Alleged Belgian link to Casablanca bombs
Expatica News, Belgium, 21 May 2003

BRUSSELS – The Moroccan government confirmed Tuesday that international terrorism was behind the weekend's suicide attacks, providing a possible link between Belgian nationals and the bombings.

"We don't know who exactly is behind these attacks," Moroccan Foreign Affairs Minister Mohammed Benaissa was reported as saying in La Libre Belgique. It is possible however that help could have come from Europe, the Belgian daily suggests.

Belgian and Dutch Moroccans, who would have spent some time in Afghanistan, could allegedly have returned to Morocco to train the perpetrators in explosives.

Belgium's federal judiciary has not been informed by Moroccan authorities of the possible link, however.

As the suicide bombers, all aged between 19 and 24, would not have the technical know-how to put the bombs together, investigators suspected possible Taliban links, which subsequently led them to the Belgo-Dutch group.