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Algerian Terrorist Cell Busted in Italy

Italian officials have arrested 17 Algerians who were part of a "significant" international terrorist cell. The members, spread throughout Italy and Europe, allegedly raised approximately $1.5 million for terrorist activities outside of Europe. For the past three years the group had burglarized and commited theft to raise the funds, which were intended to be funneled to Algeria. The arrested had also made contact with North Africans who are under investigation by European countries. An Italian official that the group had been "dismantled."

Posted at 9:46 PM, Nov 12, 2009
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BOKOBOT

One should take note of the kind of politics in the countries that end up playing host to these cells: Spain under Azner, Italy under Berlusconi. It makes it so much easier for them to hide their brand of hatred in the general malaise of resentment towards neo-con imitators. There is a deep dialectical relationship between terrorism and the most extreme political forms of global capitalism.

BOKO

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