Word: morocco
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...There have been a number of al-Qaeda inspired terror strikes since September 11 2001 - in Indonesia, Kenya, Pakistan, Morocco, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia and possibly even Iraq. Further plots have been disrupted in Europe, the Arab world and possibly the U.S. But the movement's fortunes, over the past two years, cannot be judged by the number of attacks it has launched, any more than the success of President Bush's "war on terror" can be measured by the number of al-Qaeda operatives captured or killed...
...Qaeda's game plan, the attacks of 9/11 were not an end in themselves, but a means to pursue their goal of driving the U.S. out of the Muslim world, overthrowing the pro-U.S. regimes in states such as Egypt and Saudi Arabia (and eventually everywhere from Morocco to Indonesia), and to eliminate the Jewish state in their midst. Al-Qaeda propaganda regularly proclaims that the U.S. will flee from a head-on fight in Muslim lands, citing the examples of the withdrawals from Beirut in 1985 and Mogadishu in '94. Bin Laden is unlikely to have imagined that...
...film production is controlled chaos, and Troy (whose reported budget is an epic $145 million) is no exception. Early this year, as the Iraq war approached, the production judiciously moved from Morocco to Baja California. On the Malta location this spring, severe heat brought fainting spells on many of the burly Bulgarians hired as extras. One bit player, a former Mr. Malta named George Camilleri, suffered a leg wound while jumping from a galleon and died a few weeks later...
...SENTENCED. Muhammad el-Omari, Yassine Lahnach, Rachid Jalil, Hassan Tawsi, to death for their roles in five suicide bomb attacks that killed 45 people, including 12 bombers, in May; in Casablanca. The four are members of outlawed terrorist group Salafia Jihadia, which targets U.S. interests and Jews in Morocco. Four Spaniards and three French nationals died in the attacks...
...cited as proof against such skepticism the separation of mosque and state in Turkey, and trends towards democracy in Kuwait, Jordan, Morocco and especially Iran, where democratic reforms and a new generation of citizens reevaluating the role of religion in their lives are taking root...