[Lion's Cub]

Police also found hundreds of forged identity documents, hundreds of cell phones, an index of thousands of international telephone contacts and addresses, and instruction manuals on how to forge identity documents, the statement said.

Methinks this may be a key bust. Let's hope this list of numbers and addresses are for those in the network, and not innocents whose information was used for forged documents.

Just for the record, I doubt that they just happened to get nabbed in an immigration sweep. The more of these major busts we see, the closer we are to the onset of the Iraq offensive, I think.

[aristeides]

Article on this bust in Corriere della Sera says the addresses and contacts could form the basis of further investigations. It also says some members of this cell had been working as street vendors in downtown Naples.