French troops are engaged in a ground battle against Islamist in Mali. Armoured France columns have been massing outside the town of Diabaly along with Malian troops.
Abbas also said dialogue with his rivals in the Islamist movement Hamas was impossible unless they recognise the supremacy of the plo.
Two years earlier Islamist politicians had been outraged by the holding of a wine festival in Meknes, a conservative city at the heart of Morocco’s wine-producing region.
French security adviser seized by Islamist militants in Somalia has told the BBC how he escaped from his captors without a struggle while they slept.
But so far there seems to be no sign that it was on the orders of Hamas, the Islamist movement that controls the Gaza Strip, or any of the other militant groups there.
Israel asserts that it is necessary to prevent weapons from reaching the militants who regularly bombard Israeli towns with rockets from Gaza, which is ruled by the Islamist Hamas.
Arina Rahma had learnt from media reports that her husband, a public affairs worker who used to help her cook and bathe her children, was the most wanted Islamist terrorist in South East Asia.
