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Morocco Arrests Suicide Attack Suspect
Moroccan police arrested a French citizen wanted in connection with the May suicide attacks in Casablanca that killed 31 bystanders, security officials said. Robert Richard Antoine Pierre was arrested in the northern city of Tangiers, where he had been living with his Moroccan wife, the officials said. Pierre, 28, is the first foreigner implicated in the series of five nearly simultaneous suicide attacks on May 16 that targeted Jewish and Spanish sites in Morocco's economic capital, as well as a major hotel. Moroccan authorities have said they are certain that an international terror network was behind the attacks, which came four days after bombings at foreign housing compounds in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, that killed 35 people, including nine attackers. Pierre, also known as ``Lhaj'' and as ``Abou Abderrahmane,'' was described as ``armed and dangerous'' in wanted posters issued by authorities. You knew he had to have an islamic name, didn't you? The circumstances of his arrest were not immediately made public. Somebody talked Posted by: Steve 2003-06-03 |
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