MORE al Qaeda linked terrorists arrested in Morocco

Round 'em up.

Eleven men arrested in Morocco on suspicion of terrorist activities were allegedly plotting an attack on an EU building and a hotel in Brussels, according to reports from the north African country yesterday.

One of the group, named in the Belgian media as Abdellatif Bekkali, is a Belgian citizen while others were alleged to have links to an al-Qaeda group that trained terrorists in Algeria and Mauritania for operations in Iraq.

Both the European Commission and the European Parliament said that they were unaware of a specific threat but there was speculation that the arrests were linked to the security alert that led to the cancellation of new year festivities in the centre of Brussels this year.

The group was said to be associated with Issam Goris, a suicide bomber killed in Baghdad. He was married to Muriel Degauque, the Belgian woman thought to be the first Western suicide bomber when she attacked a US convoy in 2005. The arrests were made in the towns of Fez and Nador in the north of Morocco.

About those targets?

European Union buildings and the Sheraton Hotel in the EU's capital, Brussels, were among the targets of an Islamist terrorist cell broken up in Morocco, Belgian media say.

The cell reportedly had been training jihadis to send to Iraq, too. It is interesting to note that these suspects ALL deny any al Qaeda involvement.

I'm happy to report that the Moroccan DA in charge of the trial for 27 terror suspects rounded up a few weeks ago is asking for mandatory jail sentences...(what were they going to do with them otherwise, I wonder. Have them do weed and seed duty along the highways?) Unfortunately, he's only asking for sentences of 10-20 years and not life in prison.

Although if you will recall, Moroccan prison life can be pretty darn good if you're a radical islamist terror scumbag.

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