Al-Qaeda planned attacks on Vatican and U.S. Embassy in Rome before September 11th

Corriere della Sera via Babelfish translation ^ | July 10, 2002 | Bianconi and Sarzanini

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Here the plans of the terrorists before the 11 september

"Inspections of To the Qaeda for an attack in Vatican"

ROME - Two months before the attack to the twin Towers of New York and to the Pentagon of the 11 Washington september, the Italian cells of To the Qaeda will receive the order to suspend the activity. The disposition arrived from London, where the investigators think have settled down one of the heads of the terroristic organization of Osama Bin Laden. In that moment already they had been studies three plans to you of attack: to complete in Saint public square Peter, Vatican; one against an American consular objective with a autobomba; one in one church of Venice. The plans are reveal in the informative ones transmitted to you from the Digos of Rome to the magistrates. In documents they are indicates the names to you of fondamentalisti to which had been entrusted the "missions" and are described the inspections of the terrorists, from that one to colonnato of Saint Public square Peter to the visit in the well-known attended veneziana church "from American citizens". The fear of the Anti-terrorism, now, is that to ten months from the 11 september the men of Osama Bin Laden can replace hand to the remained plans inattuati and decides to put them in practical.

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INNER the Digos relationship: the cell has suspended the plans two months before the destruction of the twin Towers. Hour is afraid that the operations can "be scongelate"

To the Qaeda, the plans in order to hit three were already ready object to you in Italy

The targets: Saint Peter, the embassy USA and Venice. "It must make an attack kills"

ROME - the order arrived from Great Britain. And the infiltrated one perceived the policemen of Rome. The news ended in informative "the most urgent one" sent from the Digos to the Power of attorney of understood them the 9 July 2001: "classified it has been learned that in the course of a reunion between you concern to us of the carried out salafita organization of recent to London, has been unanimously decided not to employ in near future for the attainment of objects you of the group the militants object of present surveying". The bureaucratic language of the document defined therefore the "present soldiers" of To the Qaeda in Italy, supporters with the salafita Group for the preech and the combat. And it revealed a precise disposition given from the apex: two months before the attack to the Twin Towers and the the 11 Pentagon of september, the Italian cell came "frozen" and the plans of attacks in preparation course were suspended. Those plans were taking to shape thanks to inspections and assessments carry out to you from the terrorists. An activity that the investigators held under control thanks to the continuous "received tips" from the activated informative net in the previous spring. "of recent it has been learned - law in the Digos relationship of 24 May 2001 - than the Italian salafita cell would be planning a plan, at the moment still in embryonic phase, for the realization of a attempted eclatante terroristic to complete itself to the damages of an American objective in Europe, that is the comparisons of the Vatican". The catastrophe of the 11 september was still unimaginable, but the name of the sheik of the terror already appeared in the classified papers of the police with a role from protagonist. "the group - the relationship continues - than at the moment would not decide in Italy of crews and exploded to you, which could reach little from France or Pakistan before the realization of the attempted ventilated one, it would have ramifications in Afghanistan, much to make to think verosimile that the eclatante gesture is from ascribing to the famous Osama Bin Laden. Analogous logistic initiatives could be in course also in Germany, France, Switzerland to work of the cells dislocated in several States ".

The papers of the investigators are full of names and of "alias". Some of suspect to you are ended in jail, others are repair you to the foreign country, other anchor are resolutions to make to lose the own traces. Now the police of average world are trying to resume in hand the row of that weft in the suspended fear that the plans already studies to you and can be realize to you in the second phase of threatened attack give to the Qaeda. Just yesterday the megaphone of the terroristic net Suleiman Abu Gaith is returned to threaten actions against objects Americans and ebraici all over the world to you. Between the "soldiers" it signals to you in the dossier of the Italian Anti-terrorism detaches the name of Khalifa Mohamed Moussa Ahmed, best known like "Mohamed the Libyan". For the police it is one of the heads of the cell of Rome; the man person in charge from "such Omar of London, exponent of absolute relief of the organization, to carry out cognitive surveyings and inspections aimed you at the verification of the realizability of an attack dinamitardo to complete to the damages of the USA Consulate of Rome or in Saint Public square Peter". In the May of 2001, after to have received the order, Mohamed the Libyan enters endured in action. It comes marked to Venice where "it has entered in a well-known attended church from American citizens and lì it has released numerous photographies". The reunions between the fondamentalisti Muslims are continuous. The terrorist presumed ones plan the possible attacks, it infiltrates to it to you they listen to and they perceive the police. During one of these clandestine encounter, Mohamed asserts: "Peter Would be preferibile to realize an attack in Saint Public square, more suitable objective for the fulfillment of one massacre with the loss of an elevated human number of screw".

The "mission" comes entrusted to Samir Lanani, an Algerian of 28 years, and to Rasool Goulam Chisthi, Pakistani of 58 years, re-entered to Rome in the spring of 2001 after to have worked with regulating allowed in Italy between 1989 and 1992. "Lanani - the informative one of the Digos continues - would have carried out of the inspections near the Vatican. In the first days of this month (May 2001, ndr) the Goulam would have anch' he carried out a inspection in Vatican journeying at first under the colonnato one, stopping itself then for approximately forty minuteren near the Saint Bar situated Peter in via of the Conciliation, and therefore in via of the Grass to the height of the civic one nr.1 ". The informers supply other names. To help "Mohamed the Libyan" and Samir Lanani in the "logistic activities" are an Algerian, called Hicham Gomri. E' only one of the thirty identities supplied from Chihab Goumri, been born to Skikda, in the former French colony, the 27 opens them 1971 in the as many encounter with the Italian police to leave from 1987. The last time that the investigators have gone to find it was 1° past March. In hand they had an order of capture signed from the magistrates roman. The alien is ended in jail with to others five clandestines. All suspect you to prepare an attack against the embassy American in Italy. Goumri is still in cell, therefore like Ahmed Naseer, the Pakistani who managed the mosque To the Harmini, thought from the enquirers one of the centers of recruitment of the combatants.

Here therefore presumed the last ring that alloy the terrorist ones of To the Qaeda characterizes to you in Italy to the net described in the relationships of police of a year makes. Of it it makes part also Hussain Tassadaq, a Pakistani of 35 years, that it has worked with regulating allowed of stay in the store of fruit of the brother in Vittorio public square to Rome.

The informer of the police has reported of a reunion in which Tassadaq proposed: "It must make an attack kills. I am available. The better objective could be the embassy American. I will guide it autobomba ".

In the May of the 2001 Pakistani it knows them on an airplane directed from Rome to Karachi. Two later weeks it is than new in Italy and it announces that you concern us of the organization are planning attacks against objects to you American in Europe. It tells also that "two salafiti militants train to you in the fields of Osama" are disembark to you in the old continent in order to become a member of to the cell of the Group for the preech and the combat. When from London ar river the ord ine to stop the "soldiers" is dunqu and on the point to enter in action. Their devout one ni of at heel is remained inattuati. Tim the hours of the Anti-terrorism it is that, to die us months from the 11 september, someone d ecid to putting them in to tto.

[Shermy]

Eiffel tower, the pope in the Phillipines, etc. Western Euro elites won't wake up until a successful act, unfortunately.