Stoned_Rider
9 Aug 2006, 09:35 AM
RABAT (Reuters) - Morocco's security services broke up a "terrorist network" planning to declare a holy war in the northeast of the North African country, state news agency MAP reported on Monday.
The authorities arrested 44 members of the previously unknown Jammaat Ansar El Mehdi (El Mehdi Support Group) and seized explosives, propaganda material and laboratory equipment, the agency quoted an Interior Ministry statement as saying.
The group's leader "aimed to proclaim the jihad", or holy war, it said. It did not say when or where the arrests, the biggest such round-up this year, took place but added that the group planned to operate in the kingdom's northeast.
Morocco has been on alert since 2003 when suicide bombers killed 45 people in Casablanca, the country's financial capital.
The government said earlier this year it had busted more than 50 terrorist cells with more than 2,000 members since the bombings, a traumatic event in a normally peaceful country that relies on tourism for much of its hard currency earnings.
Reuters (http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2006-08-07T190524Z_01_L07820640_RTRUKOC_0_US-SECURITY-MOROCCO.xml&archived=False)
Of course, Islam has absolutely nothing to do with this. Islam is the religion of peace, and there is only a tiny minority of extremists among muslims!
There must be a political motive behind this. Morocco must have a long record of oppressing and persecuting Muslims. Either that, or Morocco's foreign policy must be upsetting the Muslims somehow. Just look at all those Moroccan troops deployed in Iraq, killing and raping Iraqis mercilessly!
Also, It must be a close ally to Israel. In fact, the Moroccan government and media are controlled by Zionists. Hell, the King himself must be a Zionist!
Yes, yes, those must be the reasons. After all, these terrorists are just normal people. They wouldn't blow things up just like that, would they? There must be a good reason. Did I mention that Islam has absolutely nothing to do with this?
The authorities arrested 44 members of the previously unknown Jammaat Ansar El Mehdi (El Mehdi Support Group) and seized explosives, propaganda material and laboratory equipment, the agency quoted an Interior Ministry statement as saying.
The group's leader "aimed to proclaim the jihad", or holy war, it said. It did not say when or where the arrests, the biggest such round-up this year, took place but added that the group planned to operate in the kingdom's northeast.
Morocco has been on alert since 2003 when suicide bombers killed 45 people in Casablanca, the country's financial capital.
The government said earlier this year it had busted more than 50 terrorist cells with more than 2,000 members since the bombings, a traumatic event in a normally peaceful country that relies on tourism for much of its hard currency earnings.
Reuters (http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2006-08-07T190524Z_01_L07820640_RTRUKOC_0_US-SECURITY-MOROCCO.xml&archived=False)
Of course, Islam has absolutely nothing to do with this. Islam is the religion of peace, and there is only a tiny minority of extremists among muslims!
There must be a political motive behind this. Morocco must have a long record of oppressing and persecuting Muslims. Either that, or Morocco's foreign policy must be upsetting the Muslims somehow. Just look at all those Moroccan troops deployed in Iraq, killing and raping Iraqis mercilessly!
Also, It must be a close ally to Israel. In fact, the Moroccan government and media are controlled by Zionists. Hell, the King himself must be a Zionist!
Yes, yes, those must be the reasons. After all, these terrorists are just normal people. They wouldn't blow things up just like that, would they? There must be a good reason. Did I mention that Islam has absolutely nothing to do with this?