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Morocco arrests 3 al Qaeda "planning ship attacks"
REUTERS ^ | 06/10/02

Posted on 06/10/2002 4:57:01 PM PDT by The Magical Mischief Tour

Monday, June 10, 2002

Morocco arrests 3 al Qaeda "planning ship attacks" SKHIRAT, Morocco, June 10 (Reuters) - Morocco has arrested three Saudi members of al Qaeda who had been preparing to carry out "terrorist attacks" on U.S. and British ships in the Straits of Gibraltar, a senior government official said on Monday.

"Morocco's security services have dismantled a network of al Qaeda who planned terrorist attacks on U.S. and British warships crossing the Straits of Gibraltar... It was a successful operation," the official, who declined to be named, told Reuters.

The official said the three men, holding Saudi passports, were arrested in Morocco last month, but he declined to identify them.

The three were being held in custody in Casablanca prior to their interrogation by the prosecutor, the official said.


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To: GaryMontana
How do you know the Arabs in the Middle East were happy after the 9/11 bombing? There are an awful lot of them and their societies generally frown on opinion surveys, so we know no one asked them.

Then there's the issue of Moslems elsewhere. Africa is full of them. Southeast Asia is full of them. In fact, the world's largest Moslem country is there. The Turks are Moslem.

Wouldn't it be better to just get rid of the Arabs and not offend the religious sensibilities of all those other folks? Hmmmmm!?!?

The enemy in this case is a gang of Islamisists, not Islam, or people who are Moslem. Our other Moslem enemy is a secularist - Saddam Hussein.

It is tiring trying to get folks who have no trouble differentiating between Baptists and Democrats to apply the same subtle distinctions to folks in the Middle East and the Moslem world.

You can differentiate between Baptists and Democrats, right?

21 posted on 06/11/2002 5:08:43 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: GaryMontana
I don't see how dumping planeloads of phosphorescent sea creatures on Islamic capitals will help the situation.
22 posted on 06/11/2002 6:46:09 AM PDT by ReadMyMind
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To: GaryMontana
If we nuke Mecca there is nothing left for islam.

I wonder whether nuking Mecca would harm Islam or add 1.1 billion to the ranks fanatics.

The temple in Jerusalem has been destroyed a few times in the last 5000 years, but the Jews are still around. If the Vatican were nuked, would it end Catholicism?

23 posted on 06/11/2002 6:50:51 AM PDT by ReadMyMind
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To: muawiyah
Wouldn't it be better to just get rid of the Arabs and not offend the religious sensibilities of all those other folks? Hmmmmm!?!?

I've noticed this too. With the exception of a few others (the Persian Ayatollah and a few heavyweight Pashtuns) it is almost exclusively Arabs causing the problem. Not Turks, not Hashemites, not Beoduins(sp?), but the Arab majorities in S.A., Jordan, Egypt, Syria, and Iraq, and the Arab minorities who stir up trouble in places like Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, the U.K., France, here in the U.S....

24 posted on 06/11/2002 7:00:16 AM PDT by jae471
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To: ReadMyMind
Good points, but the "nuke Mecca" crowd doesn't care. They keep making the same posts every day for nine months now.
25 posted on 06/11/2002 7:04:28 AM PDT by Dog Gone
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To: Dog Gone
They keep making the same posts every day for nine months now

That's because they're trying to show theirs is the more "peaceful religion."

26 posted on 06/11/2002 7:14:09 AM PDT by ASA Vet
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To: ASA Vet
LOL!
27 posted on 06/11/2002 7:15:25 AM PDT by Dog Gone
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To: StriperSniper
" Round up the usual suspects...."
28 posted on 06/11/2002 7:37:07 AM PDT by Walkingfeather
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To: The Magical Mischief Tour
I read on lucianne.com that the wives of two of the Saudi men have also been arrested for being part of the plot.
29 posted on 06/11/2002 7:59:25 AM PDT by aristeides
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To: StriperSniper
I'm shocked! Shocked I tell you!

So am I. I'm shocked that Reuters actually used the word "terrorist" in one of its articles.

30 posted on 06/11/2002 9:30:16 AM PDT by Coop
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To: The Magical Mischief Tour
I have just hear the Security Chief of the Cebta (Spanish enclave in Morocco) taking on Radio Nacional de España. He was forced by the anchor (the guy did not want to criticize his neighbors) to acknowledge that he did not buy the story. That he thought it was full of wind

Morocco, a country that -it is true- works against Islamism, wants the USA to notice that it is important. And that there are two Spanish cities in front of Gibraltar

31 posted on 06/11/2002 3:26:00 PM PDT by MarcusMartialis
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32 posted on 06/11/2002 3:26:22 PM PDT by Mo1
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