Posted on 01/14/2004 8:46:14 AM PST by witnesstothefall
ROME -- Italian police have arrested two suspected members of the Red Brigades terror group, including one believed to have been involved in the organization's most notorious act, the 1978 kidnapping and killing of former Prime Minister Aldo Moro.
Rome police on Wednesday confirmed the arrests of Rita Algranati e Maurizio Falessi and said the two were in custody in the Italian capital. No other details were released.
Italian news reports said the two were arrested at Cairo airport in a joint operation by Italian and Egyptian police.
The two, who had been fugitive for years, were carrying fake IDs, and did not resist arrest, the ANSA news agency said.
The two are suspected of being veteran members of the Red Brigades, a radical leftist terror group best known for high-profile attacks in the 1970s and '80s.
Their strikes had died down until an off-shoot claimed responsibility for the killing of two labor consultants in separate attacks in 1999 and in 2002.
The Red Brigades became one of the most notorious terror groups in 1978 when they kidnapped Moro, holding him for two months before killing him.
Algranati is accused of being part of the group of people who carried out the kidnapping and murder.
The Eyetalians arrest them, and the first time somebody takes an Italian hostage somewhere, they turn them loose again.
"The great revolving door of the Italian penal system."
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