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Sunday, April 15, 2007

Militants hit U.S. targets in Morocco

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CASABLANCA, Morocco -- Two brothers blew themselves up outside American offices yesterday, marking the third terrorist attack since Tuesday in what bears the hallmarks of a new al Qaeda campaign in North Africa.

The attack yesterday, which injured one woman, followed the self-inflicted deaths of three militants in Casablanca on Tuesday and a pair of suicide car bombings Wednesday in neighboring Algeria that killed 33 persons.

The U.S. Embassy in Algeria warned Americans on Friday to be on guard against further attacks.

The bombings have stoked new fears of Islamic extremism in the two counties, both of which have allied themselves with the United States in its fight against terrorism.

But the attacks yesterday -- one just outside an American cultural center and the other about 200 yards from the U.S. Consulate in Casablanca, were the first to be directed against obvious American targets.

The blasts occurred about 20 seconds apart. The bombers were identified as Mohammed Maha, who was born in 1975 and had no previous record, and his brother, Omar Maha, who was born in 1984 and was wanted in connection with Tuesday's explosions.

Police arrested a third bomber as he tried to flee the scene in a fashionable district of the port city.

"He threw down his explosives belt and ran away. Police chased him and caught him," said the owner of a coffee shop in the neighborhood, who declined to be identified.

A security official told the Reuters news agency that police subsequently arrested the leaders of the group behind the explosions yesterday and Tuesday.

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