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Morocco has broken up a Ansar al-Mahdi Jihadi terror cell. The town of Tetouan is believed to be “one of the world’s most fertile recruiting ground for jihadists.” Twenty-six Tetouanis have participated in attacks in Iraq and Madrid, Spain.

Morocco has arrested 14 for suspected al Qaeda links. France convicted a Moroccan for an al Qaeda plot, and sentences him to 9 years. Morocco will be part of a new, antiterror nuclear proliferation initiative made up of 12 nations.

The king of Morocco “removed a senior security officer from his position, following the exposure of an Islamist plot to infiltrate the police and armed forces.” MERIA looks at “the Islamization of the political sphere, the continuation of the authoritarian status quo, and accelerated evolution towards democracy.”