Karim el-Mejjati

Abdulkarim al-Touhami Driss el-Mejjati Arabic: عبد الكريم المجاطي‎‎
Born	October 30, 1967 Morocco
Died	April 2005 Ar Rass, Saudi Arabia
Cause of death	Ar Rass raids by Saudi authorities
Other names	Bashir Al-Maghribi Abu Ilyas/Elias Abu Ins
Spouse(s)	Fatiha Mohamed Taher Housni el-Mejjati
Children	Ilyass, Adam

A French citizen born in Morocco,Karim Thami el-Mejjati (October 30, 1967 – April 2005) was a Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group militant claimed to have aided the Riyadh compound bombings, the 2003 Casablanca bombings, the 2004 Madrid train bombings and the 2005 London bombings.

He was killed, along with his 11-year-old son, by Saudi authorities in a series of raids in April 2005. His wife maintains that he was not connected to all the attacks, but insinuates that he had arranged attacks against Saudi Arabia, provoking their anger.

A medical student, el-Mejjati was born to a wealthy Moroccan father who worked in commerce and French mother who worked in cosmetics. They enrolled him in a French-speaking school from which he graduated in 1986. He also spoke English and sub-par Arabic. He kept a poster of Clint Eastwood taped to his bedroom wall, and dreamed of traveling to the United States. A secular Muslim, he reportedly ate pork and drank alcohol in violation of Islamic law, and enjoyed partying at Les Sablettes beach resort, as well as visiting Ceuta and Melilla.

On September 25, 1991, he married a Tunisian-American named Fatiha, who was seven years older than he was and had been dismissed from her job at the Casablanca medical school where he was studying because she started wearing the niqab face-covering. A 1985 law graduate, she later remarked that the student unrest over the management's attempts to fire her were likely what brought both her and el-Mejjati back to being observant Muslims. He dropped out of medical school, and they traveled to an Islamic conference in Paris for a month. They had two sons, named Ilyass and Adam.

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