Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Elder of Ziyon
The leader of the cell was a Palestinian Arab named Yahya al-Hindi. He completed his jihadist training, including weapons and explosives training, in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
He tried to enter Morocco five times. The first four times he was denied entry, but then he married a Moroccan woman to make it in successfully in May, 2009.
He managed to build a terror cell of eleven members from different areas of the country.
Authorities in Rabat believe that he thought that Morocco was a great place to recruit members of his cell because of its many anti-Israel rallies held there (euphemistically referred to as "Palestinian solidarity demonstrations.")
His Palestinian origins are not expected to hurt the relationship between Morocco and the PA.
