http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/essayed/ en-us Fri, 25 Feb 2005 18:12:26 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1351045/posts Italy probes possible CIA role in abduction By John Crewdson (Chicago) Tribune senior correspondent An Italian prosecutor investigating the apparent kidnapping of a suspected Islamic militant in the streets of Milan served military authorities this week with a demand for records of flights into and out of a joint U.S.-Italian air base in northern Italy. Italian newspapers have reported that the prosecutor, Armando Spataro, is investigating the possible role of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency in the disappearance of Osama Nasr Mostafa Hassan, better known as Abu Omar, a popular figure in Milan's Islamic community who vanished Feb. 17, 2003.... Yahoo! News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1351045/posts#comment Fri, 25 Feb 2005 18:12:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1075318/posts Intelligence agencies have had some success in tracking suspected al-Qaeda operatives. But the organisation is changing to continue its fight against the West. The West has never encountered an enemy like al-Qaeda before. The problem for the world's intelligence agencies is that it is not a unified organisation with an identifiable structure, like the IRA, but an amalgam of groups around the world whose members embrace Osama bin Laden's ideology of global jihad, or holy war. These Jihadi warriors share the belief that they have an obligation to fight the oppressors of their Muslim brothers, from Palestinians in the Middle... BBC News Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1075318/posts#comment Tue, 10 Feb 2004 18:44:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/907970/posts ROME, May 8 — Investigators analyzing computers seized from an Italian mosque say they have uncovered images of the twin towers that were downloaded just days before the 9/11 attacks, as well as a trove of pornographic photos they believe were used to conceal coded messages. On Sept. 4, 2001, according to investigators, pictures of the World Trade Center were saved as temporary files on one of the computers at the Via Quaranta mosque in Milan — the mosque frequented by Abdelkader Mahmoud Es Sayed, also known as Abu Saleh, an Egyptian currently on trial in absentia in Milan on... ABC News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/907970/posts#comment Thu, 8 May 2003 16:52:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/718497/posts MILAN, Italy (AP) — An Italian judge indicted three North African men Thursday on charges of arms possession and supplying forged documents to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network, a lawyer for one of the defendants said. Nabil Benattia of Tunisia, Yassine Chekkouri of Morocco and Abdelhalim Hafed Remadna of Algeria, were arrested in Milan in November in connection with an investigation of the city's mosque and Islamic cultural center. U.S. authorities have described the center as the main al-Qaida station house in Europe. Benattia's lawyer, Antonio Nebuloni, said all three suspects were indicted Thursday on charges of criminal association, possession... Europe Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/718497/posts#comment Thu, 18 Jul 2002 21:29:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/708461/posts MILAN, Italy — Italian anti-terrorism investigators, poring over hundreds of hours of surreptitiously recorded conversations among members of Europe's most important al-Qaida outpost, say they are convinced a cell in Milan supplied false passports and other bogus documents to al-Qaida operatives who may have succeeded in entering the United States. The absence of any apparent contact between the Milan al-Qaida operation and the Sept. 11 hijackers, who spawned their deadly plot in Hamburg, Germany, could mean that other potential al-Qaida terrorists managed to take up residence in the United States before Sept. 11 and may still be there awaiting a... Chicago Tribune via Seattle Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/708461/posts#comment Sun, 30 Jun 2002 08:14:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/690885/posts Tue May 28, 5:12 PM ET By PIERO VALSECCHI, Associated Press Writer MILAN, Italy - Analyses of wiretapped conversations between a sheik from Yemen and the leader of a Milan mosque have turned up what police now believe are chilling predictions of the Sept. 11 attacks, including a boast of a terrifying operation by a "madman," apparently a reference to Osama bin-Laden. Milan daily Corriere della Sera Tuesday ran excerpts of transcripts of the conversations, which took place in 2000 and 2001 before the attacks. The conversations were between Abdulsalam Abdulrahman, the sheik, who had traveled to Italy, and Abdelkader... Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/690885/posts#comment Tue, 28 May 2002 23:07:45 GMT