Morocco: Another Al Qaeda 'Prison Break'

Somebody needs to come down like a ton of bricks on these countries that continue to let Al Qaeda prisoners slip through their fingers. There really is beginning to be a pattern here. I say let's make a new law. You get convicted of involvement with suicide bombing, you do not pass go, you do not get a get out jail free card - you go directly to Gitmo.

Nine people convicted of involvement with suicide bombings in Casablanca have escaped from a Moroccan prison, officials say.

Prison authorities at Kenitra, 40km (25 miles) north of the capital, Rabat, noticed the escape on Monday morning, the Justice Ministry told state media. An interior ministry source told AFP news agency that the prisoners had tunnelled their way out.

The 2003 attacks left 45 people dead, including 12 bombers, and many injured.

Most of the nine men were serving life sentences for involvement in the bombings, a group which supports Islamist prisoners said.

The men are reported to have escaped just after morning prayers on Monday.

A source close to Islamist prisoners told the BBC the nine men had left a message on the wall of their jail.

It said they had suffered injustice and were escaping because they saw no other solution to their woes, stressing that they had received no outside help for their prison break.
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