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This article was published April 24, 2015 at 07:09.
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A blitz of the state police against a terrorist network of Islamic affiliated with Al Qaeda, with operational base in Sardinia, led to the arrest of 18 people in seven provinces. The organization discovered by men of counterterrorism police prevention preached armed struggle against the West and organized attacks against the government of Pakistan.

Some of the suspects are responsible for numerous and bloody acts of terrorism and sabotage in Pakistan, including the massacre in the city market Meena Bazaar in Peshawar on October 28, 2009, where an explosion killed more ‘than a hundred people. To ensure you were investigators of the Central Service of the police anti-terrorism prevention and Digos of Sassari. From some interceptions that two members of the organization have been part of the network of supporters who protected in Pakistan Sheikh Osama Bin Laden.

The strategy of terrorist acts – say the investigators – was to “intimidate the local population and to force the Pakistani government to give up the contrast to the Taliban militias and the support of US military forces in Afghanistan.”



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