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AMSTERDAM - According the Dutch justice department a group of muslim-extremists arrested in Rotterdam plotted an attack on a nuclear target, just across the Belgian border with the Netherlands. It looks that they were not able to plan much of the operation, but for the justice department this information could be of great importance in the case against this group. A French and an Algerian man that were arrested two days after September 11 in Rotterdam, and an Algerian ex-roommate that was later arrested in Canada, planned an attack on the NATO-base 'Kleine Brogel' in Flamish Limburg. At that base,...

RABAT (Reuters) - Morocco has arrested 30 radical Islamists for the alleged killing of more than half a dozen Moroccans, a justice ministry official says. The 30 men, arrested mainly in Casablanca, Fez and Tangiers, were all members of the hardline radical Salafiya Jihadia and Takfir Wal Hidjra groups, said the official on Wednesday, who declined to be named. The accused, who include the Salafiya's spiritual leader known only by his alias Damir (Conscience) and its operations chief Youssef Fikri, were charged with killings, theft and grievous bodily harm, he added. Some of the accused had been in Afghanistan and...