Just keep repeating, there is no threat.
Morocco breaks up al Qaeda recruiting gang
Reuters ^ | 5/6/07
RABAT (Reuters) - Moroccan security forces broke up a network helping to recruit fighters for al Qaeda’s North African branch and arrested around 20 people overnight in several towns across the country, a government official said on Sunday.
The gang was involved in sending volunteers to training camps run by the Algerian-based al Qaeda Organisation in the Islamic Maghreb, formerly known as the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC), the official said, confirming an earlier report by state news agency MAP.
“The operation ... allowed the arrest of around 20 people in several towns across the kingdom,” MAP said. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, declined to give more details.
Morocco, a staunch U.S. ally, says it has broken up more than 50 militant Islamist cells, some linked to al Qaeda, and arrested more than 3,000 people since suicide bombings in the country’s economic capital Casablanca in 2003.
Four years of calm were broken this year when six Islamists blew themselves up in the course of a month in Casablanca, killing one other person. On April 11, triple suicide bombings in the capital of neighbouring Algeria killed 33 people.
The attacks have deepened fears of a broad upsurge in violence across the region after the GSPC changed its name with the goal of fusing similar Islamist groups in the region and using it as a base for attacks on European targets.
Morocco’s government has pledged a war without respite on violent Islamist groups after the latest attacks.
Local human rights groups say the authorities abuse the rights of many people arrested under anti-terrorism laws, submitting them to unfair trials and ill-treatment. The government denies any such abuse.
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That’s what the dems want us to think.