On The Right Track

April 2007 | Political Risk Analysis

A number of arrests and allegations planned suicide operations have followed the explosion in internet café in Casablanca, with the authorities claiming that the suspected terrorists panned to blow up foreign ships, hotels and police quarters. Indeed, Morocco is not new to terrorist plots and hundreds of people have been arrested recently for belonging to the banned Islamist opposition group al-Adl w'al-Ihsane (Justice and Charity). More worrying has been fears of Islamist infiltration of the armed forces, with some members of the security forces arrested last year alongside the wives of Air Maroc pilots, since this was a sign that

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