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  • Italy jails two over attack plot

    07/13/2005 4:25:48 PM PDT · by csvset · 4 replies · 311+ views
    BBC ^ | 13 july 2005 | BBC Staff
    Italy jails two over attack plot An Italian court has jailed two North Africans convicted of being part of a cell plotting attacks in Italy. Moroccan imam Mohamed Rafik received four years and eight months, while Kamel Hamroui was sentenced to three years and four months. The court in Brescia also jailed Najib Rouass for 16 months on lesser charges. They are the first convictions in Italy under international terrorism laws that were introduced after the 11 September 2001 attacks in the US. Spanish news agency Efe said Rafik had been linked by the Moroccan authorities to the Casablanca...
  • Italian Authorities Break Up Islamic Cell

    05/09/2004 6:27:33 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 13 replies · 310+ views
    Yahoo! News ^ | 5/9/04 | Frances C. D'Melio - AP
    ROME - Anti-terrorism police arrested the Algerian cleric of a mosque and four Tunisians Sunday in a crackdown authorities said was aimed at preventing an al-Qaida-linked cell from sending suicide attackers to Iraq (news - web sites). The suspects were seized in pre-dawn raids in three cities in the northern Tuscany region, Genoa's Police Chief Oscar Fiorolli said. Genoa, a northern port city, began the investigations that led to the arrests. The suspects allegedly belonged to a cell of Ansar al-Islam, an organization based in northern Iraq with links to al-Qaida, Fiorolli told the Associated Press in Rome in a...