US embassy cable - 04MADRID4523

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Identifier:	04MADRID4523
Wikileaks:	View 04MADRID4523 at Wikileaks.org
Origin:	Embassy Madrid
Created:	2004-11-30 08:39:00
Classification:	UNCLASSIFIED
Tags:	CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL
Redacted:	This cable was not redacted by Wikileaks.

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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