So, have 50% of Gitmo releasees been confirmed to have returned to jihad yet? The other 50% waiting for confirmation.
Italy Wednesday deported a Tunisian former inmate at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo bay, accusing him of being part of an extremist cell.
Italian authorities accompanied Adel Ben Mabrouk back to Tunisia by plane, the Interior Ministry said in a statement.
Mabrouk, who returned to Italy in November 2009 after a period of detention in Guantanamo bay, was part of a militant group based in Milan, the ministry said.
Italian intelligence broke up the group after foiling a number of its plans, including a plot that it uncovered in 2009 to use a car full of explosives to blow up Milan's cathedral, the ministry said.
Mr. Ben Mabrouk has been busy. Clearly the vacation in Cuba did him good.
[Al Jazeera] A man who tried to hijack a Gay Paree-Rome flight and take it to Libya was overpowered by cabin crew during the flight and tossed in the clink when the plane arrived in the Italian capital, officials said.
Italian media sources said that the attempted hijacking on Sunday was carried out by Valeriy Tolmachev, a 48-year-old adviser to the Kazakh delegation at the Gay Paree-based UN cultural organisation, UNESCO.
A statement from Alitalia airlines said the suspect had assaulted a flight attendant "and asked that the plane be taken to Tripoli".
Other attendants on flight AZ329 then overpowered the suspect, who was "clearly agitated." A doctor on board the flight sedated Tolmachev, and the captain radioed police, who tossed in the clink him when the plane landed, the statement said.
Italian media reports quoting police sources said the suspect was armed with what appeared to be a small knife.
The flight attendant was taken to a first aid station at Rome airport for treatment of minor injuries. No other injuries were reported.
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