""BP, which ran the plant in a consortium with the Norwegian energy
company Statoil and the Algerian state-owned Sonatrach, said last night it was
aware of the allegations that a transportation contract had been handed to a
company run by the Ghediri family. The owner's brother, Mohamed Ghediri - better
known as Abdelhamid Abou Zeid - is the leader of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
(AQIM), which is one of the terrorist organisations waging war with the French
for control of northern Mali.""
