[Cindy]

AFTENPOSTEN.no - News From Norway (English)
http://www.aftenposten.no/english

AFTENPOSTEN.no - Search Term: "KREKAR"
http://tekst.aftenposten.no/tekstcgi/tekst.cgi?stdsok=nwaisok&felt2=url&q1=Krekar&q2=english

AFTENPOSTEN.no: "Arabs recruited from Norway to fight in Iraq" (Updated December 18, 2003)

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Italian police suspect that Norway is being used as a recruiting ground for terrorists and insurgents seeking Arab fighters against the USA in Iraq. They believe that al-Qaida and mullah Krekar's group Ansar al-Islam are behind the activities.


The Washington Post reported Wednesday that Italian investigators link al-Qaida and Ansar al-Islam to a network of recruits to Iraq to fight the USA. Besides Norway, Germany and Spain were listed as countries where these groups were active.


Mullah Krekar was interviewed by Italian investigators in Norway on Monday in Oslo courthouse."
http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article.jhtml?articleID=694040

[JustPiper]

Norway one of the best places on earth and so unassuming, so void of security

[Cindy]

adding on to post no. 4173


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1048992/posts

"Italian Anarchists Suspected Over EU Letter Bombs"
Reuters ^ | 12-30-03 | Patrick Lannin


Posted on 12/30/2003 4:30:52 PM PST by Indy Pendance


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1049002/posts
"Italy bans flights over Rome"
UPI via Drudge ^ | 12-30-03


Posted on 12/30/2003 4:56:29 PM PST by Indy Pendance


ARTICLE SNIPPET: "ROME, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- The Italian authorities Tuesday banned flights over Rome until Jan. 6 as a security measure against terrorist attack, the Italian news agency Ansa reported.

This was part of a heightened state of alert in Italy, Ansa said.

On Dec. 24, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi told a local Milan paper that terrorists had planned to crash a hijacked plane into the Vatican on Christmas Day.

The paper published no details, and there was no attack. But Ansa said the alert continues."