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Hunt on for 10 suicide bombers CASABLANCA – Moroccan security forces yesterday hunted 10 possible suicide bombers in Casablanca, a day after three suspected militants blew themselves up as they were being chased.

“We are searching in Casablanca for about 10 extremely dangerous terrorists, as they are ready like those yesterday to blow themselves up,” a police source said. On Tuesday, three suicide bombers blew themselves up and a fourth was shot dead as police sought suspects from a March 11 bomb explosion in an internet cafe.The first confrontation occurred when police surrounded a house before dawn on Tuesday in the el Fida district of the city.One suspect came out of the house carrying a sword and wearing an explosives belt.He was shot dead by the police.According to the police version, a second suspect came out onto the balcony of the house and seeing that he was surrounded, blew himself up.* US plans to free ‘monster’ HAVANA – Fidel Castro denounced a US court ruling allowing a jailed Cuban militant who was once a US operative to post bond, accusing the American government of planning to free a “monster.”The charges came in a letter distributed by Foreign Ministry officials after US District Judge Kathleen Cardone refused earlier Tuesday to reverse her decision allowing Luis Posada Carriles to be released.”The answer is brutal,” Castro wrote, referring to Cardone’s initial ruling Friday in El Paso, Texas.”The government of the United States and its most representative institutions have decided the liberation of the monster beforehand,” said the statement, which bore Castro’s signature.The letter was the third in recent days signed by the ailing Cuban leader, who has not been seen in public for more than eight months.Castro, 80, announced July 31 he had undergone emergency intestinal surgery and provisionally ceded his presidential functions to his 75-year-old brother, Raul, the defense minister.Fidel Castro’s medical condition and actual ailment remain a state secret, but he is widely believed to suffer from diverticular disease, a common affliction among the elderly that causes inflammation and bleeding in the colon.Nampa-AFP-APOn Tuesday, three suicide bombers blew themselves up and a fourth was shot dead as police sought suspects from a March 11 bomb explosion in an internet cafe.The first confrontation occurred when police surrounded a house before dawn on Tuesday in the el Fida district of the city.One suspect came out of the house carrying a sword and wearing an explosives belt.He was shot dead by the police.According to the police version, a second suspect came out onto the balcony of the house and seeing that he was surrounded, blew himself up. * US plans to free ‘monster’ HAVANA – Fidel Castro denounced a US court ruling allowing a jailed Cuban militant who was once a US operative to post bond, accusing the American government of planning to free a “monster.”The charges came in a letter distributed by Foreign Ministry officials after US District Judge Kathleen Cardone refused earlier Tuesday to reverse her decision allowing Luis Posada Carriles to be released.”The answer is brutal,” Castro wrote, referring to Cardone’s initial ruling Friday in El Paso, Texas.”The government of the United States and its most representative institutions have decided the liberation of the monster beforehand,” said the statement, which bore Castro’s signature.The letter was the third in recent days signed by the ailing Cuban leader, who has not been seen in public for more than eight months.Castro, 80, announced July 31 he had undergone emergency intestinal surgery and provisionally ceded his presidential functions to his 75-year-old brother, Raul, the defense minister.Fidel Castro’s medical condition and actual ailment remain a state secret, but he is widely believed to suffer from diverticular disease, a common affliction among the elderly that causes inflammation and bleeding in the colon.Nampa-AFP-AP