Recruits were to receive weapons and explosives training in Algeria from the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat before going to fight in Iraq or returning to Morocco as sleeper cells .
Combat has since become al Qaida in the Lands of the Maghreb .
Recruits were to receive weapons and explosives training in Algeria from the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat , which has since become al Qaida in the Lands of the Maghreb , before going to fight in Iraq or returning to Morocco as sleeper cells .