Morocco: Terrorist Threat Looms, Intelligence Agencies Say

By Larry Habegger | Permalink | No Comments | May 16th, 2006 | Trackback

Citing “well-informed sources,” European intelligence services warned Morocco that terrorists are planning bomb attacks on business, political and tourist targets. Some of the information reportedly came from German authorities who interrogated North African detainees in Frankfurt. A Moroccan extremist group is suspected of being behind simultaneous bombings in Casablanca in 2003 and the Madrid railway bombings of 2004. Authorities have arrested more than 3,000 suspected extremists since the 2003 bombings, but terrorist groups remain active and capable of attacks.

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