Howdy JM.
Good to hear from you and glad you made it through Friday night as well. Scary stuff. I've helped a few people clean up. What a mess a tornado can make! LOL!
Report: Italy arrest 10 in alleged plot
9/21/2004, 3:44 p.m. ET
The Associated Press
ROME (AP) — Italian and Lebanese authorities have arrested 10 alleged terrorists, thwarting plans to blow up the Italian Embassy in Beirut in a car bomb attack, the Italian news agency ANSA said Tuesday.
Plans for the attack were in an advanced phase, ANSA said. Police also seized about 220 pounds of explosives, the Italian news agency said.
The report could not immediately be confirmed.
The arrests were carried out in Lebanon, ANSA said. The suspects, whose nationalities were not immediately clear, were alleged to be members of a Lebanese cell of the Salafist Group for Call and Combat, an extremist organization believed to have ties to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida.
The operation was carried out by Lebanese authorities in cooperation with the Italian military intelligence service, SISMI, according to ANSA.
http://www.nj.com/newsflash/topstories/index.ssf?/base/international-8/1095796444290400.xml&storylist=
Good to hear from both of you - and that you're okay. Snowbirds up north reporting to me they still plan to spend the winter in Florida.