The owner's brother, Mohamed Ghediri - better known as Abdelhamid Abou Zeid - is the leader of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb

""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.""