Morocco

Police detained five members of an al Qaeda-linked cell in Sale and Casablanca. The cell pledged allegiance to Ayman al Zawahiri; used the Internet to link up with al Qaeda groups in Syria, Iraq, Turkey, Yemen, and Somalia; and plotted attacks against Western targets.

Bill Roggio is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the Editor of FDD's Long War Journal.

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