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.”
Note: AFP via YAHOO news is the source for the information in post no. 7.
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”