Morocco bombing investigation goes international
Casablanca, Morocco (CNN) -- Three more suspects have been arrested in connection with the April 28 bombing in Marrakech which killed 17 people and injured 20 others. CNN learned Wednesday from security sources that Moroccan police have apprehended three Moroccan males in the coastal town of Safi, the hometown of the alleged chief perpetrator of the bombing, Adil El Atmani. This brings the total number of arrests in Morocco to six. The sources confirmed that El Atmani is the chief suspect held by the police, following press speculation this week that he was being held, which was unconfirmed by the Moroccan government. The security sources also confirmed that Moroccan authorities are working closely with the FBI and German police. They pointed to the recent arrests in Germany of three men, two of them with connections to Morocco, who are accused of plotting terror attacks in Germany. They said those arrests came the day after the Marrakech attack, and that the leader of the German cell is a Moroccan who was in contact with El Atmani before the Marrakech bombing and is known by German security services to be both an operative of al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and an expert in explosives. AQIM has denied any link to the Marrakech bombing, but the denial is being met with increasing skepticism by some Moroccan news media. An editorial in the French-language daily Aujourd'hui said the statement by the North African al Qaeda cell -- put out a week after the bombing -- was unprecedented and "contradicts itself." On Wednesday, Moroccan authorities held a staged reconstruction of the bombing in Marrakech, which tore through a café. Authorities have said the bomber remotely triggered two explosives, which he had placed there while disguised as a Western hippie. Links referenced within this article Find this article at: http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/05/11/morocco.bombing.probe/index.h tml?eref=edition_world&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Fe ed%3A+rss%2Fedition_world+%28RSS%3A+World%29&utm_content=Google+Reader [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [email protected]. -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [email protected] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [email protected] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
