Secret contacts to speed up the building of an American military base in Morocco
Reported on alkhaleej newspaper,
After the attack on the French tourists in Mauritania, American intelligence had intensive contacts with Moroccan intelligence to speed up the secret ongoing negotiations between the both sides to move their military base from Stuttgart in Germany to an American military base in south Morocco.
Sources said that Americans desire to obtain the Moroccan authorities approval, carried to sign a deal selling F-16 aircraft, purchased by Morocco weeks ago.
The Moroccan side offered a place called “Cap Daraa” in Tanttan province in the Moroccan Sahara, an American intelligence Service delegation and a group of technicians visited the area and took aerial-photographs of the area to determine the exact location of the military base to their final report to the Pentagon.
The Americans preferred a Military base with free access to the sea so they can control the flow of arms to their base, Mauritania refused to host an American military base over the territory.
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