on the much-maligned "why?" in Casablanca:
Security forces in Morocco have continued their search for potential suicide bombers in Casablanca, a day after two brothers blew themselves up near the US consulate.
(...)Mohammed Vall, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Morocco, who visited the area where al-Raidi lived in a single room with her seven children said: "The slum we visited contained only a few thousand people, but there are many such slums in Casablanca. Several hundreds of thousands of Moroccans live in areas like this and these are a breeding ground, analysts say, for fundamentalists."
(...) In Casablanca's slums, many people are unemployed and families of up to twelve people are left to live in a single room.
(...) "We went looking for the reasons behind what they did and found the details of their arrests, their poor treatment at the hands of the police and the suffering and poverty of living in such a place."
(...) "If there is any relationship with al-Qaeda it is one of influence from distance. There is no proof of any coordination in terms of planning. Even the explosives used are of limited strength, unlike those used this week in Algeria."