Another Mass Murder Plot in Casablanca

Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 8:01:27 am PDT

Reuters calls the Islamists in this case “suspected bombers.” Even though one of them actually blew himself up.

You never know. He might have eaten some bad cabbage.

CASABLANCA (Reuters) - A suspected suicide bomber blew himself up after police shot dead another overnight during a chase in a Casablanca slum, Moroccan police sources and witnesses said on Tuesday.

Police cordoned off part of Fida, a poor working-class suburb of Morocco’s economic capital, and were trying to trace a third suspect who escaped the police, residents said.

By mid-morning hundreds of onlookers had gathered near the house as a forensic investigation team sifted through debris on the roof terrace where the man blew himself up.

Residents said bomb disposal officers were also called in case the house was booby-trapped or explosives were stored there. Scuffles broke out briefly between news photographers and soldiers who stopped them getting closer to the house.