A Thousand Pardons
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Thousands pardoned after Princess' birth
RABAT, Morocco, March 2 (UPI) -- King Mohammed VI of Morocco has pardoned almost 9,000 prisoners and commuted more than 24,000 sentences to mark the birth of a daughter.
Those pardoned include 1,365 prisoners under age 20; 278 foreigners; 53 women who are pregnant, breastfeeding or accompanied by their children; 63 who are sick or disabled; and 167 elderly inmates, the Justice Ministry said. Eleven death sentences were commuted, although Morocco has not carried out an execution since 1994.
The jail delivery is the largest since 2005, when 10,000 prisoners were pardoned in honor of the 50th anniversary of Moroccan independence, Maghreb Arab Presse reported. Earlier that year, more than 7,000 were pardoned to mark the circumcision of Crown Prince Moulay El Hassan.
Princess Lalla Khadija, the king's second child and first daughter, was born Wednesday.
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More news below ... which shows that sometimes, "the dog bites the hand that feeds it."
Man blows himself up in Morocco Web cafe
March 11, 2007 CASABLANCA, Morocco (AP) — A man who was prevented from looking at terror websites by the owners of an Internet cafe blew himself up with explosives hidden on his body, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry said Monday. It was possible that the man was transporting explosives that went off at an unplanned moment, said ministry spokesman Abderrahman Achour. Authorities, uncertain about the circumstances of the Sunday night blast in a Casablanca slum that killed the man and injured four, held off describing it as a suicide bombing, Achour said. The official MAP news agency reported two men entered the cafe at 10 p.m. Sunday seeking access to terrorist sites, but the owner's son refused, citing the Surete Nationale police. The dead man's companion was hospitalized with burns and an injury to the throat after the blast, Achour said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press.
Moroccan police have been cracking down on suspected Islamist extremists since suicide bombings in Casablanca in 2003 killed 45 people and woke the North African kingdom to the threat of Islamic terrorism. The dead man was identified as Abdelftah Raidi, who was convicted of suspected terror links and sentenced to five years in prison before being pardoned in 2005, Achour said. Raidi, a Casablanca native in his early 20s, was jobless, he said. Raidi's injured companion was identified as Yusuf Khoudri, from the same Casablanca neighborhood, the ministry spokesman said. The other three people injured in the blast included the Internet cafe owner's son, MAP reported. The injured companion, Khoudri, fled the cafe but was later arrested. Police said Khoudri was drunk when they took him in for questioning, the ministry spokesman said. Khoudri was taken to Mohamed V Hospital in Casablanca, where he underwent an operation on his throat, the ministry spokesman said. Police questioning was limited because of his injury.
Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material
All which goes to show us that pardoning people sometimes backfires. Criminals in the streets ... a safe thing? Go figure.
Thousands pardoned after Princess' birth
RABAT, Morocco, March 2 (UPI) -- King Mohammed VI of Morocco has pardoned almost 9,000 prisoners and commuted more than 24,000 sentences to mark the birth of a daughter.
Those pardoned include 1,365 prisoners under age 20; 278 foreigners; 53 women who are pregnant, breastfeeding or accompanied by their children; 63 who are sick or disabled; and 167 elderly inmates, the Justice Ministry said. Eleven death sentences were commuted, although Morocco has not carried out an execution since 1994.
The jail delivery is the largest since 2005, when 10,000 prisoners were pardoned in honor of the 50th anniversary of Moroccan independence, Maghreb Arab Presse reported. Earlier that year, more than 7,000 were pardoned to mark the circumcision of Crown Prince Moulay El Hassan.
Princess Lalla Khadija, the king's second child and first daughter, was born Wednesday.
© Copyright 2007United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
More news below ... which shows that sometimes, "the dog bites the hand that feeds it."
Man blows himself up in Morocco Web cafe
March 11, 2007 CASABLANCA, Morocco (AP) — A man who was prevented from looking at terror websites by the owners of an Internet cafe blew himself up with explosives hidden on his body, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry said Monday. It was possible that the man was transporting explosives that went off at an unplanned moment, said ministry spokesman Abderrahman Achour. Authorities, uncertain about the circumstances of the Sunday night blast in a Casablanca slum that killed the man and injured four, held off describing it as a suicide bombing, Achour said. The official MAP news agency reported two men entered the cafe at 10 p.m. Sunday seeking access to terrorist sites, but the owner's son refused, citing the Surete Nationale police. The dead man's companion was hospitalized with burns and an injury to the throat after the blast, Achour said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press.
Moroccan police have been cracking down on suspected Islamist extremists since suicide bombings in Casablanca in 2003 killed 45 people and woke the North African kingdom to the threat of Islamic terrorism. The dead man was identified as Abdelftah Raidi, who was convicted of suspected terror links and sentenced to five years in prison before being pardoned in 2005, Achour said. Raidi, a Casablanca native in his early 20s, was jobless, he said. Raidi's injured companion was identified as Yusuf Khoudri, from the same Casablanca neighborhood, the ministry spokesman said. The other three people injured in the blast included the Internet cafe owner's son, MAP reported. The injured companion, Khoudri, fled the cafe but was later arrested. Police said Khoudri was drunk when they took him in for questioning, the ministry spokesman said. Khoudri was taken to Mohamed V Hospital in Casablanca, where he underwent an operation on his throat, the ministry spokesman said. Police questioning was limited because of his injury.
Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material
All which goes to show us that pardoning people sometimes backfires. Criminals in the streets ... a safe thing? Go figure.
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