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Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 2:54:58 pm PDT
A would-be mass murderer in Morocco tried to take out a bus full of tourists today, but only succeeded in blowing up himself.
RABAT (Reuters) - A suspected radical Islamist tried to blow up himself near a bus carrying tourists in the Moroccan city of Meknes on Monday but he detonated the gas cylinder he was carrying before reaching it, police sources said.
“The gas cylinder exploded some metres (yards) from the bus and badly injured the attacker,” said one police source. Another source said authorities suspected the bomber was a member of the radical Islamist Jihadia group.
Police sources said the failed suicide attack came after anti-terrorism police stepped up a crackdown on radical Islamists in the past six months, arresting scores of suspected jihadists. “That crackdown move put terrorists on the defensive and destabilised their plots and forced them to commit acts of despair like this one,” a third source added.



