Wednesday, December 29, 2010

6 alleged terrorists "active in cyber-terrorism" arrested in Morocco for plotting bombings in the country and abroad

From AFP,

Moroccan authorities said Monday they recently arrested six extremists suspected of using the Internet to plan acts of sabotage involving the use of car bombs both inside and outside the country.

"Ring members developed considerable expertise in bomb-making" through the Internet [said the interior ministry]

the six were arrested around December 10 in the northeastern towns of Oujda and Nador as well as in Casablanca.


From Reuters,

The cell was also "active in cyber-terrorism," the [interior] ministry added, without giving details on this aspect of its activity.

"Members of this network have acquired a broad experience in the making of explosives and planned to use it in sabotage acts in several international hotspots ... as well as within national territory," it said.




Source: AFP, Reuters



Comments: Are these alleged terrorists Islamists or do they have something to do with the Morocco occupied Western Sahara?



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