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MIDDLE EAST: FEARS THAT IRAQ JIHAD VETS COULD SET UP NEW NORTH AFRICAN CELLS <javascript:aumenta();> <javascript:diminuisci();> Rabat and Algiers, 10 May (AKI) - The Moroccan and Algerian authorities are worried jihadists currently in Iraq could return home and set up new terror cells, Moroccan terrorism expert Abdallah Rami told Spanish daily El Pais. "They will come to continue waging holy war which for them is like the call to prayer," he said. Cities such as Tetouan in northern Morocco and El Oued in Algeria could become real hotbeds for jihadi recruitment, the paper warns. Many of the jihadists are ready to use what they learned in Iraq back in their own countries. "And this is what North Africans fear," said Rami. He is a researcher at Morocco's Centre for the Study of Social Sciences. The members of North African jihadi cells are Salafites who adhere to a Sunni fundamentalist school of Islam. "For Salafites, there is not much difference between the United States and the Moroccan government, which it considers apostate," said Moroccan terrorism expert Mohammed Darif. "Al-Qaeda's priority remains Iraq," said Mohammed el Ayadi, a political scientist at the Hassan II Mohammedia University in Mohammedia, northwestern Morocco. "For bin Laden's network, Morocco currently respresents a logistical base above all," he added. No hard data exist on jihadi terrorists who have volunteered to wage holy war in Iraq, but many are from Algeria, experts say. In the deprived Jamaa Mezuak neighbourhood of Tetouan, at least 40 young jihadists went to Iraq according to the Moroccan weekly Le Journal. Similiar numbers of jihadists are believed to have headed to Iraq from El Oued. The Moroccan and Algerian authorities remain on high alert after several recent suicide bombings in Casablanca and Algiers. [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: osint@yahoogroups.com 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.shtml Yahoo! 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: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[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/
