Posted on 12/04/2008 1:04:23 PM PST by Frankusa
Two Moroccans arrested in Italy yesterday wanted to blow up the Milan Cathedral on Christmas.
They hoped an attack during the busy holiday would cost dozens of lives. This according to tapped phone calls, reports La Repubblica.
The two belonged to an Islamic terror cell which had been followed by the Italian police already for months...
Rachid Ilhami (31) and Abdelkader Ghafir (43) were arrested in Giussano, a city 25km away from Milan. The detectives gathered from tapped phone calls and confiscated computer files that the two also prepared attacks on a supermarket and a police bureau. They are arrested on suspicion of terrorism and eventual cooperation with al-Qaeda.
Ilhami had been living since he was ten in Italy. He is married and has two children. He worked as a blacksmith and in his free time worked in a center for PEACE ACTIVITIES, in the area of prime minister Silvio Berlusconi's villa, according to Corriere della Sera.
I don’t know, why didn’t we nke mecca in 2001?
Of the top of your head, you don't know the great cathedrals of Europe.
Maybe. I’ve only been there seven or eight times. And hung over.
Yeah, once they pull down all those statues, many of which are structurally integral, physically carved from supporting walls and turrets.
Won't be the first time. I remember seeing a Cathedral in --- I think it was Alkmaar, Holland? ---- where hundreds of statues of saints were pulled down and smashed -- by Calvinists.
These thrifty folk didn't want to spend the money for scaffolds to get up to the higher tiers and pull down the ones near the roof, so they left them there. Turned the church into a cheese warehouse. The 16th century: not the best of times.
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