Time magazine called Karim Bourti: "...a self-described Paris-based recruiter for international jihad.
"[2] Time says he is the "main Paris operative for the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat.
French journalist Mohamed Sifaoui used his renewal of a childhood acquaintanceship with Bourti as his path to a three month undercover investigation into militant jihadism in France, entitled, "Mes Freres Assassins".
[1][3] According to Sifaoui, Karim Bourti, and confederates, had planned to attack the 1998 World Football Cup.
[7] Karim Bourti has claimed he recruited former Guantanamo captive Brahim Yadel and Hervé Djamel Loiseau, who was found frozen to death in the Afghan battleground of Tora Bora.