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| Al-Qaeda denies role in Morocco cafe blast | ||
| 2011-05-08 | ||
| [Al Jazeera] Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) has denied it was involved in a kaboom on a cafe in the city of Marrakesh on April 28 that left 17 people dead. "Nope. Nope. Wudn't us." AQIM said on Saturday that it was not behind the killings but urged Moroccan Mohammedans "to liberate their oppressed, placed in durance vile brothers and to topple the criminal regime," in an alleged reference to King Mohammed and his government. "We deny involvement in the bombing and assure that we have nothing to do with it, neither up close nor from afar," said a statement carried by the Nouakchott Information Agency in Mauritania.
Another death A Swiss woman died of her injuries on Friday, Swiss authorities said, bringing the total killed in the attack to 17. AQIM is a pan-Maghreb jihadist organisation that has taken responsibility for a number of attacks, particularly in Algeria. The group, which previously called itself the Salafist ...Salafists espouse an austere form of Sunni Islam that seeks a return to practices that were common in the 7th century. Rather than doing that themselves and letting other people alone they insist everybody do as they say and they try to kill everybody who doesn't... Group for Preaching and Combat, says it is the local franchise of al-Qaeda. Moroccan authorities said the chief suspect disguised himself as a guitar-carrying hippie when he planted two bombs in a popular tourist cafe. The bombs took six months to construct and were detonated by remote control using a mobile phone, authorities said. | ||
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