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| Five Afghans nabbed near US Embassy in Vatican |
| 2001-09-25 |
Italian police arrested five men described as Afghans near the U.S. Embassy to the Vatican as part of beefed up security measures in the capital, the interior minister said Monday. State television said the men carried a map tracing a route from a neighborhood where many embassies are located to the boulevard where the main U.S. diplomatic mission is located to the Tiber River, near Rome's main synagogue and Jewish school. ``The five of them had papers on them with some itineraries mapped out,'' said Claudio Scaloja, the minister, who declined to provide other details. U.S. officials at the embassy to the Vatican said the reports were under study but offered no other comment. Interior Ministry spokeswoman Daniela Pugliese said the men ranged in age from 18 to 22 and carried no identification, but did have some papers in Arabic. She said she had no information on how the ministry determined the five men were from Afghanistan. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |