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July 25, 2004
Morocco Warns Spain About Militants

AP: Morocco Warns Spain About Militants

Moroccan authorities have warned Spain that they have lost track of 400 suspected militants who trained in al-Qaida terrorist camps in Afghanistan, a newspaper reported Sunday.

Most of the suspects in the Madrid train bombings were Moroccan, prompting that country's government to alert Spanish anti-terrorism judge Baltasar Garzon of the situation during a meeting in Rabat, Morocco, in early July.

About 600 Moroccans were known to have trained in Afghanistan in camps sponsored by Osama bin Laden (news - web sites), the daily El Pais said, quoting unidentified sources close to police and judicial officials.

But Morocco knew the whereabouts of only 200 of them, El Pais said.

Posted by Laurence Simon at July 25, 2004 09:35 AM | TrackBack
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It's not so much that they've 'lost track' of 400 Al Qaeda fighters (where's the outrage btw!), they probably guesstimating this number (on the conservative side, probably), meaning they never got even close to tracking them.

And I do hope that the other 200 are either dead or locked up.

from mid-August till mid-September, some 2,8 million Moroccans will be travelling back from Morocco to their homes all over Europe, after having visited family, etc. All along the Spanish southern coast, no more than a combined force (incl. rotations etc.) of 7,000 police will be on guard.

Posted by: V-Man [TypeKey Profile Page] at July 25, 2004 03:02 PM

Oops! Um, well, they were around here a minute ago....

Anyone seen those militants? Hello...?

Posted by: Barry [TypeKey Profile Page] at July 26, 2004 05:22 PM

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