In a statement broadcast by a private agency Mauritanian information online, Nouakchott Information Agency (NNA), Al-Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) has denied any involvement in the fatal attack April 28 in Marrakech, Morocco . In this text, dated Friday and published in Arabic, AQIM recalls the attack that killed 17 people, including 8 French and then the information released by the Moroccan authorities describing the main suspect as "an admirer of al-Qaida." "We deny any connection with the explosion and say no way being involved in this operation," says the regional branch of the Islamist network.
This statement could not immediately be authenticated but the NIA has regularly published in the past releases or statements from members of AQIM have never been disproved. On Thursday, the investigation had made a major breakthrough with the identification and arrest of three suspects.
On Friday, the Moroccan interior minister, Taieb Cherkaoui, announced that the main suspect had stayed in Libya, before being expelled in 2008, and in Portugal, he was also expelled earlier, in 2004. The suspect, a Moroccan national, and two others arrested "admire Al Qaeda, are imbued with the ideology of Al Qaeda and the Salafist ideology," said Mr.
Cherkaoui. Several hundred people gathered Saturday on the site of the attack to say "no to terrorism" and a demonstration is planned Sunday at the invitation of pro-democracy movement in the kingdom. 
This statement could not immediately be authenticated but the NIA has regularly published in the past releases or statements from members of AQIM have never been disproved. On Thursday, the investigation had made a major breakthrough with the identification and arrest of three suspects.
On Friday, the Moroccan interior minister, Taieb Cherkaoui, announced that the main suspect had stayed in Libya, before being expelled in 2008, and in Portugal, he was also expelled earlier, in 2004. The suspect, a Moroccan national, and two others arrested "admire Al Qaeda, are imbued with the ideology of Al Qaeda and the Salafist ideology," said Mr.
Cherkaoui. Several hundred people gathered Saturday on the site of the attack to say "no to terrorism" and a demonstration is planned Sunday at the invitation of pro-democracy movement in the kingdom.
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