Green Energy
Italy: Plot To Blow Up Milan Cathedral
From Islam in Europe:
Two Moroccans arrested in Italy yesterday wanted to blow up the Milan Cathedral on Christmas. They hoped an attack during the busy holiday would cost dozens of lives. This according to tapped phone calls, reports La Repubblica.
The two belonged to an Islamic terror cell which had been followed by the Italian police already for months. "The plot was discovered yet before the suspects could get explosives," says the Italian minister of Internal Affairs, Roberto Maroni, in response.
Rachid Ilhami (31) and Abdelkader Ghafir (43) were arrested in Giussano, a city 25km away from Milan. The detectives gathered from tapped phone calls and confiscated computer files that the two also prepared attacks on a supermarket and a police bureau. They are arrested on suspicion of terrorism and eventual cooperation with al-Qaeda.
Ilhami had been living since he was ten in Italy. He is married and has two children. He worked as a blacksmith and in his free time worked in a center for peace activities, in the area of prime minister Silvio Berlusconi's villa, according to Corriere della Sera.
Source: HLN (Dutch)
Ilhami is not the first 'peace activist' to plan terror attacks.
-
Italy, Kosovo Police Arrest 4 Jihadists Suspects In Plot Against Pope Francis
"My Time Will Not Be Long" YNET: MILAN – Italian and Kosovan police have arrested four Kosovars suspected of being part of a jihadist cell that spread Islamist propaganda and made threats against Pope Francis, justice officials said on Tuesday. The...
-
Italy: Four Jihadis Arrested In Islamic Plot To Attack United States, Israel And Italy
From Atlas: "Italian police arrest four suspected Islamist militants" Reuters, April 30, 2013BARI, Italy (Reuters) - Italian police on Tuesday arrested four of six men they suspect are members of an Islamist militant cell which was planning...
-
Berlusconi Attacker Apologizes To Premier
Say what you like about Berlusconi (and there's plenty)(c'mon, it's not like we haven't had our share on BOTH sides of the aisle), he's been one of our more consistent allies. He just needs to take lessons on how to duck from George...
-
Italian Police Arrest Six In Terror Raid On "radical Leftists"
From Associated Press:ROME – Italian police arrested six people Thursday in raids on a group of suspected radical leftists who were allegedly planning a terror attack, authorities said.The Interior Ministry said the group was preparing an attack in La...
-
Twelve Arrested In Anti-terror Raids Across France And Italy
Naples, ITALY: Algerian-born Mellouk Djelloul (C) and countryman Chouimet Amirouce (C/top) are escorted by Italian policemen, after being arrested in Naples, 19 April 2006. Djelloul and Amirouce are suspected of international terrorism. Anti-terrorism...
Green Energy
