DAR AL ISLAM - MOROCCO: IRAN TRAINED ONE OF THE JIHADISTS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE 2003 CASABLANCA ATTACKS

Morocco: Iran trained one of militants in 2003 Casablanca attacks, police sources

Rabat, 10 July (AKI) - Saad al-Houssaini, a Moroccan militant arrested in March in a police raid on an internet cafe in Casablanca, lived in Iran before the 2003 Casablanca suicide attacks in which 45 people died, according to police sources in Rabat. Al-Hossaini, an explosives expert, is suspected of involvement in the attacks.

The man allegedly left Afghanistan in 2001 after US troops invaded the country following 9/11 and travelled to Iran, where he received training in a camp of the Revolutionary Guards, the Pasdaran, together with Salafite militants close to al-Qaeda.

According to Moroccan police al-Houssaini, who studied chemistry at the university of Valencia in the 1990s, was specifically trained in Iran in the preparation of bombs for suicide attacks.


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