The head of the Muslim terrorist network arrested by Moroccan authorities this week is suspected of carrying out the assassination of the president of the Belgian Jewish community in 1989. The Al Qaeda-linked group planned to kill government officials and members of the Jewish community in Morocco. The head of the terrorist gang is Abdel Kader Belliraj, who is accused of carrying out six murders in Belgium, including that of Dr. Joseph Wybran, who was president of the umbrella group of Jewish organizations in Belgium.
Moroccan Interior Minister Chakib Benmoussa's said that the Belliraj terrorist network planned to train in cooperation with Hizbullah in Lebanon in 2005, and several of his terrorists had access to training in manufacturing explosives.