Five Africans arrested in Italy

Published August 10, 2008

ROME, Aug 9: Italian police have arrested four Tunisians and a Moroccan on suspicion of recruiting holy warriors for Iraq and Afghanistan and are looking for a sixth man, also from Tunisia, they said on Saturday.

They made the arrests in dawn raids in the Bologna, Ravenna and Como areas, said police in the university town of Bologna.

All six “are accused of criminal association with the aim of international terrorism, and two of them also of serious fraud to fund terrorism,” Vincenzo Ciarambino of the Bologna crime squad said.

Police said the leader of the group was a veteran of the independence struggle in Bosnia, where many Africans fought alongside Bosnian Muslims.

—Reuters

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