Poverty in Morocco

[Bond]

If you want proof that Morocco is poorer than Algeria then here it is:

"Development indicators place Morocco well below neighbouring countries like Algeria and Tunisia. Unemployment is officially running at more than 20 percent. More than 17 percent of Morocco's 30 million live on less than a dollar a day. More than 60 per cent are illiterate. "

Full text is below and here is the link if you want to check it out.

http://www.warmafrica.com/index/geo/.../a/a/artid/231


MOROCCO: Poverty Blamed for Terrorist Attack

22 - May - 2003
CASABLANCA, May 19 - The terrorist attacks that rocked Casablanca, Morocco's financial centre, have been blamed by analysts on deprivation that makes the young vulnerable to extremist propaganda.

"The terror strikes against Morocco are neither an isolated nor an ephemeral act," Hassan Najmi, president of the Moroccan Writers Union told IPS. "They are the result of a dismal economic and social situation."

A group of 14 suicide bombers attacked five locations in Casablanca usually frequented by westerners Friday, killing 41 people and injuring 100 others, the Moroccan Interior Department said.

Three people from Spain, two from France and an Italian were among those who died in the attacks on a Spanish restaurant, a Jewish association, a Jewish cemetery and a hotel in downtown Casablanca.

Najmi, also a member of the Socialist Union of Popular Forces Party (USFP), says the question is what made the young bombers ready to carry out the attacks. "Take a look at the large belts of poverty, illiteracy and ignorance throughout Morocco and you will find the answer."

Development indicators place Morocco well below neighbouring countries like Algeria and Tunisia. Unemployment is officially running at more than 20 percent. More than 17 percent of Morocco's 30 million live on less than a dollar a day. More than 60 per cent are illiterate.

"Morocco must be prepared for more of these acts if nothing is done to improve the lot of its people," Najmi says. "Terrorists will continue to take advantage of Moroccans' poverty and ignorance to lure the youth into their culture of hatred and obscurantism."

No group has claimed responsibility for the Casablanca attacks, but the Moroccan authorities say investigations points to the Attarik Al-Moustakim (The Right Path), a hard-line Islamist group believed to have close links with Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda network.

"All 14 individuals who carried out the attacks were Moroccans," Interior Minister El Mustapha Sahel told the media. Thirteen of the attackers died, and one was arrested.

Mohamed Bensaid Ait Idder, president of the opposition Socialist Unified Left (GSU), accused political parties of failing to politically train the youth. "Political parties have left a vacuum that is now filled by the Islamists," he told IPS.

Twenty-two parties are represented in parliament. But a recent poll conducted by the independent Al-Ahdat Al-Maghribya daily showed that 70 percent of Moroccan youths are not interested in politics or in political parties.

The poll cited "corruption" in political parties and their "failure to live up to promises made in elections" as prime reasons for this lack of interest.

A moderate Islamist party, the Justice and Development Party (PJD), now has 42 seats in the 325-member parliament. Other Islamic parties, including the Adl Wa Al-Ihssane (Justice and Charity), are tolerated but not recognised by the government.

Both the PJD and the Adl Wa Al-Ihssane denounced the Casablanca attacks.

The radical groups are The Right Path and the Salafiya Jihadya, which advocate "holy war against infidels." Abdelwahed Rafiki, leader of The Right Path, once described Osama bin Laden as "a hero."

Mohamed Toza, an expert in Islamic movements, says Morocco's close ties with the United States and Israel "makes it an obvious target for terror attacks."

The North African kingdom is one of the strongest allies of the United States in the Arab world. Home to a significant Jewish community, Morocco has for long sought to mediate between Israelis and Palestinians, and hosted several secret meetings between leaders.

An audiotape released last February and attributed to bin Laden described Morocco as "ripe for liberation."

Several people in Morocco like Ahmed Haddi, a waiter in a Casablanca café, say the U.S. is provoking such attacks through its Middle East policy. "Washington's pro-Israeli policy, its occupation of Afghanistan and of Iraq led to the Friday attacks," he says.

Mohamed Bentaleb, a university student, says Morocco should "reconsider its cooperation with the U.S. to become safe from terrorist attacks. Some day the anger will explode. The Friday attacks are only the beginning."

[NAK__-KKK]

that's all you could come up with ?!?!?! LOL ...keep us entertained you loser ....

[Bond]

Isn't that enough for you, rabid dog? I am sure with a bit of effort even you can find other sources on the net. Just GOOGLE IT YA BGHAL!

[NAK__-KKK]

Originally posted by Bond
Isn't that enough for you, rabid dog? I am sure with a bit of effort even you can find other sources on the net. Just GOOGLE IT YA BGHAL!

all I could read in the article is that algerian people are hungry dirty rats , I have not read the whole thing and of course I never read your garbage ....D: ...keep us entertained you dirty starving algerian rat ...and by the way how is your immigration situation in London ???? are they planning to kick your butts to your $hitt bol country any time soon or not ?!?!?!?!?! you should be deported you starving dirty pickpocket ....go back to collect food from the garbage in your beloved Algeria ... D: ...I cannot stop laughing at you poor scum bag ...

[Bond]

Originally posted by NAK__-KKK

all I could read in the article is that algerian people are hungry dirty rats , I have not read the whole thing and of course I never read your garbage ....D: ...keep us entertained you dirty starving algerian rat ...and by the way how is your immigration situation in London ???? are they planning to kick your butts to your $hitt bol country any time soon or not ?!?!?!?!?! you should be deported you starving dirty pickpocket ....go back to collect food from the garbage in your beloved Algeria ... D: ...I cannot stop laughing at you poor scum bag ...

Just watch your back over there in Toronto, there are plenty of Algerians there who will make sure that your mouth is SHUT, perhaps for good. Hahahahah

If I were you I wouldn't be so proud of being Moroccan: Spain continues to humiliate you over the territory they stole from you whereas your king keeps screwing you.

Soon POLISARIO will laugh at you.

Long live POLISARIO.

[Ma_Li_Ka]

James-o, man cool it down. I don't understand your hostile approach. Do you know that you catch more flies with honey than with vinagre?

Anyway, those dumb Moroccans you are refering too are the ones that helped your fathers fight for independence, side by side with you, against the French.

Maybe they were indeed dumb and they should not have helped you??

I don't know. You tell me?

[NAK__-KKK]

nobody wants any dirty algerians in Canada either ...since they caught the algerian Ahmad rassam with a car loaded with explossive at the border with USA in 1999 , USA is putting a lot of pressure on canada to not take any scum bags algerians anymore , Ahmad Rassam was planning to bomb Los Angeles aireport and he was a refugee in Canada !!!! and to make things even worse for the algeros , theire president Boutef when he came here he told the canadian authorities , there is no more war in Algeria , please deport to me any algerian refugee....LOL ...so you can imagine that the majority of the algerian scum bags who made it to Canada ( mostely with fake passeports they are few thousands in all) are at the best of the cases living with the nightmare of finding themselves one day back in that $hit hole they run from that is Algeria ...so you can fancy if they dare only to open theire mouthes to the moroccans who are here since the third and fourth generations ...and now the latest practise among those algerian refugees sometimes entire families with kids , is that they go to hide inside churches in hope to fight the deportation orders , sometimes it works for them after months of hiding from the police inside the protection of the churches , but it does not work always as the canadian police raid churches whenever they want to and pack the hole $hit and bring it to the aireport...you algerians are really the shame of the moslem community wherever you go , cause nobody ever got this low ...I must add that this practise of hidding inside churches to fight back deportation is also very common in germany .....If your country Algeria is so great as you are trying to let us know , so why is it that each time I turn on the TV there is the story of an algerian family refusing to go back to algeria , and they hide inside the church seeking the protection from the police ...!!!!!! you are just big mouthes , the more you are starving the bigger mouth you got !!! actually I feel sorry for you ...no country in this whole universe is accepting algerian refugees anymore , no matter how much civil war you have ...they know what a bastard race you are all around the globe ....