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  • In Italy, Al Qaeda Turns to Organized Crime for Protection (Terrorists smuggled into Europe)

    10/21/2005 6:11:35 PM PDT · by FairOpinion · 7 replies · 743+ views
    New America Media ^ | Oct. 21, 2005 | Paolo Pontoniere
    Editor's Note: Italian media report that Al Qaeda is moving operatives through Italy on their way to North Africa and Europe with the help of a Naples-based criminal network similar to the Mafia. Italian investigators say Osama Bin Laden's Al Qaeda organization is moving deep into the Mediterranean peninsula's underworld of organized crime. Italian media recently revealed that hundreds of Al Qaeda operatives coming from North Africa are being sent to Northern Europe though a maze of safe houses belonging to the Neapolitan Camorra, a Naples-based criminal network akin to the Mafia. The internationally connected Camorra organization specializes in drug...