Morocco has dismantled an Islamist militant cell led by a Spanish citizen that sent fighters to "hotbeds of tension" abroad, the interior ministry said on Friday. Hundreds of fighters from Morocco and other Maghreb states like Tunisia and Algeria have joined Islamist-dominated rebel forces in Syria's civil war and **rth African governments fear they will pose security threats once they return home. The latest cell was active in the **rth of Morocco, in the adjacent Spanish enclave of Melilla and in the city of Malaga in nearby southern Spain, the Moroccan interior ministry said in a statement carried by the official news agency MAP. "The cell was dismantled in coordination with Spanish security forces," it said.
03-25-2014, 01:07 AM
Morocco says breaks up militant cell sending fighters abroad
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