New arrests of Al-Qaeda related militants reported in Europe, according to the Associated Press:
Police in southern Italy arrested three Algerians Friday on international terrorism charges and accused them of planning attacks in Iraq and Italy, police and the Interior Ministry said.The three were arrested in a nationwide sweep against an extremist group in Algeria, for whom they allegedly provided logistical support, the Carabinieri paramilitary police said.
Officials suspect that they are members of the Salafist Group for Call and Combat, or GSPC, an Algerian group that allegedly provides fake documents to al-Qaida and seeks recruits.
But recently the cell had acquired a new role, said Gen. Giampaolo Ganzer, head of the Carabinieri special forces group that made the arrests.
"They were set to move to Iraq for terrorist actions, also suicide ones, and at the same time they studied more wide-ranging actions on Italian territory" Ganzer told news agency ANSA in quotes confirmed by his office.
In recent years, the GSPC has turned its sights on jihad, or holy war, beyond Algerian borders.
Those poor law abiding Algerian Muslims. Im sure Italian law enforcement violated their civil rights and right to privacy. Talk about racial profiling, we should get the ACLU over there and have them sue the Italian government. That will teach them. After all is that the kind of message the Italian government wants to send the world. This could cause hate crimes against the religion of peace and those who practice it.
And just think, they probably did some illegal wire tapping. We got some people over here we could send right over and straighten this right out. After all we dont want anybodys civil rights violated on the off chance that maybe they could be invlolved in a plot to destroy millions of people.
Thank God for the ACLU and others in this country who are staunchly guarding ALL of our freedoms.
I reread the article and realized it didnt say the accused were Muslim. Shame on me. For all I know they were Methodists or that real wild bunch the Southern Baptists. No doubt a radical cult member of a fringe element group.