Posted on 08/08/2006 4:46:30 AM PDT by Valin
RABAT, Morocco, AP -Moroccan security services have arrested 44 suspected terrorists and dismantled a network allegedly planning attacks in the North African country, the state news agency reported Monday. The suspects, who included five former soldiers with explosives expertise, were tracked down in Casablanca and six other cities and towns, the MAP agency reported, citing a statement from the Interior Ministry. Morocco's government has cracked down on suspected terrorists since suicide bombings in Casablanca in 2003 left 45 people dead, and stunned a nation where most espouse moderate Islam.
Police also seized explosives, laboratory materials and propaganda leaflets, the report said. The ministry said that the group's leader was a former convict who recruited Islamic radicals to train them in explosives use and planned to wage a holy war. The group allegedly sought to finance its activities through robberies of financial institutions and bank trucks, the statement said.
Human rights groups allege that innocent people have been caught up in the government's sweep, and that many are tortured.
I'm shocked!
Did they round up the usual suspects?
I am unfamiliar with this term.
Of all the gin joints of all the towns in all the world, you had to strap a bag of explosives onto your back and walk into mine.
That French expression about the more things change the more they remain the same....
I am unfamiliar with this term.
It's where you only want to murder every other Jew, and every third American.
Morocco's King Aims To Build a Modern Islamic Democracy
By Helene Zuber
http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/spiegel/0,1518,druck-394869,00.html
“Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose."
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Any of these phony "feel good about our allies" stories from the Muslims countries all have the same last sentence:
IN THE FRONT DOOR OUT THE BACK.
I pray that this article is an honest interpretation of what is going on there. If there is any aspect of islam that can redeem it, it is sufism, but that is a mere slice of the mainstream.
In my experience, a moderate muslim is one who is simply letting the extremists do the dirty work.
There's no such thing as an islamic Democracy!!
Yet.
And that experience would be?
Shhh!!! Don't tell them that.
Dealing with "moderate" muslims in New York, Chicago, and Virginia who have no tolerance for Jews and grudging tolerance for Christians and other "infidels". Family persecuted in the Middle East by "moderate" muslims, friends who left Lebanon during the previous civil war there because "moderate" muslims suddenly felt empowered to pull Christians and Jews out of their cars and shoot them on the spot.
Shall I go on?
I do believe that there is a small segment of muslims who want to live peacefully with others. Sadly, they are dead men walking in the Middle East.
Mohammed VI is trying to achieve a delicate balance between thousands of years of Islamic traditionDo they have editors at Der Spiegel?
...where most espouse moderate Islam.
A moderate muslim is one that has run out of ammunition.
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