The Roots of Extremism in Morocco

Last Saturday's suicide bombing in Morocco, in which two brothers blew themselves up near the U.S. consulate, has revived fears that Islamic extremism is resurging in the North African kingdom, a close ally of the United States.

The bombings, which injured one woman, were the first since a deadly 12-person suicide bombing in Casablanca in 2003 that killed 33 people in addition to the bombers. Two years later, U.S. News & World Report diplomatic correspondent Thomas Omestad traced 11 of the 12 bombers in that attack to an impoverished shantytown outside Casablanca and examined the genesis of their extremism.