[AlAhram] Three Frenchies have been tossed in the clinkPlease don't kill me!
in the Moroccan city of Sale close to the capital Rabat on suspicion of financing terrorism and having connections with holy warrior groups, police said on Tuesday.
Investigations showed that the suspects had connections with Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
(IS) fighters in the Middle East, a statement carried by state news agency MAP said.
The suspects, who were arrested on Monday, were not identified but the police statement said one of them is of Algerian origin.
Compared with other countries in North Africa, Morocco has been largely insulated from holy warrior attacks.
The four main suspects arrested in connection with the killing in December of two Scandinavian women near the tourist hub of Marrakech had pledged allegiance to IS in a video.
In April 2011, 17 people were killed in the bombing of a restaurant in Marrakech.
In 2017 and 2018, Morocco said it dismantled 20 holy warrior cells planning attacks in the country.