Posted on 05/12/2009 1:38:07 PM PDT by knighthawk
The Italian police have arrested two men suspected of planning an attack on the Charles de Gaulle airport near Paris. They are also suspected of planning other attacks in France and Great Britain. The two are thought to play a leading role in the al-Qaeda network.
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Good work by the Italians. One of these plots is going to get through and Europe will see another 7/7-Mumbai. Alas, it will not register here (see Mumbai) in the US for more than the usual news cycles. Stuck on stoopid, the main of Americans are....
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Thank you Jersey 117.
I always appreciate bad guys getting caught before an attack can happen.
"Both have French passports. One is a 63-year-old imam originally from Syria. The other is a 34-year-old French convert to Islam."
UPDATE:
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18/20090512/twl-italy-charges-two-french-al-qaeda-su-3cebad0_1.html
“Italy charges two French Al-Qaeda suspects”
Today, 08:43 am
SNIPPET: “The pair, who have spent the last six months in a prison in Bari, had identified Paris’ Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport as one of their targets and they had also planned an attack in Britain, the agency reported.
The two men were an imam, Bassam Ayachi, 63, a Syrian who had obtained French nationality, and a French citizen identified as 34-year-old Raphael Gendron, said the agency, citing the two investigating magistrates’ file.
According to the file, drawn up by magistrates Roberto Rossi and Francesca Romana, the two men had “planned and organised terrorist attacks and guerrilla actions.”
Equipped with arms and explosives, the two men had also set up a recruitment and training network for militants ready to commit suicide attacks or to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan, the dossier alleged.”
SNIPPET: “The two men had been arrested in November 2008 when they were caught using their camping car to try to smuggle in illegal immigrants from Greece, ANSA reported.”
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Note: AFP via YAHOO news is the source for the information in post no. 7.
GOOD!
Bumping Italy!
Thank you, knighthawk!
Link to conversation transcript here:
http://www.abcnews.go.com/Blotter/International/story?id=7566285
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Note: Photos included.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/026106.php
May 14, 2009
“Jihadists may have plotted terror attack from prison”
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