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| Morocco vows "no respite" on terror after blast | |
| 2007-03-13 | |
| Morocco pledged to wage war against terrorism "without respite" on Monday after a suspected suicide bomber was blown up in a Casablanca Internet cafe during a tussle with the owner of the premises. Police were questioning a man who was found to be carrying explosives as he tried to flee the scene in Sidi Moumen, a slum district of the north African kingdom's commercial capital. "This is an incentive to pursue the war on terrorism without respite," Communication Minister Nabil Benabdallah told Reuters, adding the incident was "in the framework of horrendous terrorist acts in Morocco and other Maghreb countries". Governments in North Africa fear violence may spill over from Algeria after the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat renamed itself Al Qaeda Organisation in the Islamic Maghreb with the aim of fusing similar Islamist groups together. Security officials said on Sunday night a man with explosives hidden under his clothes had a dispute with the cafe proprietor and the blast occurred as the two men came to blows. The man armed with explosives was killed and four people were wounded in the blast. The official MAP news agency named the dead man as Abdelfattah Raydi, an unemployed 23-year-old who was sentenced to five years imprisonment in 2003 under anti-terrorism legislation. He was granted a royal pardon in 2005, the agency said without elaborating. That worked well. Another man at the scene who tried to run away was arrested and also found to have explosives, security sources said. The man, one of the four wounded, was under interrogation.
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| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 ...named the dead man as Abdelfattah Raydi, an unemployed 23-year-old who was sentenced to five years imprisonment in 2003 under anti-terrorism legislation. He was granted a royal pardon in 2005... Don't tell me. He "repented", right? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2007-03-13 10:32 |