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ITALY A Naples Network Police in Naples arrested 28 Pakistanis on charges of terrorism after finding 800 g of dynamite, 70 m of fuse wire and eight detonators behind false walls in adjoining first-floor apartments, a commander for the Carabinieri police told TIME. Inside the dilapidated three-story building in a Naples neighborhood known for heavy organized-crime presence, several maps were found with the U.S. Consulate and NATO bases in nearby Bagnoli and Capodichino circled. A police spokesman confirmed that officers also found a photograph - circled several times - of Britain's military chief, Admiral Sir Michael Boyce. Also...
...cache of timers, fuses and remote-control devices. According to Spanish Prime Minister José María Aznar, the gang was preparing a chemical attack. Two days before and 950 km away in Badia Polesine, a remote town of 10,000 in Italy's industrial northeast, Carabinieri paramilitary police raided an abandoned farmhouse after monitoring a group of immigrants suspected of holding illegal weapons. No weapons were found, but sniffer dogs located a kilogram of C4, the explosive used in last year's Bali bombing, inside a sock thrown into a dirty-clothes hamper. Five Moroccans were arrested. Later...
From July 1986 until July 1989, Ames served in Rome as a CIA officer at the American embassy. During his posting, he distinguished himself by getting drunk at a reception in the U.S. ambassador's garden and passing out in the gutter, where the carabinieri picked him up and took him to the hospital. In Rome Ames met repeatedly with his KGB handlers. He also bought his first Jaguar...
PADUA: Four imposters masquerading as Italian police freed six inmates from the Due Palazzi prison last week -- making a mockery of the facility's maximum-security status. Permitted to enter by an inexperienced guard, the foursome -- two of whom wore jackets with CARABINIERI written across the back -- snatched keys from the janitor's office, took one guard hostage, tied up 15 others. They then unlocked the cells of six prisoners, including Felice Maniero, an alleged Mafia boss, and his lieutenant, Sergio Baron, both on trial for drug trafficking and armed robbery. Escaping in two cars through an electronically controlled security...
Uncertain about who had jurisdiction, Markus Pirpamer, owner of the shelter, called police on both sides of the border. The Italian carabinieri, believing the body was that of an ill-fated climber, showed no interest. Their Austrian counterparts, who had already pulled eight corpses out of glaciers that summer, said they would investigate by the next afternoon. Pirpamer decided the next morning to go see for himself, and was flabbergasted: "I had seen bodies come out of the glacier," he recalls, "but this was nothing like them. Bodies trapped in the glacier are white and waxy and usually chewed...