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Suicide attack in Morocco just the beginning
By Olivier Guitta

As I have been yelling for the past year, the Maghreb and especially Morocco is very vulnerable to terrorist attacks. It's also become one of the favorite targets of Al Qaeda since the Algerian GSPC changed its name to Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.
In a way compared to Algeria and Tunisia, Morocco is the soft belly of the region. As I mentioned in a previous post just a few days ago, "In Casablanca, some agents have even started to account for all the hardware stores (potential buying place for getting explosives), the cybercafés and the apartments occupied by single people in various areas of the city."
And just last night a cybercafe in Casablanca was hit. While details remain sketchy, here is what we know: a suicide bomber detonated his vest last night in a cybercafe killing himself and injuring four. According to news services, the attack was not aimed at the cybercafe. But two terrorists carrying explosive belts entered the cybercafe to surf the web. They were connected to a terrorism-linked site and the manager wanted to prevent them to do so.
When he approached one of the two terrorists, the suicide bomber decided to activate his bomb. Its accomplice fled but was stopped by Moroccan police. The most credible explanation for what happened last night is that the two terrorists wanted to consult Internet to receive their orders for an attack against another target.

http://counterterrorismblog.org/

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In Iraq there are some news and roamers (sic)[rumors] about imminent major attacks on the same time in the next few weeks or even days. Targets to inflame the situation like religious sites are high on the agenda of the terrorists as well as the use of non-conventional weapons. This may come as part of the terrorists to say that the Baghdad security plan failed.
http://www.hammorabi.blogspot.com/