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Terror Networks
Security hole dug under US embassy in Rome
2002-02-24
  • Italian police have discovered a hole recently carved into an underground passageway next to the U.S. embassy and suspect terrorists were planning to plant a chemical bomb there. The news came just days after police arrested four Moroccan men in possession of large quantities of a cyanide compound, explosive powder and maps of the water network around the U.S. embassy.

    Immediately after the arrests, police and maintenance staff checked tunnels around the embassy complex that carry water, gas and electricity to buildings in the area and found a hole cut into a wall next to the diplomatic mission. The hole was not there when the narrow channels were last checked in the second week of January. "An attack by an al Qaeda terrorist commando on the American embassy might have been just days away, or even hours away," the leading Italian daily Corriere della Sera said, quoting investigators.
    And we thought Internet Explorer had security holes! That's okay. Just give them light sentences or maybe just pack them back to Morocco. They'll never get out of there by God!
    • Posted by:Fred Pruitt

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