MOROCCO: ISLAMIST TERRORISTS 'COULD TARGET SPANISH INTERESTS'
Madrid and Rabat, 19 April (AKI) - Security at Spanish embassies, consulates and schools in Moroccan cities could be stepped up in the coming days amid fears they could be soft targets for Islamist terror attacks, according to unnamed security force sources quoted by Spanish daily ABC. Security officials are said to be especially concerned to safeguard the Spanish consulates in Tangiers, Rabat, Casablanca, Agadir and Tetouan which are all located in busy central areas, as well as the brand new Spanish embassy in Rabat.
Since the start of this week, student at the Spanish school in Rabat have to show their passport to be allowed on the premises. The authorities in Morocco have however been on alert for some time: after the deadly 2004 bombings of commuter trains in the Spanish capital, Madrid, investigators came into possession of a note signed by a radical Islamist group threatening Spanish interests in North Africa.
Despite fears of a widening conflict stoked by the suicide bomb attacks last week in Casablanca and in Algiers that left dozens dead and hundreds injured, Spain has retained the 'medium' alert level it introduced on 15 February at the start of the trial of 29 suspects for the Madrid train bombings. Most are of North African and many of Moroccan origins.
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