Europeans make anti terror arrests

Reuters/Washington Post:

Seventeen Algerians and Tunisians were arrested across Europe on Tuesday in an anti-terrorism operation led by Italian authorities, Italian police said.

The operation was ordered by Milan prosecutors and targeted the northern Italian cities of Milan, Bergamo, Varese and Reggio Emilia as well as Britain, France and Portugal.

Police said they had seized poisons, remote ignition devices for explosives and manuals on guerrilla warfare.

Police believe the detainees have been setting up "Salafist jihadi" militant cells which have recruited and assisted would-be suicide bombers in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The leaders of the group were named in the arrest warrants as Dridi Sabri, Mehidi Ben Nasr and Imed Ben Zarkaoui, all of whom operated out of Italy, the Italian news agency ANSA reported.

"The cells were not planning attacks in Italy but were indoctrinating and recruiting people to send to places where terrorist attacks are an everyday activity," Giampaolo Ganzer of the Milan anti-terrorism police told a news conference.

The police investigation began in 2003, he said, adding that three suspects were still at large. Police originally said 20 people had been arrested.

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This appears to be a further crumbling of al Qaeda's infrastructure of terror. My speculation is that the NSA has been listening to the communications these guys had with the al Qaeda network in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Hopefully is what too disrupted by the Democrats misguided concern for terrorist rights.

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