Al-Qaeda: Italy is Next Target
Politics | July 8, 2004, Thursday
A purported Al-Qaeda statement has threatened attacks in Italy. Photo by AFP
A purported Al-Qaeda statement has threatened Italy will be its next target in retaliation for the policy of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
The statement, written in poor Italian and believed to be by Osama bin Laden, has been published in an Islamist site and included in the evening news broadcast of an Italian TV channel.
To all who speak Italian, starts the statement, written with numerous grammar and spelling mistakes and published together with a text in Arabic.
This is the first time that Al-Qaeda threatened the Italians in their own native language.
At the beginning of July Paris and Rome announced they are taking terror threats against European targets very seriously.
"We're taking these threats seriously," Berlusconi told reporters back then, noting that Italian security forces had 14,000 sites under surveillance.
The statement, written in poor Italian and believed to be by Osama bin Laden, has been published in an Islamist site and included in the evening news broadcast of an Italian TV channel.
To all who speak Italian, starts the statement, written with numerous grammar and spelling mistakes and published together with a text in Arabic.
This is the first time that Al-Qaeda threatened the Italians in their own native language.
At the beginning of July Paris and Rome announced they are taking terror threats against European targets very seriously.
"We're taking these threats seriously," Berlusconi told reporters back then, noting that Italian security forces had 14,000 sites under surveillance.
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