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Morocco has raised the security alert to the maximum level after a visit from US and European intelligence officials. The Interior Ministry said it received “reliable intelligence information” an attack is imminent.

Moroccan security forces broke up a series of al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb cells throughout the country. About 20 al Qaeda operatives were arrested in raids nationwide.

Two suicide bombers blew themselves up while attempting to attack the U.S. consulate and cultural center in Casablanca. Police are looking for a third bomber. Three suicide bombers killed themselves on Wednesday as police conducted raids in Casablanca.

Police detained 2 terror suspects near the site where 3 suicide bombers detonated on April 10. The country is on high alert after the Algiers bombings. Morocco’s interior minister claimed there is no link with the Algiers bombings. Spain is concerned, and placed the enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla on “permanent Alert.”

Moroccan police killed one terrorist while three others detonated their explosives after police conducted raids in the capital of Casablanca. The bombers were members of a cell whose leader blew himself up in a cafe in early March.

The jihadi who blew himself up at an internet cafe in Casablanca earlier this month was the leader of a 30 man terror cell planning to bomb the Moroccan port cities of Casablanca, Agadir, and Essaouira. He detonated his vest after the cafe owner called police. Twenty-four of the 30 man cell have been captured.

Abdelfattah Raydi, the Internet cafe suicide bomber, served jail time for membership in an Islamist “militant group.” Moroccan intelligence indicated the western Sahara is infiltrated with al- Qaeda.

A suicide bomber detonated his vest in an Internet cafe in Casablanca, killing himself and wounding three, including his ‘companion.’The men were “seeking access to terrorist Web sites,”and “when the owner’s son forbid them from doing so, one of the men suddenly blew himself up.”

Moroccan police arrested 7 “Salafite Jihadists” believed to be linked to al Qaeda in the Maghrebin the city of Meknes. Explosives were also reported to have been confiscated during the raid.

Morocco broke up a recruiting cell for al Qaeda in Iraq. Sixty-two Islamists were arrested. Those detained include “al Qaeda, the Algeria-based Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) and other international terrorist organisations…”