line north of Lyon.
edition.cnn.com /WORLD/Newsbriefs/9509/9-29   (525 words)

  
 Iran's Shadow Looms over Bombings in France
Khaled Kelkal, 24, is typical of the young recruits used in many Iran-sponsored terrorist attacks.
Born in Algeria and raised from early childhood in a poverty-stricken suburb of Lyon, Kelkal had turned to petty crime long before his fingerprints were found on the unexploded bomb discovered on the TGV rail line near Lyon.
Beset by unemployment, youths like Kelkal are easy prey for pro-Iranian recruiters who frequent housing projects blighted by decay, crime and narcotics addiction.
www.geocities.com /Paris/Rue/4637/terr9a.html   (873 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Khaled Kelkal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Khaled Kelkal (April 28, 1971 - September 29, 1995) was an Algerian terrorist affiliated with the GIA.
A few months afterward, he was arrested for thefts using cars to ram into private property ; he was sentenced to 4 years of prison.
The Armed Islamic Group (GIA, from French Groupe Islamique Armé; Arabic al-Jamaah al-Islamiyah al-Musallah) is a militant Islamist group with the declared aim of overthrowing the Algerian government and replacing it with an Islamic state.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Khaled-Kelkal   (1145 words)

  
 Bomb injures 13 at Paris subway station   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The caller also made reference to Khaled Kelkal, the Algerian-born bombing suspect killed by police in a gunbattle near Lyon a week ago and buried in a Lyon suburb by family and friends just hours before the explosion.
The blast occurred across from the subway station Maison Blanche, the same name as the bus stop where Kelkal was shot -- indicating that even massive security efforts are unable to prevent someone from picking a bomb site.
Kelkal's death has angered many who contend police gunned him down only because he was Muslim.
www.chron.com /content/chronicle/world/95/10/07/bomb.html   (475 words)

  
 CNN - Suspected bomber killed - Sept. 30, 1995   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In a minute-long shoot-out near Lyon on Friday, French paratroopers killed Khaled Kelkal, a suspected Islamic terrorist who may have been involved in a series of bombings in France since July.
Kelkal's fingerprints, police said, were found on an unexploded bomb placed on a high-speed rail line north of Lyon.
Authorities suspect that Kelkal and his colleagues are associated with Moslem fundamentalists battling Algeria's military-led government Anti-government violence there has claimed an estimated 40,000 people in Algeria since 1992, when authorities pulled the plug on elections that fundamentalists were expected to win.
edition.cnn.com /WORLD/9509/france_shootout   (357 words)

  
 French police find bomb and nab man described as key terror suspect   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The previous key suspect, Khaled Kelkal, was killed in a gun battle with police in a suburb of Lyon, in eastern France.
Kelkal's fingerprints were found on a bomb that failed to explode along high-speed train tracks near Lyon and police believe Bensaid was in contact with Kelkal's group, among others.
Investigators have suspected the bombers are Islamic sympathizers recruited in the troubled French suburbs.
www.chron.com /content/chronicle/world/95/11/03/france.html   (453 words)

  
 The Militant - 11/13/95 -- Paris Unleashes Army On Immigrants
Kelkal was born in Algeria, grew up in the Lyon suburb of Vaulx-en-Velin, and had recently spent two years in prison for petty theft.
Kelkal was finally located hiding in the hills west of Lyon.
When the police caught up with Kelkal, he was shot in the leg and in one hand.
www.themilitant.com /1995/5942/5942_5.html   (1588 words)

  
 Khaled Kelkal - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Fingerprints of Khaled Kelkal where found on the bomb, and a frantic search immediately started, with 170 000 photographs displayed in all public places in France.
This page was last modified 21:11, 22 May 2005.
Khaled Kelkal, Life of Khaled Kelkal, Early life, Involvement with Islamism, Criminal record, Terrorist actions, Death and polemics, Aftermath, See Also and External Links.
www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Khaled_Kelkal   (673 words)

  
 CNN - Bomb blast wounds seven in Paris - Oct. 6, 1995   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The blast occurred in Paris just hours after the burial near Lyon of Algerian Khaled Kelkal, 24, suspected of involvement in a wave of bomb attacks in France.
Kelkal died a week ago in a shoot-out with French paratroopers.
Eulogists, including the grand mufti of the Lyon mosque and Kelkal's father, urged peace and calm.
www-cgi.cnn.com /WORLD/9510/paris_bomb   (205 words)

  
 FrontPage magazine.com :: Holy War in Europe by Reuel Marc Gerecht
On August 26, 1995, a militant Islamic group led by a twenty-four-year-old French Muslim named Khaled Kelkal attempted to blow one of France's high-speed trains off its rails.
Kelkal moved to France from Algeria when he was one month old; not known for being religious in his troubled youth, he became an Islamic militant in a French jail, as have hundreds of highly westernized French Muslims.
They know that more Khaled Kelkals are being born in the banlieues.
www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=12961   (1608 words)

  
 France shows frustation in hunt for terrorists   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Authorities thought they had their man when military paratroopers fatally shot the No. 1 suspect, 24-year-old Algerian Khaled Kelkal, during a gun battle in a Lyon suburb.
Kelkal's fingerprints were found Aug. 26 on a bomb that failed to explode along high-speed train tracks in Lyon.
The most recent, on Oct. 17, exploded in a regional subway car as it passed the station at the famous Orsay Museum, blowing the feet and legs off some of its 24 victims.
www.chron.com /content/chronicle/world/95/11/02/france.html   (412 words)

  
 CNN - French rail bombing - Oct. 8, 1995   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Friday's blast occurred just hours after the burial of Algerian Khaled Kelkal, 24, suspected of involvement in the wave of bombings in Paris and Lyon.
He had been the object of a massive manhunt after investigators said they found his fingerprints on an unexploded bomb found along a high-speed train track outside Lyon.
Maison Blanche, the name of the subway station where the bomb exploded, is also the name of the bus stop where Kelkal was killed.
www.cnn.com /WORLD/9510/paris_bomb/10-08   (367 words)

  
 Watch - The Occupied Territories of Arab Imagination
The interview with Khaled Kelkal published in Le Monde by a German sociologist was indicative of this process and lamentable state of affairs.
By staking out a positive "ghetto" identity, for which Khaled Kelkal could be taken as a role model, the "Arab-fl-ghetto-youth" made his violence into an ends and not a means.
Khaled Kelkal's extraordinary adventure is another proof of this break with society at large.
watch.windsofchange.net /themes_61.htm   (9600 words)

  
 Battle of Algiers on Paris Métro
Yet it wasn't until July 25 that the war crossed the Mediterranean, literally with a bang, when a bomb exploded in the heart of Paris--at a subway station in the Latin Quarter--killing seven and wounding nearly ninety.
Khaled Kelkal and his companions were brought up in a similar suburb outside Lyons.
He is symptomatic in his almost cliché-like emphasis on the wall separating the suburb from the town, on the injustice called justice, on violence as the only accepted language, on the quest for acceptance and recognition, which in his case only the family and Islam provided.
www.thenation.com /doc/19951106/singer   (2511 words)

  
 EURSOC: Targeting Schools: Some History
You have to go back to the mid 1990s when France was subjected to an Algerian inspired terror campaign which left seven dead and 130 injured.
The suspected Paris train bomber, 24-year old Khaled Kelkal, was shot dead by French security forces in September 1995.
Kelkal was also suspected of planting a bomb at a Jewish school in the city of Lyon.
www.eursoc.com /news/fullstory.php/aid/609   (362 words)

  
 Aus den Banlieues in ein anderes Leben bomben? / unrast-Verlag
Khaled Kelkal wurde 1971 in Mostaganem, an der westalgerischen Mittelmeerküste, als viertes von insgesamt zehn Kindern geboren.
Khaled Kelkal schien anfänglich dafür prädestiniert, aus der Banlieue heraus- und zu einem besseren Leben zu kommen.
Khaled Kelkal zum Beispiel besaß in seinem Leben phasenweise reale Aufstiegschancen, die auf der Oberschule dann aber zunichte wurden aus einem Knäuel von äußeren (Diskriminierung, Ausgrenzungsgefühl) und inneren (Motivationsverlust, Kontakt mit Freunden auf der "schiefen Laufbahn") Ursachen heraus.
www.unrast-verlag.de /unrast,3,0,229.html   (3094 words)

  
 Suspected Militants Target of Paris Raids   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Roland Jacquard, head of the International Observatory of Terrorism, said Tuesday's raids seemed partly aimed at tracking down people with links to Ali Touchent, one of the main Algerian suspects in last year's bombings, who is still free.
Last year the investigators' main break came when one of the guerrillas, Khaled Kelkal, was identified from a fingerprint on a bomb that failed to explode by a railway track near the central city of Lyon.
Kelkal was shot dead in a gun battle with police.
dev.themoscowtimes.com /stories/1996/12/11/021.html   (451 words)

  
 Telegraph | News | France: Tension in 'city that kills'
No one has forgotten Khaled Kelkal, a young man from the working-class Lyons suburb of Vaulx-en-Velin, recruited by Algerian GIA terrorists for their 1995 bombing campaign on mainland France.
Learning that a local boy had tried to blow up the high-speed rail link between Paris and Lyons was almost as great a shock to the nation as the GIA's toll of 10 deaths and several hundred injured in other attacks.
Now, France is asking itself whether more young men like Kelkal are waiting to emerge from suburbs like Trappes.
www.portal.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/09/25/world425.xml   (635 words)

  
 Al-Qaida Brand Name Ready for Franchise - Empire? - Global Policy Forum
Franchising the brand name is facilitated by a radical undercurrent recruiting and operating along similar lines to the original organisation, but without organic links to it.
France suffered attacks by the Kelkal network (12) and the Roubaix gang (13) in 1995 and 1996.
(12) Network led by Khaled Kelkal, killed by French police and suspected of having masterminded attacks, including the bombing of the Saint Michel metro station in July 1995.
www.globalpolicy.org /empire/terrorwar/analysis/2004/0901terrorbiz.htm   (3718 words)

  
 CNN World News: French police continue search for bombers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
PARIS, France (CNN) -- The French Interior Ministry released a photograph Saturday of a man they say is a suspect in one of six bombings over the last six weeks.
French police are looking for Khaled Kelkal in connection with an unexploded bomb planted on a high-speed railway near Lyon last month.
Police interrogated at least two dozen suspected Islamic extremists near Lyon on Friday, and have detained two; it was not immediately clear if the suspect Kelkal was one of those or if he is still at large.
www.cnn.com /WORLD/9508/france/paris_bombs   (226 words)

  
 FRANCE: SET FOR A TERRORIST SIEGE
Interior Minister Jean-Louis Debre suggested that Kelkal's death could mean an end to the bombings.
But on Oct. 6, the day of Kelkal's funeral, a bomb outside a Paris subway station injured 13.
Terrorist expert Jacquard warns that the simplicity of the bombs and the motivation of their builders suggest a long campaign that will be difficult to stop.
www.time.com /time/international/1995/951030/france.html   (828 words)

  
 Killing Raises Questions in France
PARIS -- The killing of France's most wanted bombing suspect, Khaled Kelkal, sparked controversy Monday over whether gendarmes could have captured him alive and whether television should have shown his body live on prime-time news.
Kelkal was suspected of involvement in the murder of exiled Algerian fundamentalist leader Sheikh Abdelbaki Sahraoui in Paris last July and in a wave of bombings in both the capital and the Lyon region thereafter.
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www.moscowtimes.ru /stories/1995/10/03/027.html   (168 words)

  
 EURSOC: Tackling Terror
Ten years ago today, the prime suspect Khaled Kelkal was killed in a shootout with police.
Safé Bourrada, one of the men arrested on Tuesday, is alleged to have recruited Kelkal to terrorism.
A Google France News search of Kelkal's name this morning did not throw up dozens of pages on mourning, community unrest or legal challenges to mark the anniversary of his death - indeed, Kelkal's name only appears as a footnote to identify Bourrada's alleged background.
www.eursoc.com /news/fullstory.php/aid/879/Tackling_Terror.html   (1022 words)

  
 Guardian | Haven't the French been through this once before?
Suddenly Paris was a place where thousands of Algerians were checked daily for their identity papers and police raided cafes and clubs looking for Islamic fundamentalists.
The most wanted man, Khaled Kelkal, 24, suspected of placing a bomb on the Lyon to Paris railway line, was constantly in the headlines.
When Kelkal was eventually tracked down and shot 11 times by police, the TV crews were there to register the end of public enemy number one.
www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4402877-110633,00.html   (1534 words)

  
 Terror Organisations İn The Other Countries - FORSNET   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Just after a week, Abdulbaki SAHRAOUI, one of the founders of the Islamic Welfare Party (F.I.S.) was killed on July 11, 1995 in a mosque around Paris rue Myrha with the claim of being a traitor; terrorist activities have begun in France and in these activities 7 people died, and nearly 180 people were injured.
The bomb placed in a railway between Paris and Lyon was determined on August 26, 1995 and then neutralized, and a Morocco originated person named Khaled KELKAL, who was found by following the fingerprint on the bomb was captured as dead as a result of the fight with the police.
The military government have established special teams and put special laws into effect in order to struggle against terrorism and implemented strict oppression on the radical Muslims.
www.teror.gen.tr /english/other/middleeast/fis.html   (350 words)

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