Italy: Subway Terrorist Attack Thwarted

[Dunvegan]

From Sky News: http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1217873,00.html

Subway Terrorist Attack Thwarted
Updated: 10:55, Thursday April 06, 2006

Italian authorities have thwarted planned terrorist attacks on a Bologna church and the Milan subway, according to the ANSA news agency.

Interior minister Giuseppe Pisanu reportedly revealed the plots at a political rally in Sardinia.

[Kellanved]

1. Come on: "revealed" three days before the elections

:boring:

[wake.up.america]

4. Servus aus Österreich. Wie geht's, wie steht's?

[BooScout]

2. The timing sure is convenient.....

Ya think he's been paying attention to how Karl Rove times things?

[BlueManDude]

9. Why do I think that Silvio owns the "ANSA news agency"?

[marmar]

10. He owns pretty much all media in Italy, I think.

This is a big heaping pile of bullcrap.

[stephinrome]

12. no he doesn't own ansa, but just about everything else

There are 6 big tv channels here, 3 private, 3 state owned. He owns all the private channels and as PM controls the public.

He's the major stockholder in the two largest publishing houses responsible for books and periodicals.

His brother owns a newspaper, his wife another.

He owns the largest advertising agency.

And a bunch of other stuff, like insurance agencies and a football team.

But nothing to do with Ansa carrying the story. Many newspaper web sites have this on their home page right now. The left puts it out there as riduculous, the right as proof their doing the right thing.

[maddezmom]

3. Morocco holds nine suspected al Qaeda activists 4/3/06

RABAT (Reuters) - Security forces in Morocco are holding nine suspected al Qaeda activists, whom local newspapers said were part of a ring that plotted bomb attacks in France, Italy and Morocco, state news agency MAP said on Monday.


Morocco has been on alert since 2003 when suicide bombers killed 45 people in Casablanca, the country's financial capital.

More than 3,000 people have been arrested since on suspicion of having terrorist connections. Many have been released but hundreds have been jailed after trials, officials said.

Local newspapers said the nine suspects planned to participate in a larger plot to blow up a church in Bologna and a commuter train station in Milan, the headquarters of French intelligence services in Paris and the U.S. consulate in Rabat.
more;
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060403/ts_nm/securtty_morocco_qaeda_dc_1

[stephinrome]

5. fav photo from anti terrorism exercises in Rome

Last fall there were a series of anti terrorism exercises in several Italian cities. This is my favorite photo from the one in Rome:

Mind you, this is from the La Repubblica web site, one of Italy's best known newspapers. It has not, I repeat, has not been photoshopped.



See the orig here:

http://www.repubblica.it/2003/e/gallerie/cronaca/esercirm/4.html

(sorry, hit the wrong reply to link)

[muriel_volestrangler]

6. Glad to see she still has her high heels on (n/t)

[stephinrome]

8. that was just cruel

You can plainly see from the photo that her shoes were melded on from the blast. ;-)

[0007]

7. Wow! What a tomato!

[marmar]

11. Italians, stylish to the end.

:)