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• Spanish Police Arrest Suspected ISIS Financier Known as ’The Tailor’
  26 November 2019, by Kamal

  Owner of several textile and clothing manufacturing factories, a Moroccan national, holder of Spanish nationality, was arrested on his return from a several-month stay in Morocco.
  According to the newspaper El español, the one named Noureddine Chiguer is suspected of running a network belonging to the Islamic State Daesh, very active in Spain, Iraq and Syria.
  Arrested near his home in Alicante, the individual is accused of financing the operations of the Organization under the guise of (…)

• Moroccan Security Forces Thwart ISIS-Inspired Suicide Attack Plot in Salé
  27 November 2019, by Bladi.net

  Elements of the Directorate General of Territorial Surveillance (DGST) arrested a 33-year-old individual, an extremist and supporter of Daesh, this Tuesday, November 26, 2019. The arrest took place at his home in Salé as he was about to carry out a suicide attack.
  Another attack thwarted by the elements of the DGST. The daily Assabah, relying on consistent sources, noted that the entourage of the accused did not realize that the latter had adopted the terrorist ideology of Daesh, to the (…)

• Morocco Sentences ISIS Recruiters to 12 Years for Terrorism Charges
  1 December 2019, by Bladi.net

  Sentences of up to 12 years in prison were handed down by the Salé court in cases related to terrorism.
  Among them, two defendants are from Ouled Taima, near Agadir. The investigations revealed that the two defendants had pledged allegiance to the former leader of the terrorist organization, Abu Bakr El Baghdadi. They also praised the terrorist crime of Imlil which cost the lives of two Scandinavian tourists.
  According to the daily Al Akhbar, the thorough investigation revealed that the (…)

• Belgium Receives Two Convicted Jihadist Sisters Deported from Turkey
  1 December 2019, by Sylvanus

  Rahma Benmezian, 31, and her sister Fatima, 24, are two jihadists that Turkey expelled, on Friday, November 29, from its territory to their country of origin, Belgium.
  The two jihadist sisters arrived at Brussels airport by "a regular flight", accompanied by police, according to the Belgian federal prosecutor’s office in a press release. Convicted by default to five years in prison in their country of origin for "participation in the activities of a terrorist group", Rahma Benmezian and (…)

• Belgian Ex-ISIS Fighter’s Return Sparks Controversy Amid Terrorism Concerns
  3 December 2019, by Bladi.net

  Repatriated from Turkey on Friday, November 29, Fatima B., a former Islamic State fighter, was interrogated the next day for six hours by the federal judicial police in Antwerp.
  Fatima B. is "a very fragile, hungry and vulnerable woman, in a depressive state, but was relieved to be back in Belgium". These are the words of Me Lahlali, lawyer of this former ISIS fighter. The latter had been arrested with her sister Rahma B. and both had been convicted in absentia by the Belgian justice (…)

• Belgian ISIS Fighter in Syrian Prison Seeks Repatriation to Serve Sentence
  4 December 2019, by Sylvanus

  Tired of his living conditions in the prison of Hassaké, in Syria nicknamed "the prison of the IS", Abdellah Nouamane alias Abou Jihad al Belgiki, one of the most dangerous Belgian jihadists, would like to return to his country to serve his sentence there.
  "I have Belgian nationality, if it hasn’t been revoked yet. I want to go back to Belgium. I have recognized my mistake, why not get a second chance?"
  These are the words in which Abdellah Nouamane, 24, clearly expressed his wish to (…)

• Morocco and Spain Dismantle ISIS Cell in Joint Counter-Terrorism Operation
  5 December 2019, by Kamal

  As part of the joint efforts deployed in the fight against terrorism, the Directorate General of Territorial Surveillance, in collaboration with the Spanish police, has succeeded in dismantling a terrorist cell belonging to the Islamic State.
  According to a statement from the Central Bureau of Judicial Investigation (BCIJ), the arrest of the 4 individuals, aged 24 to 39, took place on Wednesday, December 4. Three members of the cell were operating from Ferkhana, near Nador, while their (…)

• Moroccan PJD Official Sentenced to 4 Years for Islamic State Ties
  5 December 2019, by Sylvanus

  A local councilor of the rural commune of Sidi Boumoussa near Taroudant was sentenced to four years in prison for his ties to the Islamic State. This is the decision of the criminal chamber of the first instance court in charge of terrorism cases near the annex of the court of appeal of Salé.
  The investigating judge of the criminal chamber in charge of terrorism cases handed down this verdict after elements confirmed the ties of local councilor B. F., a member of the Justice and (…)

• Morocco Dismantles Daesh-Linked Terror Cell, 4 Arrested in Joint Operation with Spain
  5 December 2019, by Bladi.net

  The Central Bureau of Judicial Investigations (BCIJ) dismantled on Wednesday, December 4, 2019, a new terrorist cell close to the extremist organization "Daesh". A total of 4 people were arrested, including one in Spain.
  The members of this cell have adhered to propaganda campaigns glorifying the bloody acts of "Daesh", while intensifying calls for retaliation in response to the death of the presumed "caliph" of this terrorist organization, said a BCIJ statement to MAP.
  According to the (…)

• Morocco Cracks Down on Unregulated Mosques Amid Terrorism Concerns
  8 December 2019, by Bladi.net

  Faced with the resurgence of terrorist cells choosing mosques as meeting places, Abdelhak Khiame, director of the Central Bureau of Judicial Investigations (BCIJ, the central anti-terrorist body), stressed the "need to institutionalize places of worship".
  The latest joint action by the Moroccan and Spanish police led to the arrest of the leader of a terrorist cell on December 5 in a mosque in Melilla, reports the Spanish agency EFE.
  Before the arrest of its leader who resides in (…)