ROME, July 21: Italian police on Saturday arrested three Moroccans they suspected of running a ‘terrorist school’ at a mosque, using it to recruit and train militants for attacks abroad.
“We found, and put out of service, what was a genuine terrorist school,” said Carlo De Stefano, head of UCIGOS, a branch of the Italian police that specialises in security investigations.
Police said the imam at the mosque in Ponte Felcino, near the central Italian city of Perugia, and his two assistants had used it as a training camp for international terrorism.
It recruited militants for operations abroad, possibly in Iraq.
Materials seized included films and internet downloads, including instructions on how to fly a Boeing 747.
The interior ministry said a fourth Moroccan they sought was being held in a prison in an unidentified foreign country.
