Brussels (EFE).- Malika El Aroud, known as “the black widow of the jihad”, died this Friday in Belgium at the age of 64, according to various media reports in the country.
An Al Qaeda activist, she was once the wife of one of the assassins of anti-Taliban resistance leader Ahmad Shah Massoud, in an attack committed just two days before the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York.
She became one of the most wanted people by Western anti-terrorism services for her internet posts targeting jihadists, and Switzerland condemned her for glorifying terrorism through her blog.
They also sentenced El Aroud, of Moroccan origin, in Belgium in 2010 along with six other terrorists for having planned attacks in the country, including the European Council, which did not take place.
As a result of that conviction, the authorities stripped the Belgian nationality of the “black widow of jihad” in 2017 for “seriously failing in her duties as a citizen”.
Since then, she only had Moroccan nationality and in 2019 Belgium decided to extradite her to Morocco, but the handover never took place because Rabat refused to provide the necessary documents.