Casablanca, 9 March (AKI) - Moroccan police have arrested Saad Hussaini, the alleged mastermind of the May 2003 Casablanca terror attacks, the official MAP news agency reported on Friday. "Saad Hussaini was arrested for his involvement in the Casablanca attacks," in which 45 people died, a high level Moroccan security official was quoted as saying by MAP. Hussaini was identified by the news agency as the military leader of the Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group (Groupe Islamique Combattant Marocain, or GICM), an Islamic fundamentalist group operating in North Africa.
Also known as Mustafa or Nabil, Hussaini, 38, had been a fugitive since 2002. Some reports suggest he could also be one of the masterminds of the 11 March 2004 Madrid train bombings in which 191 people died.
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