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May 4, 2006
Morocco: Islamist Group Nabbed Before Striking Tangiers
A report from yesterday's AKI reveals that in Rabat, Morocco, an Islamist terror cell has been broken up. The Arabic daily paper, al-Hayat reported that the cell was broken up after a suspected militant, Muhammad Bariq, was arrested. He was apprehended in connection with the multiple suicide bombings which took place in Casablanca, the country's economic hub, on May 16, 2003. These killed 45 people and injured dozens more.
The Casablanca attacks were carried out by the Groupe Islamique Combattant Marocain (GICM), an organisation with links to Al Qaeda, and which has been linked with the bombings in Madrid on March 11, 2004.
When Bariq was arrested, he was found to possess CDs, documents and cellphones, which enabled police to uncover details of a plot to bomb the cities of Tangiers and Araish in Morocco. Additional information was also gleaned from police investigations into Salafist training camps in the region of Tangiers. Salafism is an extreme and uncompromising version of Islam, which encourages war against "unbelievers".
Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at May 4, 2006 8:03 AM
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