Rabei Osman Syed Ahmed () is an

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citizen who was arrested in July 2004 by

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on terrorism charges. He was accused of multiple counts of murder, attempted murder, stealing a vehicle, belonging to a terrorist organisation (

Egyptian Islamic Jihad The Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ; ), formerly called simply Islamic Jihad () and the Liberation Army for Holy Sites, originally referred to as al-Jihad, and then the Jihad Group, or the Jihad Organization, was an Egyptian Islamist group active ...

) and four counts of carrying out terrorist acts of the

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. Rabei Osman was sentenced in

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on 11 June 2006 to 10 years in prison for plotting terror attack in

and afterwards was extradited to

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in 2007. In February 2007 Rabei Osman's trial began in

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, along with other 28 defendants, for having a key role in the

. In October 2007 Rabei Osman was acquitted in Madrid from all charges with other 5 suspects.

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