Willie Brigitte  From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to:
navigation, search  Willie Virgile Brigitte (born 10 October
1968) is a French convert to Islam who associated with al-Qaeda
and was possibly involved in a plot to conduct a terrorist
operation in Australia.[1]  He is currently serving a nine year
sentence in prison for his admitted involvement with a terrorist
organization.[2]   Brigitte was born on the Caribbean island of
Guadeloupe, an overseas territory of France. He moved to Paris
for his final year of schooling, but chose to join the navy
instead of sitting for the baccalaureate. He served for three
years, though deserted the military twice.[3]  After returning
to civilian life in 1993, he worked in a variety of jobs, and
had stints as a butcher, social worker, printer, drug
rehabilitation facilitator, teacher and warehouse worker. He
married a Syrian Muslim woman, with whom he had one child. At
the time, neither of them were particularly religious. They
divorced in 1996.[3]  He read widely