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RABAT, Morocco (AP) - The Moroccan blamed by the Baghdad government for a deadly car bomb attack in Iraq was a top recruiter of foreign fighters, sending militants across the border from Syria and acting as a liaison with European extremists, said a former classmate.
Muhsen Khayber, also known as Abdul Rahim, moved to Syria from Morocco after allegedly being involved in coordinated suicide bombings in Casablanca that killed 32 people, an Iraqi government statement said Tuesday, offering an unspecified reward for his arrest.
Khayber first came in contact with Sunni Muslim extremists while working in his brother's dairy shop as a youth, said Abdellah Rami, who went to high school with Kayber and last saw him about six months before the May 16, 2003, bombings in the Moroccan city of Casablanca.
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