Morocco

In late September, Morocco's security services arrested 24 members of an alleged terrorist network that had recruited suicide bombers and guerrilla fighters for al-Qaeda in Iraq, Somalia and Afghanistan. The interior ministry said in a statement that the Moroccan network coordinated 'with terrorists in Sweden, Belgium and the Syria-Iraq zone'. The ministry also claimed that the group planned to carry out attacks inside Morocco. Morocco scores 66.7 in the security/external threats component of our short-term political risk

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