Moroccan security services have arrested 11 people accused of plotting attacks in Morocco and Belgium and having links to Iraq's insurgency, the Moroccan state news agency reported Monday, according to AP. The suspects, including a Moroccan living in Belgium, were arrested in the cities of Nador and Fez, the MAP agency reported, citing unidentified police officials. The report did not say when the arrests took place. They are accused of having links to cells sending fighters to Iraq's insurgency and to camps of an Algeria-based militant group that calls itself Al-Qaida in Islamic North Africa. The report said authorities believe the suspects were planning attacks in Morocco and Belgium, without elaborating. In Brussels, Lieve Pellens, a spokeswoman for the Belgian Federal Prosecutors Service, told The Associated Press that her office was «not aware» of the case, and was contacting Moroccan authorities. A Moroccan court is already investigating a terrorism cell dismantled in the northern city of Tetouan and accused of supporting insurgents in Iraq.
