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"Italy arrests 4 for recruiting bombers"
MSNBC ^ | 11/27/2003 | MSNBC News

Posted on 11/27/2003 3:31 PM PST by Sunshine55

"Italian mission in Iraq damaged"

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Nov. 27 — Italy has arrested four immigrants on suspicion of recruiting Islamic militants to carry out suicide attacks in Iraq, judicial sources said Thursday, a day after the Italian mission in Baghdad was damaged by a rocket-propelled grenade.

THE FOUR north Africans were all arrested in the financial capital, Milan, and are expected to be charged with “subversive association aimed at international terrorism.” Italian authorities have issued five arrest warrants, the sources said, and police are still searching for the missing person.

One of the warrants was for a man identified as Abderrazak M. — an Algerian in his 30s arrested by German police this summer in connection with bomb attacks in Spain — but sources could not say whether he was one of the four who were taken into custody Thursday."

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Supreme Leader: US` pro-democracy slogan a "shameful lie"


(RECASTS: ADDs further quotes)
Tehran, Nov 26, IRNA -- Supreme Leader of Islamic Revolution Ayatollah
Seyed Ali Khamenei on Wednesday dismissed as a "shameful lie" the US
pro-democracy slogans and said public opinion in Iraq or any other
part of the world of Islam favors those who brand the US as enemy of
of Islam.


"They (Americans) are in fact against democracy because they
know that reference to public votes in Iraq or anywhere else in the
world of Islam today will prove that Muslim nations would elect those
who whole-heartedly consider Americans as enemies of Islam," said
Ayatollah Khamenei in his Eid-al-Fitr prayers sermons to multitudes of
worshipers here at Imam Khomeini Mosalla prayers ground.


The paramount leader said the US` bloody coups and crimes in
different parts of the world and Washington`s continued support for
dictatorial regimes prove real nature of the US President George W.
Bush`s claims.
Ayatollah Khamenei said that American occupiers have through such
"false" pro-democracy, freedom and human rights slogans put Iraqi
nation in a hard condition, leaving them no option other than campaign
against the occupiers.


Addressing American nation, Ayatollah Khamenei said, "You should
know that your government has through Iraq`s occupation pushed the US
into a quagmire and it further sinks into the swamp day by day."


The Supreme Leader said Iraqi people will resist the imposed
democracy or any other dictated establishment or law.


"The US government should know that it will fail to take Muslim
nations in the Middle East its captive even by raising its military
budget ten-folded because the great, struggling and noble Iranian
nation sets as a symbol for other nations, giving them lessons of
perseverance and prosperity," he added.


Ayatollah Khamenei referred to the case of Palestine and said
despite abundant economic problems and massacre and suppression of
women, children and the youth in the occupied territories, the
defenseless and brave Palestinian nation continues to resist against
the tyrant occupiers by all means under blessing of Islam.
He said ongoing realities in the occupied lands prove that the
Zionists and Americans have been facing deadlock in dealing with
Palestinian nation.


He added that young Palestinian generation has been awakened and
understood from its religious beliefs and sentiments that they have no
way but resistance and self-sacrifice against the occupying enemy.


The Supreme Leader went on to say that the historical
understanding will guarantee Palestinian nation`s undoubted victory
and eventual defeat by the Zionist regime and the US government.


Referring to high turn out at the world Quds day rallies,
Ayatollah Khamenei said the World Quds Day mirrored overwhelming will
of Muslim nations for campaign against the US and Israel.


The Supreme Leader said the great, faithful and united Iranian
nation had proved on the World Quds Day the significance and
importance of its national will in the scene.


He said the Iranian nation had through its powerful and vigilant
defense of the oppressed Palestinian people showed its deep hatred
of Zionists and their American supporters, making Iran and the
Islamic Republic proud worldwide.


Concluding his sermons, Ayatollah Khamenei asked Iranian nation
to massively turn out at the seventh Majlis elections, slated for
March, so as to thwart enemy plots.
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