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| Terrorism: Italian group 'sought links with oppressed Muslims' |
| 2009-07-16 |
| An Italian terrorist group alleged to have been planning an attack on the G8 summit sought to link its actions with oppressed Muslims in the Palestinian territories, according to a secret document to be published on Friday. The document, to be released in the Italian weekly Panorama, says the left-wing New Red Brigades wanted to "speak" to "proletarians" who they claimed were waging a class struggle in the occupied Palestinian territories and other Muslim lands. "They are fighting against oppression that is always imperialist and class-based, even if they are not conscious of this," the document said. It said the New Red Brigades, an offshoot of the notorious group that terrorised Italy in the 1970s and 1980s, also wanted to contact "proletarians" in Spain's separatist Basque region and in Northern Island, in an apparent bid to revolt and conduct international acts of terrorism. Police reportedly found the document at the home of a former member of the original 1970s Red Brigades, 57-year-old Luigi Fallico. He was among at least five people arrested on 10 June over an alleged plot to carry out a major attack at the G8 summit when it was to have been held at its original location in Sardinia. Prime minister Silvio Berlusconi decided to move the summit to the central Italian city of L'Aquila, to renew international attention on the devastation caused by the 6 April earthquake. Members of the group face several charges including criminal association, terrorism and arms possession after the nationwide arrests which ended a two-year investigation. The New Red Brigades are an offshoot of the Leninist-Marxist Red Brigades, a group responsible for bank robberies and political assassinations in the 1970s and 1980s. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #1 ...sought to link its actions with oppressed Muslims in the Palestinian territories So that would be like, what, all of them? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2009-07-16 15:38 |