Posted by MoroccoTomorrow | Jan 10, 2013 | Counter-Terrorism |
Algeria’s intelligence co-ordination and military operations are credited with the decline in terror attacks last year. By Walid Ramzi for Magharebia in Algiers [AFP] Bouira, the site of a 2008 attack on a passenger bus,...
Read MorePosted by MoroccoTomorrow | Jan 9, 2013 | Sahara, Sahel |
BAMAKO (AFP) The African Union urged NATO powers Tuesday to send forces to help a regional West African force retake northern Mali from Islamist guerillas, as rebel fighters closed in on Malian forces. “NATO should play a...
Read MorePosted by MoroccoTomorrow | Jan 9, 2013 | Counter-Terrorism |
ALGIERS (AFP) An Algerian court handed a life sentence on Tuesday to Gharbia Amar, an Islamist convicted of participating in the 2003 kidnapping of 15 foreign tourists, including 10 Germans, in the Sahara desert. A Malian,...
Read MorePosted by MoroccoTomorrow | Jan 9, 2013 | Morocco News |
Jerusalem Post By GERSHON BASKIN I am now in Morocco for a workshop sponsored by the United States Environmental Protection Agency on public participation in environmental decision making. Protests in Morocco Photo: (Reuters) I...
Read MorePosted by MoroccoTomorrow | Jan 9, 2013 | Morocco News |
(AFP) RABAT — A top member of Morocco’s largest Islamist group, whose founding leader died last month, has said that the banned but tolerated opposition movement was ready to enter the political fray if the authorities...
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