The documents show that Amedy Coulibaly and Cherif Kouachi were close associates and go into explicit detail on how the two Paris attackers plotted to stage a prison break to free a fellow terrorist in 2010.
Coulibaly, who is accused of killing a French police officer and killing four more people at a kosher grocery store, was described as a logistics expert in charge of accumulating weapons and arms for the prison break plot.
Records show when he was arrested in 2010, police found “a huge cache of high-caliber arms,” including 240 cartridges for machine guns for “the specific goal of seriously hurting people through intimidation or terror acts.”
Police also found computers with security and encryption and recipes for poison purportedly capable of killing a million people.
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Beghal’s mentor was Finsbury Park mosque cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri, convicted just last week on terrorism charges and sentenced to life by a federal judge in New York.
Abu Hamza is believed to have radicalized and influenced convicted terrorists shoe-bomber Richard Reid and 9/11’s Zacarias Moussaoui.
The source says Beghal later took the name Abu Hamza out of respect for his mentor.
CNN’s Tim Lister contributed to this report.
