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Posted on 10/25/2001 2:49:41 PM PDT by kattracks
ROME, Oct 25 (AFP) - An Egyptian man arrested last week in the southern Italian port of Gioia Tauro accused of having links with terrorists was carrying sophisticated communication equipment, Italian police said Thursday.
Rizk Amid Farid, 43, had with him a portable computer, three mobile telephones including one with satellite link-up, and a Thai Airways identity pass giving him access to airports and credit at various banks.
He was discovered hiding in a container at the port last Thursday.
All the explanations given to Italian anti-terrorist police for his possession of such items have so far rung false.
He has claimed that from 1992 to 1995 he worked for the Greek airline Olympic Airways before joining Thai Airways, but both companies have denied his claims.
In addition, the height recorded on Farid's ID is 1.65 metres (five feet five inches), whereas Farid is 1.80 metres tall.
The arrested man also had with him a Canadian passport and a return air ticket from Rome to Montreal via Toronto.
Investigators are trying to establish whether he had an accomplice in Gioia Tauro.
Addresses of parents in Canada supplied by Farid have also proved false, according to checks with Interpol in Ottawa.
Farid claimed that the last call made on his satellite phone was to his mother in Canada, but the number in question does not exist in the country.
Investigators have established that the passport supplied by the Canadian embassy in Cairo last August was a replacement for one that had expired.
Farid explained this by saying that he had settled in Canada in the 1980s and then returned to Egypt at the beginning of the 1990s.
Farid is the first person to be held as a terrorist suspect under a new article of the penal code introduced in response to the attacks on the United States on September 11.
The October 19 decree gives police wider powers and adds a new category to the penal code, making "association with international terrorism aims" a crime.
"I'm actually a pickle." Bzzzzt. Wrong answer.
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do Euro's actually measure people in meters? How silly.
The October 19 decree gives police wider powers and adds a new category to the penal code, making "association with international terrorism aims" a crime.Did you notice this? I think half of our wimpy US congressmen would slit their wrists or die of heart attacks if such a law was proposed here. The truth is, we desperately need it, though!
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explosion in Thailand - Munitions Storage
It talks about a muslim community there that is upset over the Thai gov for assisting the US.
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