Al Jazeera Morocco chief fined for telling lies

After a quick trial at Morroco, current Al Jazeera's Rabat bureau chief Hassan Rachidi was asked to pay US$ 6,000 for misinforming audience during a protest last month. Rahidi wrongly stated protesters were killed by security forces in southern Morroco. " Al Jazeera Morocco...

Press Review 22 January 2008

"Press Review 22 January 2008 Tuesday by Frank Scimone 22-01-2008 Geert Wilders"Wilders, Wilders, Wilders" screams another full-page article over Dutch Freedom Party MP Geert Wilders in today's Volkskrant. This time however de Volkskrant is not reporting about the Dutch...

Pictured girl 'is not Madeleine'

"A blonde girl photographed in Morocco is not missing Madeleine McCann, according to journalists who met her. British and Spanish reporters claim to have traced the girl, pictured being carried on a Moroccan woman's back. London newspaper the Evening Standard says the girl is...

At her majesty's pleasure

"My sins, in brief: When the cabin crew refused to radio JFK to see if I'd left my laptop at the gate and also declined to move me to another seat, "an altercation ensued" -- not physical, but verbal, with the flight attendants becoming snootier by the minute and me becoming,...

Two More Suicide Bombings Rock Morocco

This time the bombers actually detonated on purpose, injuring at least one innocent bystander. It appears that the target was the American Cultural Centre, and that the two bombers were linked to those killed April 10th."Two suicide bombers have blown themselves up in the...

Moroccan gets 15 years for 9/11 role

"A MOROCCAN convicted as an accessory to murder in the September 11, 2001, attacks in the US was sentenced last night to the maximum 15 years in prison. A federal appeals court had convicted Mounir el Motassadeq, a friend of three of the suicide pilots, of the charge in...

Religion of Peace and Tolerance?

"RABAT (Reuters) - A Moroccan court jailed a German tourist for six months for attempting to convert Muslims in the southern resort of Agadir, officials said on Wednesday. The court in Agadir, Morocco's main tourist destination, found the 64-year-old man guilty of trying to...

City said to be terrorist breeding ground

"TETOUAN, Morocco, Nov. 25 (UPI) -- A Moroccan seaport 3,000 miles from Iraq has become one of the world's most fertile recruiting grounds for jihadists, U.S. officials say. In the past eight months a group of young men, all worshippers at the same mosque, have left their...

Al-Qaida 'planted information to encourage US invasion'

"A senior al-Qaida operative deliberately planted information to encourage the US to invade Iraq, a double agent who infiltrated the network and spied for western intelligence agencies claimed last night. The claim was made by Omar Nasiri, a pseudonym for a Moroccan who says...