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A French newspaper reported Monday that Jordanian terror suspect Abu Musab al-Zarqawi personally asked Osama bin Laden to help finance a Moroccan group suspected in the Madrid bombings and the attacks last May in Casablanca, Morocco that killed 45 people including 12 terrorists. Bin Laden was at first reluctant but eventually gave al-Zarqawi $70,000, Le Figaro said, quoting a senior Moroccan official. This was the genesis of the Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group, which may have had a supervisory role over the attacks in Casablanca and Madrid, Le Figaro said.
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