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By Massimiliano Di Giorgio and Phil Stewart
ROME (Reuters) - Police have arrested a director at Italy’s military intelligence agency on suspicion of helping the CIA in the alleged kidnapping of a terrorism suspect in Milan, officials said on Wednesday.
It is the first time an Italian official has been linked to the 2003 abduction of Hassan [...]
But an analyst in Tehran said a visit to the European Parliament in Strasbourg on the same day by the leader of the outlawed National Council of Resistance of Iran, regarded by the government as a terrorist group, appeared to be the reason.
Maryam Rajavi, who is based in France and whose organization is the political wing of the outlawed People’s Mujahideen armed group, was invited to the legislature by a cross-party group of EU lawmakers who call themselves “Friends of a Free Iran”. “One might think that this didn’t please the Iranians, but it could |
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Palestinian gunmen who seized an Israeli soldier have holed up with him in an underground bunker somewhere in the Gaza Strip, an Israeli newspaper reported on Wednesday.
Quoting Arab mediators, the Yedioth Ahronoth daily said Corporal Gilad Shalit and 7 militants were living off food hoarded in advance to spare the captors the [...]
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