BAGHDAD - Iraq said on Tuesday a Moroccan militant wanted in connection with the Casablanca bombings in 2003 had been linked to three simultaneous car bombings in Balad that killed more than 100 people in September. âMohsen Khayber, aka Abdul Rahim, a Moroccan-born extremist, is a terrorist wanted by Moroccan authorities,â the Iraqi government said in a statement, offering a financial reward for information leading to his arrest in connection with the Balad attacks. It did not give a figure for the reward.
The statement said security officials had found evidence that Khayber, who also uses the alias Abdul Majid Al-Libbi, had moved to Syria in early 2004 where he helped channel foreign militants from Morocco into Iraq.
Couple of Moroccan diplomats were kidnapped in Iraq by al-Q, they sez they're being put on "trial". Guess we know the verdict | The Sept. 29 attacks in the mixed Shia and Sunni Arab town of Balad were among the most deadly in recent months. Two bombs targeted a Shiâite neighbourhood market at dusk, while a third went off about half an hour later nearby. âThe near simultaneous three car series of explosions ... killed more than 100 Iraqi civilians,â the statement said. It did not say how security forces had linked Khayber to the attacks. |