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Younger jihadists - 12/30/2007 10:28:19 AM

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Casablanca, Morocco - With a greeting that was as telling as it was macabre, Imane Laghriss dropped her satchel on the table of a trendy coffee shop here recently.

"It's stuffed with explosives, watch out!" snapped the young woman, echoing the grim humor commonly heard among Moroccan teenagers. But Ms. Laghriss's remark carried with it a degree of stark reality.

Four years ago, she and her twin sister, Sanae, were arrested for planning to blow themselves up inside Morocco's parliament. They were 14 at the time. The two were sentenced to five years in jail in 2003. After serving 18 months and nearly two years in a juvenile center, they are now free.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20071228/wl_csm/oyounger;_ylt=ArtFZbe5Ykc27lkaH3x0J2us0NUE

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RE: Younger jihadists - 12/30/2007 10:42:55 AM

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Hmmm,...candy bars with strichnine in them?

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RE: Younger jihadists - 12/30/2007 11:34:45 AM

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Casablanca is not what the tourista types would like to believe it is. While it is a large and cosmopolitan city it is also surrounded with slums. The Moroccan economy provides no way to escape these. mine is a professor with 2 high degrees and he makes the equivalent of $350.00 a month there. While all is cheaper there as far as cost of living, he is a government employee and that is his salary after 11 years of teaching.

There are no jobs in Morocco, usually with or without education these days. There is no government sponsored money for higher education or even to buy a student a pen. Morocco has no social programs as it's economy is 20 billion per year. It's a wonder that more of this hasn't gone on than already has though it is still few and far between there.

There are young people who see no hope and no reason to live especially in the large cities containing slums. We aren't talking about anything you could ever see in the US as there is no comparasin. *Some* of these young people, including the 2 20something brothers last year, who would do something like this for the equivalent of a few dollars for their families.

Morocco is by and large an extremely safe place to be, is very open and tolerant and has the same zero tolerance policy on terrorism as the US does including how the citizens feel about it. A side not would be that a Moroccan will tell you that a terrorist is a criminal, not a religious person.

Morocco was the first nation to, in writing, recognise the US as a soverign nation after the US Revolutionary War and we have maintained a friendly and open relationship. There are most likely more homegrown people considering terrorist acts in the US than in Morocco. I will have to check but it was either the Portland Press Herald or USA today who recently had a fascinating story run on the US Morocco relationship.

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RE: Younger jihadists - 12/30/2007 4:53:08 PM

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Oh, young Islamic terrorists? I thought you might have been referring to the various Christian soldiers who move onward over shootouts in the highschools.

But what is there -- racism, paranoia, and rightwing propaganda aside -- that makes you think two, repeat two kids ten thousand miles away is a newsworthy item on some board like this?

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RE: Younger jihadists - 12/30/2007 4:56:37 PM

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Glad to see you read the article.

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RE: Younger jihadists - 12/30/2007 5:05:57 PM

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Morocco is 4,500 miles away by air. These young people are not jihadists and not actual terrorists either as they hold none of the beliefs of the quite sick and criminal jihadists of this day and age. It happens to be newsworthy to me as Morocco is where I live and I just happened to be in Casa when the 2 young brothers blew themselves up last year. I know a member of their family and this was not an act of jihad, try to trust me on that. Morocco is not a terroristic country though, hence closing the border with Algeria some years ago. One cannot even fly from Morocco to Algeria right next door.

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