Terror Attack At A Café In Marrakesh

Corrupta est autem terra coram Deo et repleta est iniquitate. (Genesis 6:11)

France 24 reports a bomb blast killed at least 15 people at a café in Marrakesh’s tourist-filled main square of Jamaa el-Fna on Thursday.

State television reported that there were 10 foreigners among the casualties, six of which were identified as French nationals.

This terror attack is likely to hurt Morocco’s tourism trade.

"You can’t find a more emblematic target than Jamaa el-Fna square", said a Frenchman who owns a restaurant in the city.

Halim Saidi, a doctor at Marrakesh’s Ibn Tofail Hospital, said one French national died before reaching the hospital and a second foreigner died while undergoing treatment.

He said 18 of the wounded had been brought to his hospital, including eight Moroccans, seven French, and two Swiss citizens.

A masked speaker, who identified himself as Abu Abdulrahman, said the planned attacks were to avenge the detention of Islamists by Moroccan authorities.

The office of French President Nicolas Sarkozy condemned the attack as "cruel and cowardly", according to BBC News.

"But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be", see Matthew 24:37 - 39.

"Hoc autem scito, quod in novissimis diebus instabunt tempora periculosa", 2 Timothy 3:1.