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Saturday, May 17, 2003
posted by gbarto at 1:33 AM:
Here's Fox News on the bombings in Casablanca:Four Bombs Explode in Casablanca; at Least 24 Reported Dead
Interesting. Libé (running with a Reuters wire, see below) says it was five. Casualty counts are agreed on, though some sources are more accepting than others of the Moroccan government's declaration that 10 of the 24 killed were part of the plot.
The FNC story focuses on politics and history, looking at previous Al-Qaeda activity and anti-US anti-war protests before the Iraq action earlier this year. Le Monde has more up-close details. Among them: Car bombs went off outside the Belgian Consulate, the Hotel Safir and the Israeli Alliance Circle. One or two bombs went off outside the Casa España, a restaurant in a Spanish cultural center. An official of the Spanish Consulate is reported to have said that men wearing explosive belts had come through the restaurant. Finally, Le Monde states that most of the injured were Moroccans, not foreign nationals; the dead included policemen guarding a few locations; these, too, were presumably Moroccan.
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