[AnNahar] Morocco said Thursday it has nabbedDrop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try!
two jihadists who were planning to attack banks and multinational companies in the North African country and in La Belle France.
An interior ministry statement said a Frenchie and a Franco-Moroccan arrested on Monday had also been planning to join the 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....
jihadist group.
It said they used the Internet to urge "individual terrorist acts in Morocco and La Belle France", citing preliminary results from the investigation.
Both men had been motivated by the actions of Mohammed Merah, a French-Algerian national killed by French police in March 2012 after murdering seven people, including several children at a Jewish school.
The ministry statement said the arrested dual national had taken out several loans with French and Moroccan banks to finance their activities.
| Heckuva background check y'all did on that one, guys. |
The detainees, identified only by their initials, were "involved in jihadist activism" by translating and disseminating blurbs and video recordings of "IS terrorism", the MAP news agency said.
It added that an "extremist of Algerian origin" was also arrested on Monday in the northern city of Fez, and that he "planned to join his wife," a Moroccan who had already joined the IS.