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...Arab TV network al-Jazeera in February, a man claiming to be bin Laden called on "honest Muslims" to "liberate themselves from those unjust and renegade regimes that are enslaved by the United States." Among the "most qualified regions for liberation," the speaker continued, were Saudi Arabia and Morocco...
When the smoke had cleared and the wreckage and bodies were being carted away, stunned Moroccans turned their attention to another casualty of the May 16 Casablanca terrorist bombings: the nation's sense of itself. Morocco has long tried to occupy a middle ground between its European and North American allies on one side and the conservative, Islam-dominated societies of fellow Arab countries. Now Moroccans fear they may have the worst of both worlds: the strain of jihadist militancy rooted in the affluent nations of the Middle East, and the vast, economically stricken populations from which al-Qaeda networks...
...being the operational commander of the Bali bombings?is not the only one predicting further violence. A chorus of intelligence agents, diplomats, terrorism experts and police investigators are warning that the next big al-Qaeda-linked strike against foreigners, after last week's suicide bombings in Saudi Arabia and Morocco, could indeed occur in Southeast Asia...
...volunteer jihadis had flocked from all over the world. But the U.S.-led ouster of the Taliban regime put Bin Laden's men to flight, forcing them to scatter and decentralize their operations across Pakistan's cities and tribal areas, in remote parts of Chechnya and Georgia, in Morocco, Yemen and other Arab countries, possibly even in Iran according to some intelligence estimates, and, more recently, once again inside Afghanistan's increasingly anarchic countryside. Far greater emphasis was placed on these scattered cells taking local initiatives and striking at targets of opportunity...
...headquarters of the U.S. Central Command, voters approved a new constitution last month that creates a parliament and enshrines the right of women to stand for election. In Bahrain, significant reforms including elections last year have eased sectarian conflict between ruling Sunni Muslims and the majority Shiites. Last September, Morocco held parliamentary elections widely regarded as the first free, fair, and transparent balloting in the country's history...