Five held in Italian anti-terror raids (Marxist terror group)

[Posinegativeman]

Italian police investigating an alleged cell of a far-left Turkish terror group have arrested at least five people, according to reports.

Around 100 police and carabinieri paramilitary forces took part in raids in Perugia, about 80 miles north of Rome. The town has a university for foreigners that attracts students and tourists from around the world.

There were also unconfirmed reports that suspects had been picked up in Turkey, Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium as part of the same investigation.

The Revolutionary People's Liberation Army is an outlawed Marxist group responsible for a series of bombings and assassinations in Turkey since the late 1980s. It is classified as a terrorist organisation by the European Union and the US state department.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/italy/story/0,12576,1183717,00.html

[David__77]

1. Turkey's left was forced to go underground.

The Turkish fascists carried out a coup over twenty years ago and forced the left underground. It's interesting how this works. There are thousands of armed militants in Turkey, and many thousand more supporters in Europe and especially Germany.