WASHINGTON, Oct. 11 (Xinhuanet) -- The United States on Tuesday put a Moroccan Islamic group suspected of involvement in the March 2004 Madrid bombings on its list of foreign terrorist organizations, the State Department said.

    The Morocco Islamic Combatant Group (MICG) already is on the Terrorist Exclusion List under the Patriot Act, which prohibits its members from entering the United States. It also is on a list of organizations whose financial assets are blocked.

    The designation of the MICG was based on evidence of its role in the Madrid train attacks, which killed 191 people, and the May 2003 bombings in Casablanca, Morocco, in which 12 suicide bombers and 33 others were killed, deputy State Department spokesman Adam Ereli said.

    "The United States calls on governments across the world to take action, as have we, to isolate these terrorist organizations, to choke off their sources of financial support, and to prevent their members' movement across international borders," Ereli said.

    MICG goals include "establishing an Islamic state in Morocco and supporting al-Qaeda jihad (holy war) against the West," according to a State Department publication. Enditem