Posted on 02/23/2008 5:19:02 PM PST by Righting
Moroccan terror ring raised funds with European thefts, planned assassinations
Morocco's government said it has dismantled a terrorist network that raised funds through robberies in Europe and plotted to assassinate Cabinet ministers and members of kingdom's Jewish community... Morocco banned an Islamist political party, Al Badil Al Hadari...
Police arrested a total of 32 people.. Abdelhafid Sriti, correspondent for Hezbollah militant group's Al-Manar television station..university professor, a police superintendent.... discovered stashes of weapons..Kalashnikov assault rifles, Uzi submachine guns...
leader.. Abdelkader Belliraj.. links with al-Qaida and local terror groups and is suspected in six assassinations in Belgium from 1986 to 1989... murders were of the former rector of a Brussels mosque in 1989 and chairman of a coordination committee of Jewish groups...
In Morocco network had plotted to assassinate Cabinet ministers, army officers and members of the small Jewish community...raised money through holdups, selling stolen goods and taking contributions from its members. With help from criminals in Europe, member of group allegedly stole €17.5 million (US$25.6 million) in a robbery involving an armored truck company in Luxembourg in 2000...
..Money invested real estate.. Gold jewelry stolen in Belgium melted down by a goldsmith who belonged to the network and then sold... suicide bombings in 2003 in Casablanca killed 45 people and stunned the relatively moderate Muslim country, a popular vacation spot. Those bombings targeted a Jewish community center and cemetery, a hotel, a restaurant and a Spanish social club. Authorities carried out regular anti-terror sweeps... March, suicide bomber blew himself up in Casablanca cyber cafe... uncovered alleged plot targeting tourist sites.. Police cornered suspects, shooting one dead and prompting the other three to blow themselves up to avoid capture.. blasts killed a policeman and injured 21 other people. In April, two brothers strapped with explosives blew themselves up near the U.S. consulate.
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At least they recognize fine Israeli craftsmanship!
Their most recent large-scale theft is the land theft of the Serbian province of Kosovo-Metohija.
Why is George Bush giving them the go-ahead?
I think George is “stuck” with us getting involved there by Bill Clinton.
Ronald Reagan was “stuck” with Jimmy Carter’s appeasement of the Soviet Union but somehow he overcame it.
I guess I just expect more from our “leaders.”
I remember that there was a ring of islamist bank-robbers and cigarette smugglers a few years ago, right here in the good ol’ USA, that used their criminal “earnings” to finance jihad.
It’s wrong to think that America is immune from this kind of operation, whether because of “American exceptionalism”, or because we coddle fifth columnsts and stole Kosovo from the Serbs. The Qu’ran calls for conquest of the WHOLE WORLD, with NO exception for America!!!!
You mean the Hezbollah ring?
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