Italian, UK police break up Islamic militant cell
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Italian and British police arrested nine suspected members of a North African Islamic militant group linked to al Qaeda, which had the potential to strike targets in Europe, Italian police said on Thursday.
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POLICE defused a bomb near Premier Silvio Berlusconi&#39;s villa on the island of Sardinia early today following a tip-off from a radical leftist group, shortly after a visit by British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
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Pakistani forces launched an  operation on Tuesday to clear militants from a mosque compound  after talks to end a week-long standoff broke down, the  military said.
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Italian police on Thursday arrested about 10 people accused of supporting an Algerian Islamic extremist group, ANSA news agency reported.
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Police in Naples break up a meeting of Mafia leaders and make seven arrests.
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Italian police said Monday they were carrying out arrests of six Algerians on charges of international terrorism.
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An Islamic militant cell broken up over the weekend had planned a suicide attack in Barcelona, a Spanish judge said Wednesday.
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Spain&#39;s Interior Minister says police have broken up a radical Muslim cell, plotting to bomb the country&#39;s National Court.
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Italian police said on Monday they had smashed an Algerian fundamentalist Islamist cell that gave logistical support to suspected militants in Algeria.
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Police in Milan and London on Thursday arrested four Tunisians who allegedly provided logistical and financial support to an al-Qaida affiliate and who were linked to the April bombings in Algiers that killed 30, Italian officials said.
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BIRMINGHAM, England -- Police foiled a major kidnapping plot, the first of its kind in Britain, with the arrests yesterday of nine terror suspects who reportedly planned to torture and behead a British Muslim soldier and broadcast the killing on the Internet.
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Pakistani forces launched an operation on Tuesday to clear militants from a mosque compound after talks to end a week-long standoff broke down, the military said.
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Italy police defuse a  bomb  near Silvio Berlusconi's holiday villa, hours after a visit by the UK's Tony Blair.
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Italian police say they have broken up a gang suspected of kidnapping illegal immigrants and holding them for ransom.
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Britain lowered its terrorism threat level from the highest category on Wednesday and sources close to the investigation of last week's bomb plot said police now think they have caught the main suspects.
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Yemen said on Saturday its security   forces broke up an al Qaeda-linked cell connected to the foiled   attacks on oil and gas installations on Friday.
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British authorities suspect that a cell of Islamic terrorists where trying to harvest radioactive material from smoke detectors