[Magharebia] Moroccan judicial police broke up an al-Qaeda cell in Fez, MAP reported on Tuesday (December 25th).The aim of the six-member cell was to "enrol and recruit young Moroccans who have embraced jihadist ideas, in order to send them to al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) camps", AFP quoted the interior ministry as saying in a statement.
The suspects include a "former prisoner incarcerated
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under the anti-terrorism law" after his extradition from Algeria in 2005, the ministry said.
Late last month, members of another Morocco AQIM cell were incarcerated
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in Casablanca, Laayoune, Nador, Guercif and Kelaat Sraghna. The suspects are accused of sending more than 20 young Moroccans to join al-Qaeda and the Movement for Tawhid and Jihad (MUJAO) in northern Mali.