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Over 1,000 Moroccan jihadists in Syria
[MAGHAREBIA] More than a thousand Moroccan jihadists have travelled to Syria since 2011, including 900 just in 2013.Those figures were announced on May 14th by Hicham Baali, a representative of the Directorate-General for National Security (DGSN), during a television programme broadcast on 2M. The number of Moroccan fighters in Syria could be much higher if expatriates are counted, according to Romain Caillet, a French researcher and advisor on Islamist issues. He underlined that the phenomenon affects not just Morocco, but several other countries. Posted by: Fred 2014-05-21 |
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