Do you recall where Rome placed in the AQ timing of attacks?
In my on and off again search of past messages at IH today, I came across a few posts that mention possible upcoming attacks, and a few included Italy. In this post below and others that mention specific nations -- including messages by top al qaeda leaders -- the order of targets is not necessarily followed by the terrorists. For example, Spain was one of a few nations mentioned as a target by usama before Spain was actually hit. Opportunity for execution and ease of planning (meaning: no problems among cell members and no hitches in their work, etc.) likely factors into it.
Here is a small portion of one post and it was posted by casey at IH following the Madrid bombing:
***Coming hitting
And Bakri warned of coming several hitting that recently the Al-Qaeda statements inspired it against Italy and Australia and the United States of America .