Word: dambruoso
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...even after Madrid, Europe has been slow to respond. The office of the European terrorist czar, created after 3/11, has just three employees. "Often we need attacks to get serious," says Stefano Dambruoso, Italy's top antiterrorism magistrate until last year. Until recently, the British were notoriously indulgent of hate-spewing imams and the fanatics who worshipped at their mosques. "It took years to convince the British authorities that they had a significant homegrown Islamic threat," says a recently retired FBI counterterrorism official. "I remember being there in 1999, and one of our guys joked, 'If you don't start...
...Zarqawi has ordered trained operatives into Europe, Beth told a meeting of the German-Atlantic Society in Berlin: "He has experience with poisonous chemicals and biological weapons ... and has become highly active. Something big is in the air." Such apprehensions are shared by Milan's lead antiterror prosecutor Stefano Dambruoso, who told TIME that "the network is beginning to move again. Enough time has passed for them to reorganize and re-establish contacts across Europe." The French too were alarmed. "We're absolutely scrambling here," said a harried top French terrorist judge. "Every light in every service in France...
Muslim extremist activity in Milan was highlighted when U.S. authorities identified the city's Islamic Cultural Institute as the main "station house" for bin Laden's network in Europe. This group is believed to be supplying operatives with false documents, lodging, money and communications. Milan prosecutor Stefano Dambruoso said last week's guilty verdicts were the first since the attacks in the U.S. that "recognized the existence on European territory of a cell that had strong links with a base in Afghanistan." The Milan cell has not, however, been caught with potential weapons, such as the toxins found in Rome...
Ranged against those successes in cross-border teamwork, however, are some fairly spectacular instances of how the European Union?s vaunted freedom of movement has far outpaced judicial cooperation. After the first arrests in Milan last April, Italian prosecutor Dambruoso issued a warrant for another figure associated with the cell, Tarek Maaroufi, referred to in Italian court papers as one of the "spiritual heads of the Salafist Group with a basic function of indoctrinating recruits." But Maaroufi lives in Belgium as a Belgian citizen, and no European Union country extradites its own citizens. The Belgian authorities contend that the Italians...
When asked about U.S. accusations against the Milan center, Italian prosecutor Stefano Dambruoso refused to comment. But an Italian judge familiar with the case questioned the U.S. Treasury report, saying the Americans "either know something we don?t know, and it would be nice if they told us - or else, they?ve reached a hasty conclusion...
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