“Following the US-led invasion of Iraq on 19 March 2003 there was a dramatic escalation of al Qaeda-linked attacks against European and Jewish targets. On 16 May 2003 suicide bombers killed forty-five and wounded up to 100 in coordinated attacks on a Jewish cultural center in Casablanca [Morocco].”
– Abdel Bari Atwan, The Secret History of al Qaeda, Page 267