[ 24 April 2015 16:08 ]
Baku – APA. Eighteen people have been arrested in Italy as part of an ongoing operation against an al-Qaeda affiliated network, local police said Friday, Sputniknews reported.
Among those detained are persons responsible for “bloody terrorist acts” in Pakistan, the Italian State Police said in a statement.
The “fundamentalist network,” based in Sardinia, was also involved in the smuggling of migrants, police said. Two of the suspects were allegedly part of a group that had been protecting former al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden, killed in 2011.
Arrests were made in seven different provinces of Italy.
