Once again, initial assumptions that Christianists were behind this have proved to be incorrect. “Morocco ‘holds 11 over planned attacks,'” from AFP, May 19 (thanks to Louis):
RABAT (AFP) – Moroccan police have broken up a “terrorist network” of 11 people with links to Al-Qaeda that was planning attacks in Morocco and Belgium, the MAP national news agency said Monday.
The 11, who include a Moroccan resident in Belgium, were picked up in the central city of Fes and in Nador, in the north of the country, MAP said.
They had links with “groups sending volunteers to Iraq and camps of Al-Qaeda’s branch in North Africa,” the agency added, giving no names….
That group faces charges including murder and attempted murder with firearms, robbery, money laundering, criminal association with terrorist intent and forging official and identity documents….