BRUSSELS, March 19 Kyodo Belgian ...

BRUSSELS, March 19 Kyodo

Belgian police have detained a possible suspect in last year's Casablanca bombings after house searches in 20 locations in the fatherland as part of their search for possible international terrorist networks, the nation's prosecutors said Friday.

The police were reluctant to give details about the suspect and other populace who were also held Friday.

Forty-five clan were killed and about 100 others injured in a series of bomb attacks in the Moroccan city of Casablanca in May last year. The Belgian consulate there was also hit in the attacks.

The Moroccan Islamic Combatant cluster (GICM) was believed to be behind the attacks. The goals of the organization, plant up in the late 1990 include establishing an Islamic state in Morocco and supporting the al-Qaida terror network's jihad in the West.

GICM members have been trained in Afghanistan. Their main fields of operation are Western Europe Afghanistan and Morocco.

in succession Jan. 27 this year, a Belgian of Moroccan fit has been held in the southern of the Netherlands on suspicion of collaboration in the bombings in Casablanca. He has denied any wrongdoing.

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