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.
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