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Morocco Arrests Six over IS Allegiance Pledge on Video
[AnNahar] Morocco has juggedKeep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! six suspects after an online video showed masked men pledging allegiance to the head of the jihadist 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.... group, officials and media said on Sunday. Media reports said the video that went online last week was filmed in Morocco and showed three masked men holding the IS flag and introducing themselves as soldiers of the Islamic State. The video purported to announce the creation of "Jund al-Khilafa" or soldiers of the caliphate, in the Maghreb. The interior ministry said three people were arrested in connection with the video on Saturday and three more on Sunday. A statement did not identify the suspects but said the head of the group and two of his accomplices "were jugged You have the right to remain silent... in 2008... for their involvement in terrorist plots" and links with al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. A cell phone used to film the video was seized by security forces and police, as was a blade one suspect held while all three were "pledging allegiance to (IS chief) His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us... ," it said. According to the interior ministry, the suspects also "threatened to carry out criminal acts" in Morocco after undergoing military training at IS camps in Libya, Syria and Iraq. Morocco has announced the arrest of several would-be jihadists in recent weeks, and last month it boosted security across the kingdom to counter any threat. Authorities say that more than 2,000 Moroccan jihadists, including some with dual nationality, are now fighting in Syria and Iraq where IS has set up a caliphate in territory it controls. Posted by: trailing wife 2014-11-24 |
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