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| Terror Networks |
| Morocco arrests Saudis' wives |
| 2002-06-12 |
| Morocco has dismantled a group that has been linked to al Qaeda and suspected of preparing suicide attacks on U.S. and allied warships in the Strait of Gibraltar. Three Saudi nationals were picked up in mid-May and are believed to have confessed to planning to use Zodiac inflatable boats packed with explosives against NATO warships. The wives of two of the Saudi men were arrested Monday. They are being interrogated with their husbands and the third Saudi national. "The two young women were apparently married to Saudi nationals preparing terrorist attacks in the Mediterranean. They were aware of what the men were doing," an official said without giving their names and ages. A police official said that the leader of the group, Abdallah el-Gareh, 32, had been picked up at the Casablanca airport and was still being questioned by police. One of the two women arrested was Gareh's Moroccan wife. Police suspect the women were used as couriers between al Qaeda and its members in Morocco. I hope el-Gareh said "Here's lookin' at you, kid" as the Moroccops were dragging him off and beating him with truncheons... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |