Casablanca - Two bombers attack U.S. targets in Morocco

Reuters (excerpt) ^ | April 14, 2007

[HAL9000]

Excerpt -

CASABLANCA, Morocco, April 14 (Reuters) - Two suicide bombers killed themselves in an attack on U.S. diplomatic offices in Morocco's commercial hub Casablanca on Saturday, the scene of three suicide blasts four days ago, witnesses said.

"Only the two bombers were killed," a police source said of the mid-morning attack in the port city.

Witnesses said the first blast happened about six metres (yards) from the U.S. cultural centre and the second went off about 60 metres away from the nearby U.S. consulate.

Police cordoned off the area and were hunting for a third man seen running from the scene who was suspected to also be rigged with explosives on a suicide mission, witnesses said.

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[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I'm shocked, shocked to hear that! (When I read the headline I thought it must be Rick's Place.)

[Dog]

Hey Adm...we got our answer they struck in Morocco.

[snarks_when_bored]

When the bombers just blow themselves up, it’s kind of like performance art. Too bad the clean-up is such a chore...

[SolidWood]

I love happy endings.

[MaDeuce]

Come on, come on ... no one yest has uttered those magic words ... “round up the usual suspects!”

[wtc911]

A-Q’s new home and EU’s new nightmare. This will evolve into a significantly serious problem.

[blam]

The Hole In The Ground That Could Connect Africa With Europe

[Ukiapah Heep]

That's a job for the MSM. But they don't have the hat for it.

[mtbopfuyn]

Those two won’t be playing anything again, Sam.

[wtc911]

They will facilitate their own demise.

[Basheva]

There has been a war going on in Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco for decades with the fundamentalists killing thousands. It hasn’t been covered by our Hollywood obsessed news - but the war has been going on nevertheless.

Egypt is also threatened, only the heavy hand of Mubarak has kept the fundamentalists in check.

Fundamentalism in North Africa is not new - it just keeps resurfacing. The fundamentalist movement in the shape of an army is what actually splintered and eventually killed the fairly enlightened reign of the Caliphs in Spain and allowed the Reconquista of 1492 to be successful under Ferdinand and Isabella.

Though they were Christians and one would normally celebrate their victory - their brand of vicious religious rule was certainly nothing to be proud of.

North Africa is a hot bed of fundamentalism.

[Duke of Milan]

The muslims can attack western Europe from Morocco/Algeria and eastern Europe through Turkey(once Turkey finishes returning to Islam). Europeans, like some Americans, think the WOT will never seriously touch them. Seeing this two prong attack coming, and Europeans so delusional they’re blind, is amazing.

[The Pack Knight]

That's right. Everyone seemed to think the bombings in Algeria were simply part of its own civil war, with the "insurgents", as they've been named by the media, simply taking on the mantle of al-Qaeda while continuing their own local fight. It's as if terrorist attacks in Morocco, Egypt, and in Europe are completely unrelated. It's as if they can't see the terrorist forest for the trees.

The fact that this attempted attack came so close on the heels of the Algeria bombings suggests a possible link. And this is the nature of al-Qaeda; the internationalization of national Islamist movements. These may be the same Islamic revolutionaries we had before, but they're working together in ways impossible only 10-15 years ago.

Vladimir Putin, of all people, got it right when he said in his reaction to September 11 that we faced a "new terrorist international". He should know, of course, since his own former employer, the KGB, served the old "terrorist international" of Communist movements in much the same way as al-Qaeda serves the new Islamist version.