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Morocco holds 15 Qaeda suspects
 Moroccan police have detained 15 Al Qaeda suspected members who were plotting to blow up sensitive targets in the North African country, a newspaper reported on Tuesday.The main Arabic daily Al Massa, quoting security sources, said four of the 15 suspects came from Al Qaedas base in Algeria and had sneaked into Morocco to prepare dangerous and sophisticated terror attacks. Morocco, citing an intelligence warning of an imminent attack, last week raised its security alert to the highest level and deployed more than 5,000 police and paramilitary gendarmes to guard strategic points. Assabah, another Arabic daily, said separately that a Moroccan anti-terrorist police squad had arrested three Al Qaeda suspects who were preparing bomb attacks in Morocco. The newspaper said the three were detained after a French intelligence tip-off that they intended to link up with other Al Qaeda members from Algeria and Mauritania and carry out attacks in Morocco. Asked to comment, an Interior Ministry official said: We are only aware of the arrest of 13 Syrians who came from Algeria illegally to try to reach Spain. They are illegal migrants. Posted by: Fred 2007-07-11 |
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