[Guardian] The wife of one of France’s most notorious jihadists, Peter Cherif,| ...also known as one of the many Abu Hamzas in our archives, Petey is a senior member of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, a friend of the 2015 Charlie Hebdo and Hyper Cacher massacre jihadis, fought with Al Qaeda in Iraq in 2004, and is in the habit of wandering off when the authorities think they’ve finally got him hobbled... |
Soulef A, who was arrested along with Cherif in Djibouti in mid-December, has been charged with criminal association with terrorists and financing a terrorist enterprise and held pending a hearing on 7 January.
Cherif, 36, who was returned to France in late December and detained, is considered a potential source of valuable information by western intelligence agencies. French authorities have been seeking him since he disappeared in 2011 on the final day of his trial in Paris for fighting in Iraq alongside Al-Qaida in 2004.