Posted on 11/16/2005 5:45:12 PM PST by csvset
Three Algerians have been arrested in Italy on suspicion of planning a terrorist attack.
The men were detained in Naples and Brescia, and were "potentially operative", police said.
They had contacts with Algeria's Salafist movement, which is believed to have links to al-Qaeda, police added.
Italy has moved before against suspected Islamic extremists, arresting an imam and five other men in June who were suspected of Salafist connections.
A Babblefish translation of an Italian newspaper, (fwiw), stated the three have contacts in Norway.
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