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January 12, 2006
Italy: Planned Islamic Terrorist Attack Revealed in Open Court
More murder and mayhem from the Religion of Peace, this time targeting a cathedral: Islamic terrorist plot in Italy revealed
Rome (dpa) - Islamic terrorists planned to blow up a cathedral, two underground stations and a police building in northern Italy, a court in Milan heard Thursday.Zouaoui Choki, a Tunisian supergrass, told judges he was part of a sleeper terrorist cell charged with collecting funds and recruiting would-be suicide bombers. But the group was also planning an attack, which should have been carried out in 2002.
Choki claimed his accomplices planned to blow up Cremona's main cathedral using a green Renault 14 car packed with C4 plastic explosive obtained in Florence. They also planned to carry an attack on two crowded underground stations in Milan and a police building in the same city.
The Duomo di Cremona was chosen as a "symbol of Christianity" and because its central location meant it was "very crowded, particularly in the evening", Chokri was quoted by the Ansa news agency as saying.[...]
Posted by Ruy Diaz at January 12, 2006 2:31 PM
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