By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
A Moroccan court convicted 18 people over a series of coordinated suicide bomb attacks in Casablanca six years ago that left 45 dead, a defense lawyer said Friday.
Saad El Housseini, 38, the chemist who put together the bombs, was jailed for 15 years. Seventeen others received sentences Thursday of between three and 15 years at the court at Sale, near the capital Rabat, defense lawyer Taoufiq M'ssaef said.
Moroccan authorities say El Housseini headed the military wing of the militant Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group. The group, known by its French acronym, GICM, allegedly has ties to al-Qaida and the 2004 Madrid rail station bombings that killed 191 people.
The six near-simultaneous bombings in Casablanca in 2003 killed 45 people - including 12 suicide bombers.
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