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http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&tab=wn&ie=UTF-8&q=%22Morocco%22&filter=0

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&tab=wn&ie=UTF-8&q=%22Belbachir%22&filter=0

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=morocco

http://www.tkb.org/Country.jsp?countryCd=MO

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http://themedialine.org/news/news_detail.asp?NewsID=15091

"Top Moroccan Security Officer Fired Over Islamist Plot"
Written by TML Staff
Published Thursday, September 14, 2006

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Last month government officials broke up an Islamist group called An’sar Al-Mahdi, which had managed to recruit at least nine members of the police and military."

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Muhammad Belbachir, a military intelligence service chief, was fired last month because of what official described as his failure to prevent radical Islamists from penetrating the military.

The government said the Islamist group was planning to launch a holy war against Morocco and turn it into an Islamist state. Fifty six members of the group were arrested."

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http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&ie=UTF-8&q=%22Farid+Essebar%22&scoring=d

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http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/0906/360991.html

"Morocco Sees Good in Hacker's Conviction"
Thursday September 14, 2006 4:23pm

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "RABAT, Morocco (AP) - Morocco (website - news) 's most internationally famous criminal of late is not a terrorist or serial killer, but a teenager with a knack for computers. The conviction this week of a Moroccan science student for unleashing the Zotob worm that ravaged U.S. computer networks last year could even be cast as proof that this agriculture-dependent, unemployment-plagued nation is making its mark on the digital world.

In August 2005, Zotob crashed computers across the United States, including those of The Associated Press, The New York Times and other media organizations; companies such as heavy-equipment maker Caterpillar Inc. and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement bureau.

Farid Essebar, then 18, was arrested soon afterward along with accomplices in Morocco and Turkey in a sweep by U.S., Moroccan and Turkish police. On Tuesday a court in Sale, near the capital, Rabat, sentenced him to two years in prison and gave his friend Achraf Bahloul one year.

While few Moroccans are willing to defend Essebar's flagrantly criminal hacking feat, many see it as evidence that their country is making the leap to computer literacy."

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http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2006/09/zotob_worm_authors_behind_bars.html

"Zotob Worm Authors Behind Bars"