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To: haqihana who wrote (8021)9/6/2003 9:27:22 PM
From: lorne   of 8683
 
Teen girls held for Morocco 'plot'
By Pascale Harter
BBC, Rabat
news.bbc.co.uk

Police in Morocco have said that they have detained three teenage girls, including twin sisters, suspected of planning a suicide attack on a supermarket in the capital, Rabat.


Police have been on alert since the Casablanca bombings in May
They say they have uncovered a cell of a radical Islamic group which was planning to attack targets in the capital, Rabat.

According to the police, they have arrested eight more suspected members of the Salafia Jihadia cell and are carrying out a manhunt for 17 more.

So far Rabat has escaped attacks by the radical Islamic organisation which blew up Western and Jewish targets in the commercial city of Casablanca in May killing 45 people.

But with this discovery, the capital is once again on high alert.

Alert

According to police the group planned to carry out suicide attacks on a parliament building, a supermarket in a prosperous neighbourhood of Rabat and against several high profile personalities.

The Ministry of Justice is conducting an investigation into the cell.

The ministry says that police were first alerted to the existence of a Rabat-based terrorist group through the statements of the two teenage girls.
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