Reply #3: Morocco holds nine suspected al Qaeda activists 4/3/06 [View All]

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RABAT (Reuters) - Security forces in Morocco are holding nine suspected al Qaeda activists, whom local newspapers said were part of a ring that plotted bomb attacks in France, Italy and Morocco, state news agency MAP said on Monday.


Morocco has been on alert since 2003 when suicide bombers killed 45 people in Casablanca, the country's financial capital.

More than 3,000 people have been arrested since on suspicion of having terrorist connections. Many have been released but hundreds have been jailed after trials, officials said.

Local newspapers said the nine suspects planned to participate in a larger plot to blow up a church in Bologna and a commuter train station in Milan, the headquarters of French intelligence services in Paris and the U.S. consulate in Rabat.
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