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...predawn raid on an apartment building in a neighborhood six miles southeast of Rome, Italian officials last week arrested four Moroccan men and found dozens of fake identification documents, charts of Rome's water system and a map of the city with the U.S. embassy circled...
ITALY Rome Attack Foiled A police raid on a suburb southeast of Rome may have 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...
...predawn raid netted four Moroccan men and dozens of fake identification documents, charts of the capital's water systems and a Rome city map with the U.S. embassy circled in red. As news of the arrests spread, there was immediate concern that the city's water supply was a terrorist target, with some reports indicating that the terrorists had identified access to the water system under the U.S. embassy on the Via Veneto. But further investigation led authorities to suspect that they had thwarted not an attempt to poison the water supply, but the kind of chemical attack that...
Italian authorities were incensed when news of the arrests leaked out and put a freeze on information related to the case. The Rome-based daily La Repubblica quoted an angry Italian intelligence source: "This affair is damn serious, and some big mouths have blown it. Now we have seven Moroccans who are barely talking, and the big fish are still at large." By the end of the week, an Interior Ministry official confirmed that a total of nine Moroccan immigrants had been taken into custody on suspicion of being part of the Rome-based terrorist cell. But at least...
Idea: Just once, switch the menus of breakfast and dinner. Hash browns and pancakes instead of Moroccan stew and tofu tiles. A pile of scrambled eggs and a hot waffle with coffee and orange juice instead of tasteless chuckwagon corn and a warm glass of Hi-C. All I can say is “Oh, baby...