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Morocco arrests seven on suspicion of Islamic State ties
[AlAhram] Morocco said on Friday its security forces had placed in durance vileMaw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! a group of seven suspected Islamist hard boyz linked to 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.... (ISIS), including the group's leader, who has been recruiting fighters. The Islamist group, the latest of a series that the authorities say they have found plotting attacks inside and outside the country, had been active in the town of Dar Bouazza, near Casablanca, they said. The group had been in contact with ISIS in Iraq and Syria and had tried to send fighters there for training so that they could return to carry out attacks on Moroccan soil, the interior ministry said in a statement. "Investigations showed that the leader of the group had solid contacts with commanders of ISIS on the ground in Iraq and Syria," the statement said. The government believes 2,000 Moroccan nationals are fighting with gangs in Syria and Iraq. About 220 have returned home and been incarcerated Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! and 286 have been killed. Posted by: trailing wife 2016-01-09 |
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