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Politics : Idea Of The Day
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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (43602)2/14/2003 4:29:31 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF  Read Replies (2) of 50167
 
An Italian judge Wednesday ordered the release of 28 Pakistanis who were arrested in the port of Naples late last month and accused of plotting a terrorist attack, a foreign news agency reported.

Judge Ettore Favara ordered the immediate release of all 28 because of lack of evidence. State prosecutors had requested that 11 of the suspects be detained. Italian police arrested the Pakistanis during an anti-narcotics sweep late last month and accused them of "criminal conspiracy for terrorist ends".

They said the detainees were part of a "terrorist sleeper cell" that was planning an attack, and said they had found explosives in their apartment.

"In the course of the interrogation the suspects contested the links to any explosive materiel and documents discovered, all of them denied ever seeing this materiel inside the apartment or in the possession of their companions," Favara said.

The arrests caused a furious diplomatic protest from Pakistan. Islamabad's foreign ministry called in the Italian ambassador Angelo Gabriele de Ceglie shortly after the January 30 arrests to protest at the manner in which the immigrant workers had been portrayed in the Italian media.

Pakistani officials told the Italian ambassador that the detained Pakistanis had no terrorist links and that their only motivation was to earn a living in Italy. It said four of them had valid residence permits issued in 1998 and the rest had the required permission to stay in Italy while their applications for work permits were being processed.
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