56 arrested in alleged terror plot in Morocco

RABAT, Morocco — Security agents broke up a group planning terrorist attacks on tourist sites and government facilities, arresting 56 people who included soldiers and the wives of two pilots at the state airline, the Interior Ministry said Friday.

But while the government trumpeted the roundup, analysts said the involvement of security forces and the pilots' wives in the alleged plot was a troublesome development that showed Islamic extremism is moving out of the North African kingdom's slums and into the middle class.

The sweep was the latest by Morocco's government in an anti-terror campaign that began after the Sept. 11 attacks and intensified following 2003 suicide bombings that killed 45 people in Casablanca and stunned this predominantly moderate Muslim nation.

Police arrest 14 in overnight raids

LONDON — Police have arrested 14 people in anti-terrorism raids, saying today they suspected the men were involved in training and recruiting for terror.

The arrests in London late Friday and early today were not linked to the alleged plot to bomb trans-Atlantic airliners or to the July 2005 bomb attacks on London's transport network, the capital's Metropolitan Police said. They declined to give details of what the suspects were believed to have done.

One of the raids took place at a south London restaurant packed with diners shortly after 10 p.m. Friday, the British Broadcasting Corp. said.

British soldier killed in Afghanistan

KABUL, Afghanistan — An insurgent attack killed one British soldier and seriously wounded another Friday in the latest fighting to wrack southern Afghanistan.

Insurgents attacked the British soldiers in the southern province of Helmand. One militant was killed in the fighting.

Compiled from The Associated Press