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| Osamanauts planned to blow up cathedral, underground station, police building |
| 2006-01-13 |
| 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. The suspect was giving evidence in a trial involving six alleged Islamic terrorists. The trial stems from an investigation that has already led to the conviction of two people on charges of international terrorism. Dozens of suspects have been arrested in Italy on charges of international terrorism in recent years. All but two of them were eventually released by police or acquitted in court for lack of evidence. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #7 The Mole Antonelliana is now a film museum. No real symbolism in blowing up that. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2006-01-13 17:05 |
| #6 The Mole Antonelliana was never actually used as a synagogue. Antonelli was told by the rabbi "we want a building where we can go and pray to God; we don't actually need to go and visit Him." |
| Posted by: Sholuper Angaper8517 2006-01-13 15:21 |
| #5 I thought borgboy's kind of supergrass is actually being grown under lights in secret rooms in American basements? I've read that current varieties of marijuana have significantly (orders of magnitude) higher levels of THC than did that smoked by Baby Boom hippies back in the day. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2006-01-13 14:14 |
| #4 #2. "Supergrass" = leading mexican export after oil... |
| Posted by: borgboy 2006-01-13 13:05 |
| #3 from RB archives 11-15-2005: Supergrass = paramilitary informer - from Northern Ireland |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-01-13 12:18 |
| #2 What is a 'supergrass?' |
| Posted by: Chinter Flarong9283 2006-01-13 12:03 |
| #1 Cremona cathedral is an interesting choice of target. Why not the one in Florence, or in Milan? Maybe they are capable of reasoning that damaging these would provoke too much outrage, particularly among left-thinking people. I've said before on here that the Mole Antonelliana in Turin, a former synagog, is a very likely target, and the Olympics are coming to town very soon. |
| Posted by: Jake-the-Peg 2006-01-13 11:28 |