Saturday, 5. October 2002
Topic: - on October 5, 2002 at 8:43:12 PM CEST
Italy Arrests Egyptians for U.S. War Cemetery Plot
Italian police said Saturday they had arrested three Egyptian fishermen suspected of plotting to attack a cemetery of American war dead south of Rome. Explosives and maps highlighting the Nettuno American Cemetery and Memorial in the town of Anzio were seized in an apartment in Italy belonging to one of the men, a police official said. "They were preparing a symbolic attack against the American cemetery," the official said, adding police suspected the men were tied to Islamic terrorism.
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