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Article: Top Italian anti-Mafia prosecutor says Italian mobsters and Islamic terrorist groups have links
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- April 19, 2004
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FRANCES D'EMILIO, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
04-19-2004
Dateline: ROME
Italian mobsters and Islamic terrorist groups have forged links in arms and drug trafficking, Italy's top anti-Mafia investigator said Monday.
"There are ties without doubt," Pierluigi Vigna, Italy's national anti-Mafia prosecutor, told reporters at a briefing at the foreign press association.
"We have evidence that Camorra groups are implicated in exchange of arms for drugs with terrorist groups," Vigna said. Asked if these were Islamic terrorist groups, he replied, "Muslim terrorist groups."
The Camorra is an organized crime syndicate based in the Naples area that deals in drug and arms trafficking, among ...