Word: ladispoli
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Swiss alerted the Italian secret service, which immediately swung into action. In a predawn raid, agents broke into two apartments in the seaside resort of Ladispoli, 24 miles northwest of Rome. There they rounded up seven young Lebanese, all students at the University of Rome. In the apartments the Italian agents found volumes of propaganda for Islamic Jihad, the outfit that claimed responsibility for the Beirut embassy bombing, as well as last year's suicide attack on the U.S. Marine compound in Beirut in which 241 American servicemen died. The agents also discovered a suspiciously accurate plan...
...officials found out about the plot only after the Ladispoli roundup. In gratitude for the deft police work, Ambassador Maxwell Rabb paid a 40-minute call on Rome's chief of police, Marcello Monarca. Said Rabb: "Your country has again demonstrated that it is in the vanguard of the fight against subversive and terrorist elements that stain the world with blood...
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