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...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, and Spain, a Christian one, are united in the fight against...
...Spanish constitution before him. The changeover is more than merely ceremonial. Yes, the early days of Zapatero's government - like the final days of his predecessor's - will be overshadowed by the fallout from the March 11 Madrid bombings. Two days before his inauguration, three more men - a Moroccan, a Saudi and an Egyptian - were detained for questioning in connection with the attacks; on Saturday, a Bosnian on a police wanted list turned himself in. But nearly everything else seems set to change. Zapatero's ambitious agenda includes new approaches to both Spain's constitution and Europe's, awarding...
...standoff Saturday night that also killed an agent. Officials had earlier in the week identified a Tunisian man, Sarhane Ben Abdelmajid Fakhet, as "leader and coordinator" of the train blasts that killed 191, and they had a warrant for his arrest as well as the arrests of five Moroccan accomplices. It wasn't immediately clear whether Fakhet was linked to the raid. The standoff occurred just a day after an inspector near Toledo spotted a 26-lb. bomb along a rail line and in a week when letter bombs went out to three Spanish media outlets...
...think so. Fakhet was not on any agency's radar screen even a year ago, but he appears to have linked up with remnants of an alleged al-Qaeda cell in Spain, most of whose members, mainly Syrians, were arrested in November 2001. Among them was Jamal Zougam, a Moroccan who was one of the the first arrested in Madrid for the train bombings. After they picked him up, police found a note in his apartment bearing the cell-phone number of another Moroccan who had long been on their wanted list: Amer Azizi, a veteran of the Bosnian...
...until April 26), which tells, a cappella, of an early battle against apartheid, and dance shows such as Tapsula (April 12 to June 30), which mixes tap and local township jive. Market Theatre's other great attraction is the trendy Moyo restaurant, which serves dishes from around Africa; the Moroccan lamb tagine ($9) is to die for. Newtown also houses cool jazz venues, private art collections, dance studios and a museum focusing on the history of Johannesburg...