News card: Morocco police: Tangier ISIS suspect had TATP and a phone rigged as a bomb trigger

News card from EXE Index. Headline: Morocco police: Tangier ISIS suspect had TATP and a phone rigged as a bomb trigger. File photo from April 2015 by Magreb777, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped: a masked BCIJ officer in black tactical gear stands guard outside the bureau's headquarters in Salé, a stone building flying Morocco's flag; not from the Tangier case. Key facts: a 22-year-old ISIS-affiliated suspect, police say, arrested in Tangier on Oct 9; the lab found TATP, urea nitrate precursors and a chlorate oxidizer; a phone modified to trigger a bomb, plus nails and screws for shrapnel; the BCIJ is investigating under prosecutors, per a DGSN-DGST statement on Oct 16. Sources: DGSN-DGST statement, Morocco World News, le360, Le Matin. exeindex.com/terrorism. Record dispatch:2026-10-16-ma-tangier-tatp. @exeindex. — File, Apr 2015: a BCIJ officer at the bureau's HQ in Salé. not from the Tangier case. Photo: Magreb777, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons (cropped) · CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons); card CC BY-SA 4.0 EXE Index (share-alike from photo)

Oct 16: Moroccan police say lab tests on items seized from a 22-year-old ISIS-linked suspect arrested in Tangier found TATP, bomb-making chemicals and a phone modified to trigger a device. Record

What: News card: Morocco police: Tangier ISIS suspect had TATP and a phone rigged as a bomb trigger
Where: Africa
When: 2026-10-16
Source: Morocco World News
Credit: File, Apr 2015: a BCIJ officer at the bureau's HQ in Salé. not from the Tangier case. Photo: Magreb777, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons (cropped)
License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons); card CC BY-SA 4.0 EXE Index (share-alike from photo)
Details: Africa, Morocco

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Sources and credit

Morocco World News
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