Morocco jails eight officers on al-Qaeda plot leak
A Moroccan military court has sentenced eight army officers to up to five years in prison for leaking military intelligence information about an al-Qaeda plot, lawyers and court officials said on Wednesday.
The weekly Al Watan Alaan quoted a military intelligence document last month as saying that al Qaeda had decided to send 12 Arab and four Pakistani fighters to carry out attacks in Morocco and other Maghreb states. The Royal Armed Forces Permanent Court in Rabat found the officers guilty of divulging professional secrets and undermining state security. It sentenced them to prison terms of between six months and five years and fined four of them $1,230. (Reuters)
