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...Worries of an imminent attack are particularly acute in Italy. A recent poll by the daily Corriere della Sera found that more than 80% of Italians believe that terrorists could strike within months. Since the London attacks, Rome has granted to the military search powers that previously were reserved for police. It has broadened law enforcement's scope by doubling, to 24 hours, the amount of time suspects can be detained and by making telephone and Internet records more accessible to investigators, among other measures. Police will spend more time carrying out raids against terror suspects--authorities made 200-plus raids in one...

A criminal dragnet started by German Interior Minister Otto Schily after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 has failed to round up a single "sleeper" terrorist, according to German ARD television. Despite sifting through 8.3 million pieces of evidence and following up over 19,000 leads, German authorities started only one investigation, which was later closed. The police union reportedly criticized the dragnet, which relied on computer databases, as completely without effect. German has been a focal point of investigation ever since it became known several of the alleged Islamic terrorists that carried out the Sept. 11 attacks in New...

German Interior Minister Otto Schily opened the European Police Congress in Bonn on Monday with a speech that demanded more cooperation and resilience from all sides collaborating in the fight against terrorism. Speaking at the European Police Congress in Bonn on Monday, German Interior Minister Otto Schily demanded more collaboration between European states and their security forces in the fight against international terrorism, calling specifically for an improvement in the flow of information and more concerted efforts in border control. Schily referred to the proposed European database plan where information on terror suspects and their networks could be shared. The...

While millions of protesters were on the street , demonstrating for "No war on Iraq", an internal paper from the German Health Ministry made its way to the press, documenting that the German Secret Service has evidence, that Iraq has illegally produced small-pox viruses. Despite the official direction of the "peace-chancellor Schroeder", the German Health Ministry has started to stockpile more than 70 million small pox vaccinations. According to the German Secret Service BND Several suicide-terrorists trained in Iraq, have already entered the Federal Republic of Germany as diplomats, businessmen or students and are ready to use biological weapons of...

Berlin, April 10, IRNA -- A spokesman of Germany's interior ministry here Wednesday defended the attendance of Interior Minister Otto Schily at a controversial pro-Israel rally in Frankfurt. "The event in which the interior minister will take part, does not support the policy of the state of Israel," Rainer Lingenthal told a news briefing in Berlin, contradicting statements by German Jewish leaders who have called on people to attend the rally, slated for Wednesday evening, to show their solidarity with Israel. "The interior minister will represent the position of the federal (German) government which calls for peace, the balance of...