| Remember, people, it's the job of the reporter to answer the questions Who? What? When? Where? and How? and if the story is a background or analysis piece, add Why? and What does this portend? |
Moroccan police have dismantled a terrorist network that was "active in several towns" of the north African kingdom, the state security service announced Tuesday.
| Noted. Unnamed terror network based in Morocco had been arrested. |
The network included six members who "were planning to commit terrorist acts inside the national territory," the security service said in a statement, without saying when the arrests took place.
| Noted. More than six people have been enjoying the Number Seven truncheon for a while, and possibly even the mustache wax. |
"Within the framework of efforts by security forces to combat terrorism and extremism, these services dismantled a terrorist network of six people imbued with Takfirist ideology...," the statement said.
| "We do not like Takfiris," the statement did not go on to say, "because they lack manners as well as morals." |
The arrests were "recently" made in the towns of Taza and Oujda in northeast Morocco and in Kenitra, 40 kilometres (25 miles) north of Rabat, according to a security official contacted by AFP.
| Aha! Actual towns with names, even if the arrestees as yet have none. |
The "network is also accused of wanting to commit acts of violence against political figures, as well as holding up a bank," said the source, who asked to remain anonymous.
| The anonymous source was no doubt our friend Mahmoud the Weasel, clearly moved up in the world since his time with the Rab of Bangladesh. |
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