Posted on 07/09/2005 9:36:23 AM PDT by NO_2_CORZINE
Italian police have arrested 142 people as part of a two-day anti-terror operation in and around Milan.
One and a half kilos (3.3 pounds) of explosive were found, reports say.
Some 2,000 Carabinieri police took part in the raid, aimed at boosting security at sensitive locations such as underground and train stations.
An internet claim of responsibility for the London bombings threatened Italy and Denmark with similar attacks, but its credibility has been questioned.
Gen Antonio Girone, the regional Carabinieri commander, said security forces had concentrated on Milan because it was a "prime target for possible terrorist action".
Some 7,000 people are said to have undergone preventive police checks.
Partial pullout
Police reportedly raided several Gypsy camps and other deprived areas.
Of those arrested, 83 are said to be non-EU citizens. Deportation orders have already been issued for 52 of them.
"Charges are mainly related to crimes like burglary, theft, evading home arrest and infringement of drug laws," Col Cosimo Piccinno was reported by daily Corriere della Sera as saying after the arrests.
In a separate development, police evacuated part of Rome's Fiumicino airport after a false alarm sparked by an unattended bag earlier this morning.
Speaking from the G8 meeting in Gleneagles, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said Italy would start withdrawing 300 troops from Iraq in September.
But he underlined that the partial pullout had already been announced and that Italy's presence in the region would continue until the Iraqi authorities will be able to replace it with their own security forces.
"Commitments must be met," he said.
Apparently, Italy does not have bullcrap racial profiling laws.
now instead of letting them all go, hang them.
Or concrete boots to the bottom of the Med.
Why does one country have to wait for an attack in another country before taking out the trash? I applaud the Italian government, nevertheless. Maybe the ratholes around the mosques in our urban centers can get a similar treatment, assuming that wouldn't offend the sensibilities of Durbin, Kennedy, Pelosi, et al.
Seems that illegal immigrants are EVERYWHERE....
Time for everyone to get serious about shipping all of them back home -- to their Turd World paradise they wish to impose on the rest of the world...
Semper Fi
They are only letting the ones who had minor crimes go. I dont think they would let the ones who were with the explosives go. This looks like a Crime and Immigration Operation with a Terror Stamp.
The Big 8...(Kennedy, Kerry, Durbin, Hillary, Pelosi, Reid, Conyers, Boxer) Truely are a threat to our National Security.
For a long time Italy has had enormous problems with illegal immigration.
Criminal bands run smuggling rings via Albania and from the North African coast.
I think they will have to keep up these raids for along time as well as a lot of intelligence work to be able to disrupt terrorist attempts - otherwise Milan, Rome or Naples risk being next on the list...
maybe they can borrow some of Saddam's plastic shredders. That seems to be an acceptable method of 'deportation' to leftwing moonbats.
and they thought the mafia was bad.
Do the Gypsies like to hang out with Arabs?
Looks like Silvio is taking advantage of the terrorist attacks to clean up the neighborhood. Better start now: Seven months until the Winter Olympics begin in Turin!
Geez...I really hope nothing else happens. I just let my high school son go play soccer in Spain for two weeks, on the theory that Spains already been hit. Thirteen days and counting.
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