Rabat- according to accurate intelligence information given by Moroccan security services presented by Directorate General for Studies, Documents and the General Directorate for Territorial Surveillance, the specialized security services of the State of the Greece were able, yesterday, Tuesday, to arrest a 28-year-old Moroccan citizen, who was in position of command in the operational battalions ISIS terrorist organization in its conventional strongholds in the Syrian arena.

A security source knew that the arrest of the suspect gives as a culmination of coordination and exchange of intelligence processes carried out within the framework of multilateral security collaboration, to which Moroccan security interests and its counterparts in Greece, Italy, England and United States of America actively contributed.

The source added that the process of dotting the suspect in the database of International Criminal Police Organization, Interpol, indicates that he was the of an international arrest warrant issued by the Moroccan judicial authorities, on suspicion of his involvement in preparing and implementation of terrorist projects and the perpetration of sabotage operations in Morocco at the instigation of previous spokesman. On behalf of the terrorist organization ISIS.

The same source highlighted that the suspect, who bears the nickname, “Abu Muhammad Al-Fateh”, had joined the ranks of terrorist organization ISIS in Syrian in 2014, before occupying prominent leadership positions in the so-called “special group” in the in the Deir Ez-Zur region, and in so-called “religious police”. Or “Hisbah” in the Wilayat of Raqqa. He had also appeared in a video documenting targeting of a Syrian fighter by a military weapon, while he was in flagrante delicto, threatening to fight the enemies of religion.

According to the available intelligence information about this leader in ISIS, the source added, he was able to escape ISIS fighting places to Syrian towards Europe, especially Greece, using false personal documents and impersonation of an incorrect identity, before he was identified, in his location and his detention in the framework of joint security operation.

He pointed that Moroccan judicial authorities have been notified of the arrest of the suspect, and coordination is currently underway with the competent authorities in Greece through the Interpol office of the General Directorate of National Security, in order to send the official file of the extradition request.

In addition to the same source, this successful security operation to which Moroccan security interests have effectively contributed, it indicates the importance of international security cooperation in combating and neutralizing the dangers of the terrorist threat, and the pursuit of members of terrorist organizations to deprive them of every safe haven or rear base.

This combined process embodies the serious and effective involvement of the Kingdom of Morocco in maintaining security and stability regionally and internationally.

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Almost one month after the Royal Moroccan Armed Forces launched a military operation in Guerguerat, the town hosting the Morocco-Mauritania border, international support for the event has been growing day-by-day.

Of 64 countries which have reacted to Morocco’s military operation to ensure civil and commercial traffic resumption, only four of which have expressed support for Separatist “Polisario” Front’s vandalizing actions.

Those countries include Algeria, Namibia, Cuba, and Venezuela’s illegitimate President Nicolas Maduro’s administration. It is important to note that Nicolas Maduro is neither recognized by the U.S. government nor by the OAS (Organization of American States).

In a letter sent to the King of Morocco, Mohammed VI, Juan Guaidó expressed that Venezuela firmly stands behind the Royal Armed Forces’ peaceful actions conducted on the 13th of last month.

Of those 60 countries supporting Morocco’s actions, 9 are Arab nations, and 22 are members of the African Union.

Support for Morocco’s military operations does not stop there. 16 European nations have expressed their positions on the events of last month. Most of them have either supported Morocco’s actions or called on both parties to have self-control and respect the cease-fire brokered by the United Nations in 1991.

In Asia, Japan has expressed the importance of ensuring freedom of movement of both people and goods through the border crossing. At the same time, Azerbaijan reiterated its support for Morocco’s territorial sovereignty over the Moroccan Sahara.

South America, a continent that has shown a lot of support for the Polisario Front in recent years, has also started shifting support and has since declared its backing of Morocco’s sovereignty over the Sahara. Those countries included Brazil, Colombia, Guatemala, Parliament of Peru, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Grenada, Panama, and Parliament in Saint Lucia.

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