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The ten-member terror cell, featuring a French citizen and a minor, which was dismantled mid-February was planning to perpetrate “biological attacks in the kingdom,” revealed the Moroccan Interior Ministry on Thursday. Some of the substances seized during the arrest operation are classified by international organizations specializing in health issues within the category of dangerous biological […]
The ten-member ISIS cell, including a French national and a 16-year old minor, dismantled in El Jadida Thursday was planning car bomb attacks and the use of biological weapons. The initial findings of the investigations revealed that the group is not a mere terrorist cell, but “a genuine armed commando,” said Abdelhak Khiam, the director […]
Morocco’s Central Bureau of Judicial Investigation has dismantled a heavily armed 10-member terror cell that was active in Essaouira, Meknes and Sidi Kacem, the Interior Ministry announced on Thursday. A French national was among the cell members, the Ministry said, adding that the anti-terrorist brigade of the Central Bureau of Judicial Investigation (BCIJ,) called Morocco’s […]
Moroccan security agencies have dealt in 2015 hard blows to ISIS at home and overseas. Thus, they take serious the threats made by Islamic militants and religious fanatics to carry out revenge attacks on New Year’s Eve. Moroccan law enforcement & counter-terror services have all reasons to be concerned. They have disrupted plots after plots […]
Moroccan authorities have announced the arrest during the few past days of another six members of the terror Islamic cell they dismantled September 12th, showing the Kingdom’s tireless efforts and firm determination to combat terrorism. According to Central Bureau of Judicial Investigation (BCIJ), an FBI-like Bureau of Investigations, the criminal involvement of the newly captured […]
Moroccan police have nabbed another group of radical militants who were planning to create an Islamic State affiliate in the North African country and undermine its stability. The cell was operating in the southern city of Essaouira and the central town of Sidi Allal Al-Bahraoui, according to the Moroccan Central Bureau of Judicial Investigation (BCIJ), […]
Moroccan and Spanish authorities announced Tuesday that joint coordinated anti-terrorism operations enabled to disintegrate ISIS recruitment cells operating in Morocco and Spain. The operations led to the arrest of 14 suspects, 13 in Morocco and one in Spain. “The Central Bureau of Judicial Investigations (BCIJ) dismantled Tuesday, in coordination with the Spanish security services, a […]
The newly set up Central Bureau of Judicial Investigation (BCIJ) has dismantled a jihadist cell at Selouane in the region of Nador, close to the Spanish enclave of Melilla, and arrested six of its members. According to the Moroccan Ministry of the Interior which made the announcement, a seventh individual with close ties with this […]
Just two days after it was officially set up, the Moroccan Central Bureau of Judicial Investigation or BCIJ dismantled on March 22 a terrorist cell that was planning to assassinate military and political personalities as well as civil society activists on behalf of the Islamic State Group. The cell described by the Interior Ministry as […]