Taamallah Brahim Ben Rehaiem

Taamallah Brahim Ben Rehaiem, alias Abu Ismail or Ibrahim, was born in Tunisia on November 1, 1966. Together with others, he was in contact with Dah Dah (alias of Essaadi Moussa) to cooperate in the forgery of documents and more broadly support the operations surrounding a jihadist training camp in Afghanistan.
Numerous intercepted phone calls in the early months of 1998 reveal how Taamallah was trying to procure forged documents through the aid of Dah Dah. This was further compounded by a payment of five hundred thousand liras made by Taamallah to Dah Dah on April 3rd, 1998.
Interestingly, in January, while speaking with Dah Dah he was informed of a 6 months program that they need to talk about (explicitly stating they could not talk about it on the phone), Dah Dah stated that he had already spoken with “the other brothers”. As it would emerge from environmental recordings of other individuals involved in this investigation, that program might have been that of a terrorist attack, possibly linked to the football World Cup that was going to take place in France that year.
Testifying again to the criminal nature of the network of which Taamallah was part, he referred to individuals who had been arrested in this same investigation as close friends.
In one of the last intercepted calls with Dah Dah, Taamallah informed him that Abdullah from Tunis had arrived, and proposed to organise a meeting.
The Court of Bologna requested Taamalla’s arrest in March of 2000, based also on his participation in a subversive radical Islamist network.