19th Arrondissement Network
- 19th Arrondissement Network
The 19th Arrondissement Network was a group of militant French Muslims who were tried and convicted of recruiting approximately a dozen Frenchmen to fight for insurgent forces in the Iraq War. The group is referred to by this name since a large portion of its members were from the 19th Arrondissement, a poor Paris neighborhood with a large North African population.
The leader of the group, Farid Benyettou, was arrested in January 2005, ending the group's operations. Benyettou was a self-taught preacher of the Salafist branch.
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*Ingrid Rousseau, Daniel Woolls [http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-03-30-829145447_x.htm French extremists dream of jihad in Iraq] USA Today. 30 Mar 2008.
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