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...Institute for the Research and Study of Civilization." He says he researches Islam with funds solicited from Muslims in local mosques. "I am a Belgian citizen, and I respect the Belgian law," he insists. Maaroufi has acknowledged that he has visited the apartment of the arrested Tunisians in Milan, and he told Time he had traveled to Afghanistan last November, "but that doesn?t mean I know bin Laden...
Essid Sami Ben Khemais, 33 Tunisian Status: Arrested in Milan, April 3. Thought to be head of al-Qaeda cell in Milan and behind the foiled attacks on U.S. targets in Italy. Investigators taped a series of conversations between Khemais and Libyan Lased Ben Heni, suspected liaison between Milan and Frankfurt cells...
Shaari has been forced to fend off such questions since the U.S. Treasury Department dubbed the Islamic center in north Milan the main station house in Europe for Osama bin Laden?s al-Qaeda network in early October. American officials say weapons, information, money and men have moved through a network of fundamentalists operating in and around the two-story, 400-sq-m center that blends into an industrial neighborhood of abandoned warehouses, low-rise offices and a Fiat repair shop...
...Qaeda operatives in Italy and Germany, suspected of concocting plots to strike French and Italian targets. One of the suspects, a 26-year-old Tunisian named Aouadi Ben Belgacem, was arrested as he walked out of the mosque?s garage exit after an early evening prayer session. The Milan center is also the reported Italian base for Mahmud Abu al-Fatuh Muhammad, whose Al-Shifa Honey Press honey business had its assets frozen this month by the Treasury Department for suspected terrorist links...
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...