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...adventures are likely far from over, as he travels to Casablanca, Morocco on Aug. 16 to teach at the Casablanca American School for at least the next 10 months. Bar Am’s tentative future plan is to return to the United States for graduate school, likely in nursing...
...before police could arrest him in November 2001. A year earlier, Turkish police had detained Azizi in Istanbul, along with fellow Moroccans Said Berraj and Salahedin Benyaich. All three men were released. Berraj is a suspect in the Madrid bombings; Benyaich has been jailed for his role in the Casablanca attacks last May. A Heavy Hand THAILAND The government denied security services had used excessive force in killing more than 100 mostly young suspected Muslim separatists who attacked security posts in the country's predominantly Muslim south. Thirty-two of the men died when troops besieged a mosque where they...
...Zarqawi is said to be a commander of Ansar al-Islam, the Kurdish guerrilla group linked to al-Qaeda, which may be behind the wave of suicide bombings in Iraq. But al-Zarqawi also has a wider influence. Western intelligence officials say terrorists tied to recent attacks in Casablanca, Istanbul and Madrid all had contacts with him. With much of al-Qaeda's leadership destroyed, al-Zarqawi is an archetype of the new terrorism threat: a global operator plugged into a network of like-minded Islamists from London to Lahore. In his letter, al-Zarqawi declared that if his efforts...
...terrorism. Authorities refused to comment on reports that the 10 were planning a bomb attack on soccer club Manchester United's stadium, but stepped up security at the ground. First Week SPAIN Just days after taking office, new PM José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero arrived in Casablanca for discussions on terrorism and illegal immigration with his Moroccan counterpart, Driss Jettou. "This visit is much more significant than just going to eat a bowl of couscous," Spain 's new director general of communications, Javier Valenzuela, told TIME. "We want to show the world that Morocco, an Islamic nation...
GUND HALL Casablanca, April...