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...thwarted a possible biochemical attack in the Italian capital. Four Moroccan men were arrested after 4 kg of a powdered cyanide-based substance were found in their apartment, along with city maps indicating the U.S. embassy and charts of Rome's water system. The arrests were made as a Milan court convicted four Tunisians, including the alleged al-Qaeda regional head, Ben Khemais, of trafficking in chemicals, explosives and false documents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Watch | 2/25/2002 | See Source »

...chilling conversation recorded last March by Milan police, a pair of alleged al-Qaeda operatives discussed two ways to launch a rudimentary - but deadly - chemical attack. One method, Tunisian-born Essid Sami Ben Khemais boasted to his comrade, required an unidentified "efficient" product that could be stored in tomato cans. When released, it would suffocate its victims. At another point in the bugged telephone call, Ben Khemais refers to a "gas bomb," seemingly a much more lethal device, though apparently just as makeshift...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Second Time Around | 2/25/2002 | See Source »

According to transcripts of the conversation contained in Milan court documents, Ben Khemais said this latter method had recently been refined by a Libyan chemistry professor. "Just a little [money] will do, and it's history," he said. It seems Ben Khemais' boasts were just talk. There were no chemicals or any other potential weapons on the premises when he was arrested in April in an apartment outside Milan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Second Time Around | 2/25/2002 | See Source »

...Khemais, also known as Saber, was convicted in Milan late last week of criminal association with the intent to obtain and transport arms, explosives and chemicals. In January, he was convicted in absentia by a Tunisian military court for belonging to a terrorist organization operating overseas. The conviction and five-year sentence for Ben Khemais, who is suspected of heading Osama bin Laden's European logistics operations from Milan, is the first guilty verdict in Europe related to al-Qaeda since Sept. 11. Three other Tunisians received sentences of up to five years from the Italian court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Second Time Around | 2/25/2002 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Second Time Around | 2/25/2002 | See Source »

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